Hi everyone,
Posted up on the facebook group, got some good replies but thought it would be a good move to post here before pulling the trigger on the setup i go with. I would like to go with a 15" 6 piston setup with Girodisk rotors and G-Loc R16 pads. I have ford racing brake ducts, run RPF660 fluid, i plan to upgrade the ducts to a 4 inch setup in the near future, currently the 4 piston gt500 brembos are on the car and have served me well but left me wanting more thermal capacity.
To get to the point, my worry is the hydraulics with the S550 6 piston setup, seems some people are happy with them and some people feel the pedal throw is increased by a large margin. I like a stiff pedal, and that is important to me. I am leaning to the GT500 setup because hydraulically i know it will work with the s197 slave cylinder. It also has a large pad, not quite as big as the S550 but bigger than even a lot of big brake kits which have proved successfully in terms of its surface area.
Who has been using the S550 setup on an s197 and feels the GT500 setup might have suited them more or has complaints about the S550 setup on an s197? Pedal feel to me is slightly more important than 10% increase in pad life i would expect from the S550 vs GT500 6 piston setup. I am planning to place an order with optimum mustang either in the next couple of days, and still on the fence with which setup to go with, I hate these decisions, noone around me has an S550 setup on an S197, frankly very few mustangs in the UAE go to the track
Posted up on the facebook group, got some good replies but thought it would be a good move to post here before pulling the trigger on the setup i go with. I would like to go with a 15" 6 piston setup with Girodisk rotors and G-Loc R16 pads. I have ford racing brake ducts, run RPF660 fluid, i plan to upgrade the ducts to a 4 inch setup in the near future, currently the 4 piston gt500 brembos are on the car and have served me well but left me wanting more thermal capacity.
To get to the point, my worry is the hydraulics with the S550 6 piston setup, seems some people are happy with them and some people feel the pedal throw is increased by a large margin. I like a stiff pedal, and that is important to me. I am leaning to the GT500 setup because hydraulically i know it will work with the s197 slave cylinder. It also has a large pad, not quite as big as the S550 but bigger than even a lot of big brake kits which have proved successfully in terms of its surface area.
Who has been using the S550 setup on an s197 and feels the GT500 setup might have suited them more or has complaints about the S550 setup on an s197? Pedal feel to me is slightly more important than 10% increase in pad life i would expect from the S550 vs GT500 6 piston setup. I am planning to place an order with optimum mustang either in the next couple of days, and still on the fence with which setup to go with, I hate these decisions, noone around me has an S550 setup on an S197, frankly very few mustangs in the UAE go to the track
