New caliper finish from Baer... - Lateral-g Forums

**Steve1968LS2** · #1 10-20-2009, 11:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Vegas69

Sick.....way better than the red.

I always thought it was called an "Emergency" brake. LOL

Actually no.. I've had several brake companies tell me SPECIFICALLY NOT to call it an emergency brake.. but rather a parking brake.

Why? because if you loose you brakes in an emergency that dinky system is just gonna fry and fail under hard load.

ccracin · #2 10-21-2009, 06:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Steve1968LS2

Actually no.. I've had several brake companies tell me SPECIFICALLY NOT to call it an emergency brake.. but rather a parking brake.

Why? because if you loose you brakes in an emergency that dinky system is just gonna fry and fail under hard load.

Yeah, actually the "E" Brake name was used when we all had drums on the rear. This basically just added a mechanical actuation method to the existing hydraulic brake package. Therefore you had equally poor (lol) braking on the rear either hydraulically or mechanically in the case of a hydraulic failure.

Looks great Steve. Did David do a solvent test on the back side to see how well the new finish stands up to cleaning? That looks like a great improvement.

**Steve1968LS2** · #3 10-21-2009, 08:46 AM

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Originally Posted by ccracin

Yeah, actually the "E" Brake name was used when we all had drums on the rear. This basically just added a mechanical actuation method to the existing hydraulic brake package. Therefore you had equally poor (lol) braking on the rear either hydraulically or mechanically in the case of a hydraulic failure.

Looks great Steve. Did David do a solvent test on the back side to see how well the new finish stands up to cleaning? That looks like a great improvement.

That's a good idea.. but I'm chicken! just kiddin.. when I'm up there tomorrow we will test s few things on an unseen area of the caliper.

Apogee · #4 10-21-2009, 09:33 AM

That's a sexy finish...looks like the caliper was brushed and then plated with electroless nickel. We've made some chromoly brackets for a few vintage racers in the past that we had plated with e-nickel and they hold up really well against corrosive brake dust and fluid

Tobin
KORE3

**tones2SS** · #5 10-21-2009, 09:35 AM

Those look killer Steve! Baer are coming out with some really nice stuff as of late.

(I actually saw the rotors & calipers that will be going on Orange Krate. WOW!! I don't know what model they are, but I am sure they are track tested. They are huge and the quality looks great.)

**Steve1968LS2** · #6 10-21-2009, 10:34 AM

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Originally Posted by tones2SS

Those look killer Steve! Baer are coming out with some really nice stuff as of late.

(I actually saw the rotors & calipers that will be going on Orange Krate. WOW!! I don't know what model they are, but I am sure they are track tested. They are huge and the quality looks great.)

Those are the 6S momoblocks.. same as what Kyle Tucker runs on his '70

They were too big for my car.

**tones2SS** · #7 10-21-2009, 01:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Steve1968LS2

Those are the 6S momoblocks.. same as what Kyle Tucker runs on his '70

They were too big for my car.

Thanks for the info Steve.
Yeah, those suckers are HUGE!

itsals1 · #8 10-25-2009, 06:41 PM

Why the change from Wilwood to Baer? Just wondering.

Travis