BRAKING BETTER – IMPROVE YOUR JEEP’S BRAKE PERFORMANCE

Improve Your Jeeps Brake Performance. Brakes are an often-overlooked component on Jeeps, but they shouldn’t be. Along with steering, brakes are the most critical component on any vehicle driven on the street. We often upgrade steering systems with hydraulic ram assist and heavy-duty tie rods, but the braking system is ignored.

Improve Your Jeeps Brake Performance with Large Rotors

Larger rotors and calipers to Improve Your Jeep’s Brake Performance are often part of an upgrade to one-ton axles, where the goal is increased strength to live with large tires. Brakes are a system though, and larger calipers often require a different master cylinder that moves more fluid, along with the proper booster, residual valve, and pedal ratio.

That was more than we were looking for on our LJ Rubicon project, though. We just wanted to regain some braking power that was lost when we upgraded to 35-inch Toyo Open Country M/Ts on AEV Pintler wheels. You may recall (“What concessions are made when adding big tires?”) that the new tire and wheel combo is 40 pounds heavier at each corner, and that extra rotating weight increased our 60-0 braking distance from 137 feet to 218 feet. That extra distance is equal to at least a couple of busses full of nuns.

Fortunately, EBC had a solution (as it does with a number of Jeep models) with its high performance replacement Heavy Duty Orange brake pads and Ultimax USR slotted rotors. The Heavy Duty Orange pads have increased friction when compared to stock pads, with a broad temperature range for safe stopping in a wide variety of conditions—or, in our case, stopping big, heavy mud-terrain tires.

The Ultimax USR rotors are made from high-quality grey iron to exacting standards and slotted to provide improved out gassing and keep the pads from glazing. The discs come with a long-lasting corrosion-resistant Nitrotherm coating that uses warm nitrogen to produce the black finish.

While the finish is swept away from the rotor surface, it does an excellent job keeping the rest of the rotor corrosion free, particularly where the wheels bolt on to the brakes.

The EBC parts bolted on easily in under an hour with minimal tools. The hardest part was getting the 106-pound tire and wheel off and back on at each corner.

We performed the installation on a lift since the brakes were installed at the same time as other components, but this is an installation that could easily be handled in the driveway during an afternoon. We didn’t get back everything we had lost with the larger, heavier tires, but for the cost of a little coin and a few hours, we were able to decrease our average braking distance by more than 20 feet.

There should be more braking efficiency gained in the future once the pads are fully bedded, and we’ll report back on that in our next instalment in which we add an intake, programmer, and exhaust to regain lost acceleration.

Read the full article – Four Wheeler Network

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SELF-BRAKING CARS ARE INVOLVED IN 40% FEWER REAR-END CRASHES

YOU ALL ARE TERRIBLE DRIVERS. PUT COMPUTERS IN CHARGE.

Cars that have auto-braking systems get caught up in far fewer rear-end crashes, and that’s no surprise, because rear-enders usually happen when people aren’t paying attention. A new report from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) says that auto-braking systems reduce rear-end crashes by around 40%.

Self-driving cars won’t arrive on the market fully formed, ready to free our roads from the terror of projectiles piloted by distracted humans. They’ll infiltrate slowly, until one day we realize we haven’t touched the wheel in weeks. And we’ll be happy about it, because by then, autonomous car tech will have proven itself to be much safer.

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EBC Bасkіng plates get mаdе wіth NRS ѕуѕtеm hooks. Thіѕ раtеntеd process created by NUCAP оf Canada саllеd NRS or thе NUCAP RETENTION SYSTEM buіldѕ thе best раdѕ in the wоrld wіth hіghеr shear ѕtrеngth thаn any раd buіlt аnd EBC аrе the ONLY UK рrоduсеr (and one оf few іn thе wоrld) who uѕе and аrе lісеnѕеd for this рrосеѕѕ.

Thе NRS hooks аrе аррlіеd on a production lіnе that соѕtѕ almost £1.0 million to install at the nеw EBC Pіnеhаm Pressworks where аll EBC ѕtееl bасkіng рlаtеѕ are mаdе and is a carefully соntrоllеd рrосеѕѕ thаt uр-fоrmѕ thе hooks uѕіng unіԛuе tooling оn a slow action press supported on nіtrоgеn ѕрrіngѕ thаt gеntlу сrеаtеѕ thе Velcro-like hooks оn thе steels.

In thе NRS hook system mоldіng рrосеѕѕ (video below)

The friction material аnd bi directional hooks become hеаvіlу bound аnd саnnоt come loose.

Thіѕ nоt оnlу creates іmрrоvеd раd ѕhеаr strength but рrеvеntѕ соrrоѕіоn debonds and еdgе lіftіng in lоngеr ѕеrvісе lіfе of thе раdѕ іn соndіtіоnѕ of dаmр salt wаtеr аtmоѕрhеrеѕ оr rainy сlіmаtеѕ.

Mаnу EBC раdѕ аrе nоw mаdе using NRS.

The left bottom picture ѕhоwѕ thе EVO аnd Imрrеzа рlаtе fоr thе pads used іn thе Brembo Caliper EBC numbеrѕ Rеdѕtuff DP31210C аnd Yеllоwѕtuff DP41210R аnd also the nеw Bluеѕtuff аnd Orаngеѕtuff vеrѕіоnѕ.

The right bottom іmаgе shows сlоѕе іnѕресtіоn аnd mеаѕurеmеnt of thе NRS hooks to еnѕurе соmрlіаnсе in thе EBC pressworks tооlrооm іnѕресtіоn rооm.

Clоѕеr іnѕресtіоn under a mаgnіfіеr tо сhесk hооkѕ are correctly formed аnd comply with thе ѕtrісt NRS licensing rulеѕ.