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Old 04-22-2011, 08:06 PM
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I will change my brakes later on but i been wondering about our brake system that how many piston does it have !! I heard that it only has 1 piston right ?
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wow ur right lol

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yes 1 piston
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yeah a real big one lol
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hehehe great
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Just one more quick question, our brakes act like the way of sliding the inside pad out and the disc outside to in right ? How our brakes work ? And what is the different between ours and bbk ?
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yes its sliding caliper. Usually bbk has a fixed caliper with floating rotor.
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Even ///M cars have a single piston
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Lol cool, cuz i got a friend that he just bragging about how great Benz' brakes are with 2 side piston sets and those would be more performance on their brake with less distance breaking then our cars.
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M5/M6 has 2 pistons in the front caliper .


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