Originally Posted by
glenn cooper
and it begins w/ an "S"...
I ran an older Speads DSR in '06, so not sure the problems I encountered w/ braking on that chassis would cross over, but...
The brake rotors were attached to hats that were welded up. It was all quite cobby and resulted in massive runout, like .060, which would push the pads back after traveling about 20 feet, resulting in a pedal that constantly needed to be pumped.
I even disassembled the hats/hubs, whatever and chucked them up in a lathe in order to try to get the things flat, but like I said, they were welded up from many small parts and it was sorta useless.
Does your car have a long pedal (like that car did)? If you are not sure if it is, basically if you push on the pedal super hard, it should not move more than maybe a half inch or so.
Hope that helps, but as someone mentioned previously - Braking is an art!