To add- Bigger MC diameter, less travel but less PSI- smaller diameter, more travel more PSI, depends on the track. If we have a super fast track, we might have to run a smaller MC piston to get the PSI, but the racer will have to grab more lever.......it goes on and on!
But- we know that you can get away with murder on a bike, and I hate to discourage someone from making their own stuff.........but your current setup is super sketchy!
Note taken. I'm assuming the "track" is the circumference of the rotor?
Track refers to the racetrack, a "slower" track with lots of twisties let's say, might be better served with a bigger diameter MC, so we have less lever travel to push the pads .100" for example- so we move the lever .500" and get X PSI (let's say 500) and this is adequate to slow the machine because the fastest section is 100 MPH.
Now, we have a track with few turns and we bang 150 MPH, we go for a smaller MC piston diameter, but we have to move the lever .850" to get 500 PSI at the pads at .100" travel...................BUT when we grab those binders with 1.100" of travel, we get 900 PSI! Where the larger MC is only going to get us 650 PSI at 1.100" of travel. These are made up numbers to illustrate my point, and there is no free lunch, but we deal with these figures within our limitations.
Braking is converting kinetic to thermal, so all kinds of cool math apply!
PS- Don't quote me, 'cause I now have 6 Tecates in me-
