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Subject:Re: Thoughts on the coming rear disc brakes from GW?
From:T3 Technique
Date:Tue, 2 Feb 2016 06:24:41 -0800

Burley's kit is a copy of the SC kit and they both use the same parts. Many
of my customers have had just as much trouble getting the parking brake to
work well on both kits.

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Ed McLean
Sent: Tuesday, February 2, 2016 6:05 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Thoughts on the coming rear disc brakes from GW?

So, other than the bracket that attaches the carrier to the hub, how are the
Burley Motorsports rear disc brakes different than the SmallCar or the
GoWesty kits?  Are the pads different composition with different cold FMSI
friction codes?  The calipers look the same in the available pictures but
are they different?  Are there other factors that would impact parking brake
efficiency?

Do the Burley parking brakes really work better?

 On Mon, 1 Feb 2016 17:51:27 -0800, Alistair Bel <albell@SHAW.CA> wrote:
>
>But.... Reading about the various rear brake set ups, from various
vendors, one annoying thing seems to crop up and that is poor parking brake
performance. The burley Motorsport kit it be the exception to this.
>
>Alistair