ITR Mustang

[Ron Earp]

If the calipers eventually show themselves to be truly substandard from a material/design standpoint, would we have any recourse with the powers that be to run anything else? For example, 13" Mustang Cobra brakes? (Geez, I wish!) Sure would help with durability (and heat).

Nope, choose another car.

I don't have any position of power in IT land but alternative equipment is clearly not in the fundamentals of IT. If the brakes turn out to be non-workable, and I seriously doubt that will be the case, then that is, as they say, tough shit.

I'm not discounting your observations on the brakes but there is much R&D to do before passing judgment on them. Early Z brakes didn't work well either until racers had done years of development to reach a tried and true formula.

[RedMisted]

Early Z brakes didn't work well either until racers had done years of development to reach a tried and true formula.

Really? Seems to me that the Z cars I've seen run basic cooling setups like mine. I thought that these cars were able to handle the heat and loads because of their radically low weight.

[Ron Earp]

Really? Seems to me that the Z cars I've seen run basic cooling setups like mine. I thought that these cars were able to handle the heat and loads because of their radically low weight.

Maybe they do in the Midwest, not sure. In the SE with CMP in he racing mix, fluid, cooling hat, caliper duct, pad selection, and lots of brake maintenance are required to make the solid disc Z brakes work well from 2450 to 2575 lbs (240z to 280z).

All I'm saying is there is a lot more to do before you should worry too much.