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In the August Issue | What Makes a Racing Brake?

Street or Track? The Ford GT’s Brakes Change With the Specific Mission.

In the August Issue | Brake Fluid: 9 Questions and Answers

What does hygroscopic mean, and what does it have to do with brake fluid? What's so special about DOT 5 brake fluid? We give you the "brake"-down on these questions and more in our next issue.

How Will a NASCAR Cup Car's Brakes Handle Daytona's Road Course? We Asked an Expert

As soon as NASCAR announced that its big, heavy Cup cars would be tackling Daytona’s full road course this August, a popular question arose: How will the brakes do under such punishment?

Just because your car is old, doesn’t mean its brakes should suck

Older cars are fun to drive for a number of reasons, but poor braking performance shouldn't be one of them.

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brakes articles

Shop Work: How to Go About Upgrading Your Brakes

“Jack of all trades, master of none” is a pretty good description of OE brake system designs.

Shop Work: How to prevent brake vibrations

Quite simply, brake vibrations are never a good thing.

Features: Hawk Performance: Choosing the Right Brake Pads for any Situation

We spoke with Hawk Performance's Edwin Mangune about the origin of Hawk and his recommendations for pads.

Shop Work: 8 secrets to bending and flaring pro-quality brake lines

Scared of tackling brake plumbing? With these tricks and the right tools, you can bend lines like a pro.

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brakes project car updates

How much brakes for an endurance racer Miata? | Project Endurance Race Miata

Our LFX Miata’s first test day had ended in failure–brake failure, to be exact. Now it was time to fix them.

Our goal? Consistent brakes …

Picking the right brake pad compound for our 997

At our first track day in our Porsche 997, we began to run out of brakes. Despite Porsche’s reputation for superior stopping performance, the FIRM can be a …

Are two-piece rotors worth the extra money?

Suspension, power, must be time for brakes on our Mk7 Volkswagen GTI, right?

We’d nearly used up the OEM pads and rotors after …

Are endurance race pads really the best choice for a daily driver?

In our last brake update, we fitted a set of 3D-printed brake cooling deflectors. Our goal? To keep our very street-friendly pads–Pagid’s new STREET+ line–working even …

How we transformed our classic Mustang's brake system for track duty

We replaced the stock drums with Cobra Automotive’s HSR-legal disc brake kit–basically a duplicate of the parts used by Trans-Am teams back in the day–but we still needed …

brakes Forum Topics

Learn me brakes (mkii Focus edition)
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Those junkyard big brake upgrades
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