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Bigger Brakes 140-160

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posted by  matt b on  Thu Nov 27 04:20 CST 2003
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I'm with the bottom replying folks... 140 brakes were way ahead of their time, and more than adequate even by modern car standards. To be honest, I don't recall ever even having a rotor warp, and definitely never had a problem with fade. *Maybe* if you were doing serious scca road racing stuff, and fast enough to win...you *might* run into trouble, but even there I'd wager to guess you'd probably be OK with the stock brakes.

That said though, I do believe you could easily swap to the 164 vented rotors. You will, of course, need the wider calipers as well. And remember too that not all 164s had the vented rotors... I think they came along in '72 or '71 or '70 or so... I honestly don't know if the hubs are the same or not though.

-Matt






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