Re: I fit Mercedes front calipers. Rears are still dead.

["Rich Wagner" <drsavage@domain.elided>]

Davide:

>I fitted them to the Alfa, and
>now have fantastic front brakes. The rears, however, hardly brake at all. 

If the rears have smaller diameter pistons, they will indeed supply less
braking action than your old ones, for the same amount of pedal pressure. 
The only thing you can do to change that, is to go back to the larger bore
calipers, or get a master cylinder that has a smaller diameter bore.


Rich Wagner
Montrose, CO
'82 GTV6 Balocco

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