Do you even HAVE these brakes? I bet you don't. My experience is true, and I have the parts and damage to prove it. Do you?
If you do have these brakes, you better go out and look at them more closely and take a minute to learn from MY experience.
If you don't have these brakes, then go sit your ass back in the corner and keep your uniformed comments to yourself.
All the braking force is transfered through the pad into the caliper bracket. Under normal circumstances there is very little force on the actual caliper. All the pad clips do is keep the caliper in place basically.
The friction material of the pad pushes against the backing plate and that is transfered to the front of the caliper bracket opposite the pin.
That's typical of most brake setups, except most like the 99-04 PBR on the GT also bolt the caliper to the caliper bracket as well. The cobra design PBR doesn't mount at all. It truely floats!
The caliper has been around sine the 80's firct used on the C4 vette. It works well. The pad clips falling off are more an indicator of bad parts manufacturing really.
I do see what you are saying. If the round spring clips came off the pads it could let the calipers float up. This is the first I've ever heard of it happening. The actual braking forces are applied to the caliper bracket at the pad ears. The spring clips just locate the calipers to the pads.
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