Cobra/Mach/Bullitt brake owners, beware

[darkside03gt]

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.

YES I HAVE THEM. look at the pictures. calm the hell down.

 

[darkside03gt]

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.

here read this maybe it will help.

 

[san~man]

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.

Exactly, but they also locate the caliper to the car. Nothing but those clips hold the caliper to the car. This can happen to any brand of pad, just beware.

I give up already, I'm not wasting anymore of my breath.

 

[Rusty67]

Anywho who is concerned about brakes failing due to brake pad retaining clips or slide pin failure can completely aliviate their fears by geting rid of those stupid floating calipers and moving to a fixed caliper.

A fixed caliper is a superior design performance wise. While they have a set of issues totaly their own, I'd rather deal with fixed caliper BS then floating caliper BS.

 

[twogts4us]

...Sebring...

Anyone who runs Sebring gets my vote - hats off to ya brother!
Sebring has always been known to be brutal on all suspensions parts, including brakes (and the most important part, the driver also takes a beating).
So, did the heat cause the discoloration we see in your pic?

Sweet 500 at glorious Sebring...