ZF’s Commercial Vehicle Control Systems Division revealed that Navistar has selected WABCO MAXXUS L2.0 air disc brakes to become available for the International LT and RH series. According to ZF, the ...
Had enough analyzing the nuances of this new brake’s design? Well, we’ll cut to the chase. We took a Spyre-equipped Volagi to the hills above Los Gatos and Saratoga in the Bay Area, and put the brakes ...
Almost a year ago, we did our first ride on the TRP Spyre dual piston mechanical disc brake and wrote this lengthy review, but quite a lot has changed in the last year. Unfortunately both the Spyre ...
When Jim O'Connell bought his 1955 Chevrolet 210 Del Ray seven years ago, it already had a front disc brake conversion kit of unknown origin installed that used 11-inch rotors and stock GM S-10 single ...
The disc brake has become an almost ubiquitous component of the modern car. There's a good reason for that... A disc brake is an assembly that provides stopping power by clamping brake pads against a ...
A good braking setup is as essential to performance and lap times as a powerful engine, and even more for safety. Braking technology has made quite a few advances over the years, going from drum ...
Let's talk fender preservation. Let's talk numbers. According to Motor Trend's instrumented testing from back in the day, a bone-stock '67 SS350 Camaro required 156 feet to decelerate from 60 mph. In ...
Avid's new four-piston X0 Trail hydraulic disc brake fills the gap in between the standard two-piston X0 and the more gravity oriented Code range. It's impressively powerful but still reasonably light ...
After driving through my Blazer’s brakes on the last trip out when in 4:1 low range, I decided it was time to upgrade the old stopping hardware with something better than what was offered on my axles ...
The advantages of disc brakes are well known to serious four-wheelers. Although discs have lessarea than comparable-application drums, they work better when hot and wet. Plus, discs are easier to ...
Jaguar's C-Type dragged disc brakes into the automotive limelight - but it wasn't the technology's first outing In 1952, William Lyons entered a Jaguar C-Type into the Goodwood Easter race. There was ...
Are you sick and tired of people debating the merits of road disc brakes? Me too! So today I'm going to rain all over a different parade: cable-operated disc brakes. Cable disc brakes are not the best ...