Typical disc brakes have a solid piece that mounts to the hub, and the caliper body moves from the pressure of one or more pistons.
Fixed are the caliper body is hard mounted to the hub and the pistons alone push the pads onto the rotor.
You get much more even pressure over the pad surface.
I'm pretty sure the rears are sliders. Audi, BMW, and MB all cheap out and put sliders on the rear.
Rears dont ever do much and dont call for waxables. Hell, MOST street cars dont either. The biggest benefit of quick pad changes isnt utilized by 99% of people with waxables anyway
Who cares? They look good and if they offered the option I would pay it just for OCDs sake. It's purely cost cutting and I don't want costs cut on what is theoretically a top tier car.
Detroit wrote:Buy 911s instead of diamonds.
Johnny_P wrote: ↑Thu Feb 09, 2023 3:21 pm
Earn it and burn it, Val.
max225 wrote: ↑Mon May 01, 2023 5:35 pm
Yes it's a cool car. But prepare the lube/sawdust.
Melon2.0 wrote: ↑Thu Jun 13, 2024 11:11 am
Floating calipers are just fine.
Typical disc brakes have a solid piece that mounts to the hub, and the caliper body moves from the pressure of one or more pistons.
Fixed are the caliper body is hard mounted to the hub and the pistons alone push the pads onto the rotor.
You get much more even pressure over the pad surface.
Sometimes that's not good enough.
Detroit wrote:Buy 911s instead of diamonds.
Johnny_P wrote: ↑Thu Feb 09, 2023 3:21 pm
Earn it and burn it, Val.
max225 wrote: ↑Mon May 01, 2023 5:35 pm
Yes it's a cool car. But prepare the lube/sawdust.
Rears dont ever do much and dont call for waxables. Hell, MOST street cars dont either. The biggest benefit of quick pad changes isnt utilized by 99% of people with waxables anyway
Who cares? They look good and if they offered the option I would pay it just for OCDs sake. It's purely cost cutting and I don't want costs cut on what is theoretically a top tier car.
Especially when the prior generations had them AND cost less.
Melon2.0 wrote: ↑Thu Jun 13, 2024 11:11 am
Floating calipers are just fine.
Typical disc brakes have a solid piece that mounts to the hub, and the caliper body moves from the pressure of one or more pistons.
Fixed are the caliper body is hard mounted to the hub and the pistons alone push the pads onto the rotor.
You get much more even pressure over the pad surface.
Rears dont ever do much and dont call for waxables. Hell, MOST street cars dont either. The biggest benefit of quick pad changes isnt utilized by 99% of people with waxables anyway
Who cares? They look good and if they offered the option I would pay it just for OCDs sake. It's purely cost cutting and I don't want costs cut on what is theoretically a top tier car.
I dont; its just a pay to play. adds cost to the vehicle. If you can afford that class of vehicle, go for it.
Desertbreh wrote:
I'm happy for Brad because nobody jerks it to the Miata harder on this forum and that is the Crown Prince of Miatas.
D Griff wrote:
Inserting 'nobody jerks it harder to the Miata than Brad' quote.
Who cares? They look good and if they offered the option I would pay it just for OCDs sake. It's purely cost cutting and I don't want costs cut on what is theoretically a top tier car.
Especially when the prior generations had them AND cost less.
Parked next to a 45th Anniversary Camaro SS this morning. Waxable red Brembros, front and rear. A FUCKING CAMARO.
Detroit wrote:Buy 911s instead of diamonds.
Johnny_P wrote: ↑Thu Feb 09, 2023 3:21 pm
Earn it and burn it, Val.
max225 wrote: ↑Mon May 01, 2023 5:35 pm
Yes it's a cool car. But prepare the lube/sawdust.
Desertbreh wrote: ↑Thu Jun 13, 2024 12:59 pm
Parked next to a 45th Anniversary Camaro SS this morning. Waxable red Brembros, front and rear. A FUCKING CAMARO.
Especially when the prior generations had them AND cost less.
Parked next to a 45th Anniversary Camaro SS this morning. Waxable red Brembros, front and rear. A FUCKING CAMARO.
It's even more of a travesty when you option the $9,000 ceramics. Even that doesn't get you a fixed rear and I don't even know if all the rotors are ceramic. I thought audi was doing something where only the front rotors were ceramic for that option on some cars.
Desertbreh wrote: ↑Thu Jun 13, 2024 12:59 pm
Parked next to a 45th Anniversary Camaro SS this morning. Waxable red Brembros, front and rear. A FUCKING CAMARO.
Camaros are for the poors.
Nothings lacking when you're Cadillacing
Detroit wrote:Buy 911s instead of diamonds.
Johnny_P wrote: ↑Thu Feb 09, 2023 3:21 pm
Earn it and burn it, Val.
max225 wrote: ↑Mon May 01, 2023 5:35 pm
Yes it's a cool car. But prepare the lube/sawdust.
Pro: They offered not unreasonable trade on the orange car.
Pro: Looks like they are a school for crafts, they could really make the orange car nice, teach some kids, and make some money on it
Pro: save trade value of orange car on taxes (~1k)
Pro: save ~10k on price of similar miles / year/ etc ND
Pro (to me): the 'new' is most certainly knocked off
Con: permanent 'equity' hit
Con: Insurance may be more and allstate already said no to rebuilt title, so maybe more difficult as well
Con: Forever questions about quality of repair, straightness, etc.
Con: Insurance is nearly double the non-rebuilt title cars. Effectively will zero out any savings. Probably makes this a pass.
Desertbreh wrote:
I'm happy for Brad because nobody jerks it to the Miata harder on this forum and that is the Crown Prince of Miatas.
D Griff wrote:
Inserting 'nobody jerks it harder to the Miata than Brad' quote.
Truck and the E30 have fixed four piston up front, and single piston floating in the rear.
Cadillac brakes are just insane 380mm two piece rotor upfront, with 6 piston, single piece 340.5mm rotor in the rear, 4 piston with separate parking brake caliper.
Drums in a truck made sense before they all had ABS. Don't need those rears locking up and spinning the fuck out.
Also, drums last a long fucking time, it's odd seeing them in a modern age for sure though. I wouldn't buy a vehicle with drums anymore, unless it was sub $10,000 new (2024 dollars), which doesn't exist in our market.
fledonfoot wrote: ↑Wed Jun 12, 2024 7:44 pm
It’s taken a week for the Miata to get from Tulsa to Charlotte. At this rate I might not see it this week
Out of the loop but did you swap the 86 for a miat?
Oh, no.
I flipped the GR86 for a hefty profit after 6 months. Ended up with a Pro4-X Frontier for a while and after that turned into a bag of shit offloaded it for a 24 Prius Prime.
My purchases go from extreme to extreme, usually. Focus ST to Silverado to GTI to Tacoma to Corolla Hybrid to GR86 to Pro4X to Prius Prime in the last 7 years.
I don’t like money.
Miata replaces nothing and is a second car. Prius is perfect appliance for commuting. So I’ll probably trade that for a Polestar 2.
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max225 wrote: ↑Thu Jun 13, 2024 9:56 pm
Poopstar 2 at 299 a month seems like a no brainer for a throwaway EV
It’s like $340 after tax with $4k out of pocket. I’m just going to burn down the Prius lease. Buyout on it is $19k so will probably buy it because it’s a fantastic appliance and finally did the second car thing to split mileage.
putting the foot down where it matters.
combo
