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Originally Posted by cody
An additional 800 lbs is nothing to scoff at, but I'm still surprised that upgraded pads and fluid wouldn't make this beast safe for the streets at least. But obviously you'd know better than I since you own one.
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I think some of it has to do with poor brake balance. At 1st I had Axxis Ultimates up front and OEM pads in the rear. When I replaced both front and rear pads w/ Axxis Deluxe pads my braking actually worked better even though the Deluxes aren't quite as good as the Ultimates, simply because I was giving more work to the rear brakes.
That said, I'm not really sure why the SVX is so underbraked... on paper it should do fine... it's got 11"+ ventilated front rotors and 2-pot sliding calipers... that's enough brake that it requires 16" wheels! And the car is about 4000 lbs wet w/ driver... that's not exceedingly heavy (though I wouldn't call it "light" by a long shot). I think the car may just need some thicker rotors to act as a better heat sink or something. I'm not sure... braking systems are actually extremely complicated.