caffnated_madness
Jazzhands, not jizzhands
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- Back in Wisco
...is a brake caliper?
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you have a sickness
When I'm in working in my garage, I feel like I'm a Rembrandt, or Picasso, working in my element making beautiful things. Then I visit a Buchka thread and realize that I'm a retarded 4-year old attacking a piece of construction paper with finger paints.
Are you going to have to remove that plate bridging the two halves whenever you change pads?
For the record:
towery: if the calipers dont explode on the first hard stop, I'll buy you a coke
buchka: i'm totally holding you to that
wow what the hell dude.
I knew you're really into fabricating your own stuff, but that's ****ing nuts dude.
are those going on your pinewood derby 240?
lol, i think its awsome that your going to build your own caliper and mad props too, But wouldent it be safer to buy a proper cailper?
brembo's are semi cheap(2d hand) and you can find nice wilwoods used for cheap, i saw 6 piston wilwoods at the swap meet with finn for cheap.
look at the left top of the vid. full speed crash due to unusual brake pad wear.
IMHO i would never cheap out on brakes-
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Alright I'm sending you some cad files. Along with carbon, but those two aren't related. I expect said parts to be back by Christmas.
I think his hands are shown 2:1 scale.either you have HUGE hands or it looks a little small to me
I can't wait for the Karl posts in other threads calling people noobs or posers for not machining their own calipers
Btw, the guy in the you posted crashed because he couldn't be bothered to change his brake pads. And he was using commercial (stock) calipers.
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true but the stock cailpers had a unusal pad wear problem.
and i was thinking aboot the cost problem. personaly i like to think my time is worth 65 a hour, so if it took longer then 3 hours to build the cailper it would of been cheaper to get the wilwoods i saw this weekend
all IMHO
Yeah, but then what would you have learned? You might be 3 hours richer but you'd be no smarter than you were yesterday.
Believe it or not (and I don't expect you to understand this), but some people actually enjoy doing this kind of stuff.
i understand, but im not trying to reinvent the wheel.Yeah, but then what would you have learned? You might be 3 hours richer but you'd be no smarter than you were yesterday.
Believe it or not (and I don't expect you to understand this), but some people actually enjoy doing this kind of stuff.