Brillant idea for the next generation of brakes!

[666fast]

Hey TT, remember Kchrpm from over the the GTF? He works at Delphi, he mentioned this quite a while ago. I'm not sure what, if anything he had to do with it though.

I think it's a pretty cool idea, it'll be a long time before we see it on a car though. The numbers make it seem quite impressive, but I'd like to see it's performance while on a car. Rather than a bench.

[KaBlookie]

yeah, it does look like a really cool idea, and i think if they wanted to they could make it work...i dont think it's quite as odd and complex as it seems. I just don't really think that the idea would take off simply cause of pricing...i'd think that for the price of a system like this you would prolly be able to get a set of brakes that work pretty much as well as this one does, but the conventional brakes would be more simple and have fewer moving parts, which means less of a chance of something going wrong.

they have systems like that available for some r/c cars and trucks (the gas powered ones...electric ones use reverse current to slow down)

[SFDMALEX]

To be honest I had that exact idea for a very long time and I always thought why no one is actually doing this. Its not rocket science.

Anyway nice to see this actually being worked on.

[number77]

sir GT, the problem with your idea (that i see/or think might be a problem) is that the axle is covered. and if you uncovered it to use the brake idea it would be pointless almost. teams would rather not carry the extra weight. and why would you want the mini-pads to clamp down close to the axle? there would be more tq applied to the pad there. if anything you would want them to the farthest away fromo the center of the axle so you could actually multiply the leverage of the brakes. i think thats what you were saying, its kinda unclear.

also, we discussed this subject a wile back over at a car board i'm part of. anyways the only logic i can think of is that in racing if you had brakes like this you would have to have to get new wheels to and such to fit them on (complete re-structuring of the wheel) and even then, you would have to use a bunch on small pistons which might not me as effective as the larger ones.

wheres that dude that works for delphi, maybe he can enlighten us