Has anyone seen the brake caliper,set up in front of disc instead of the usual placement .... Is this safe.
I believe that as long as you keep the bleeder port on the top, and your flex lines clear everything that moves, it shouldn't make any difference. 4TTRUK
Yep, some cars come out with them on the front. Doesn't effect it at all, might just have to swap left and right calipers over to have the bleeder on top as mentioned above.
Some manufacturers like leading calipers (in front of the axle, front or rear), some like trailing calipers (behind the axle). It just depends on where their suspension design leaves them room to put the caliper. Note that many modern multipiston calipers have staggered caliper bores, where the piston sizes vary, so in general you cannot swap these calipers from side-to-side to move the bleeder screw to the top without causing yourself pad-wear problems; typically the bleeder screws will swap places with the transfer tube. Not completely HAMB-material, but this is an '05 Porsche Cayenne caliper (RH leading in the Porsche application, RH trailing for my '64 Galaxie...) with the bleeder screws and transfer tube swapped.
you can run bleeders on bottom i do it all the time on bikes you just have to take caliper off and hang upside down stick a peice of wood or what ever between pads when bleeding when done push pucks back and install
Being able to stop your car as fast as all of the other cars on the road, without hitting them, is traditional.
Where I work I see front and rear mounted calipers on front rotors are used. Should work. Why do the bleeders have to up? Jus askin
Mechanical brakes adjusted and set properly will stop a hot rod just as fast as modern cars. Anyone who has done it correctly knows this.
The cylinder of my disk brakes is right at the top. I hope they are traditional enough for this website. .
If you read what he wrote it was his way of giving a simple explanation to the question including a disclaimer stating that it was not HAMB Friendly. Some times the "Trad police" are more interested in being ***holes than they are in seeing what the posters intent was.
X2...And I'd bet he didn't know what the other red brakes [post #18] are; which probably raised a bunch of eyebrows!!!
I had occasion a few years back to watch a couple Type 35 Bugattis go around Laguna Seca at a pretty astounding pace. Of course, I also recall my mother's stories about driving her family's '36 Ford to high school, in winter thawing out the brake linkage with a blowtorch before going anywhere...
I have to ask though: do Kinmont brakes have any benefits other than novelty? That in itself can be enough as long as they work as well as a drum, I guess, but they're one of those things that came and went overnight. Speaking of stuff that came and went, I thought (very briefly) about swapping discs onto the '37 Chevy Dubonnet front suspension I'm working with for the project-after-the-next but concluded I'd stick with the Huck drums, we'll see what it takes to put Huck rear backing plates on a Ford 9in... Another oddball disc design (though not so much so as the Kinmonts) and decidedly non-HAMBable so I'll just post a link for the technically curious: http://ranwhenparked.net/2009/11/17/what-lies-beneath-audi-ufo-brakes/
Keep living the dream, brother. I live in the land of the billionaire driving the super-car. I can't afford to carry enough insurance to cover rear-ending a $300,000 car, with a lawyered-up multi-millionaire, or billionaire at the wheel, with 24-pistons gripping giant discs, managed by ABS, digital stability control, and abundantly poor driving skills.
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