[Fot] Racing wheels and brakes for TR6

[Tony Drews]

I am using the Toyota caliper in a race application.  There's a 
little more area under the pad than stock, but I'm not sure it's a 
huge improvement.  Makes it easier to find calipers and brake pads though.

I also built a Racestoration knockoff dual circuit setup.

Tony Drews

At 10:51 AM 8/5/2011, Jamie Palmer wrote:
>For those of you that have been following our saga with our TR6 ChumpCar,
>please know that we finished 20th out of 84 cars at the VIR 24 hrs. and were
>quite pleased.  Nevertheless, I have two questions for this erstwhile group:
>
>1.  We (as several of you have previously commented could happen) broke the
>center out of one of the stock steel TR6 wheels we have been using.  It was
>an...interesting...experience (I was driving).  So...I've looked at
>inexpensive alternatives (remember, this is ChumpCar) and it looks like
>Diamond Racing wheels may be the way to go.  Anyone purchased 15's from them
>for a TR before?  Offset/width recommendations?  Remember, when it comes to
>tires, we're limited to 190 treadwear or greater street tires, so our choices
>are quite limited (we've been running 205/50-15's and the gearing works out
>about right, given our tiny power level).  Interested in all thoughts!
>
>2.
>Also had some brake issues.  Does anyone recommend going to the Toyota caliper
>conversion for a race application?  Just curious, I have the conversion on my
>street TR6 and am very happy with it.  Wildwoods or similar are out of our
>price range (and would probably violate the 2 times stock pricing ChumpCar
>rules as well).
>
>Thanks for your help!
>
>Jamie Palmer
>Squadron Leader
>RiffRAF
>Racing
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