NaN Wrote:I've run our cars through vdrift -cartest looking into brake performance, mainly fixing friction coefficients to have more realistic values (0.3 - 0.7) and increasing brake system pressure where required.
I would say that most of the cars are using piston areas that are way too large. In the project I am working on, I just reduced the suggested value of 0.015 m2 to 0.00501, which is that of a pretty impressive 6-piston caliper AP Radi-CAL CP9660:
http://www.apracing.com/drawings/2015 Product Catalogue/2015 Brake Calipers.pdf
To compensate, I've set max-pressure to a higher value of 1.4e7 pascals, equal to 140 bars.
That was indeed my adjustment factor when I was testing at the Nordschleife in the hard-braking approach from Tiergarten to Hohenrain:
2.5e7 -- enough stopping power (with ABS)
1.1 ---- too little
1.5 ---- enough
1.3 ---- too little
1.4 ---- enough
Pressures up to 250 bars are at least within the realm of possibility:
https://www.fte-automotive.com/aftermark...ester.html
On the other hand, I have never heard of a piston area of 150 cm2. The largest I have found are 70 cm2 -- intended for 410mm disks!
I know there are some 8-piston calipers out there, but I don't think they can cover that much.
