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Originally Posted by Sidedraft
Ford cut the carbon ceramic brakes and instead went with carbon fiber wheels. The cost is probably pretty close to the same.
Really, the biggest gain from using carbon ceramic brakes is for the reduced unsprung mass. If it wasn't for the fact that the Zeta Camaro was such a heavy platform I doubt GM would have put carbon ceramics on the Z/28 in the first place.
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On a street car maybe, but there are definitely benefits of CC brakes in racing. And let's not forget the the R MSRP is $61k, I'm sure adding another $10k in brakes to make it the same price as the Z/28 wasn't well received given the Z/28s sales. Ford definitely didn't want to make that mistake when it knows it will only sell a few anyway.
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Last edited by SuperSound; 08-05-2015 at 01:19 PM.
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