Your contradicting your self here or I miss understood your enjoying “soft” and “mushy” and “lack of modulation” is that right?
A BBK with pistons on both sides and floating rotors will not only increase stopping power and reduce heat, save weight, they also give much better modulation then an off and on switch....
I wouldn’t describe any BBK or proper caliper to be “grabby”
I believe your saying 17” wheels not rotors...?
Sorry hotlap for the thread jack here!
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You are correct, 17" wheel, not rotor, a typo on my part.
As for brakes, sports cars are primarily designed to modulate their brakes using pressure, not travel. No doubt you know F1 cars require as much as 250lbs of pedal pressure and have virtually zero pedal travel. But those crazy high levels of pressure are actually helpful because they allow drivers to more precisely modulate braking. (Human physiology is much better at precisely controlling muscle exertion than limb position. This is also why the Blue Angel jets have crazy high stick loads for formation flying.) This pressure oriented design is why sports cars brakes feel so firm and crisp.
But what works on the street doesn't work on the dirt. If Ford used high brake pedal forces to threshold brake on the dirt, those same brakes would be impossible to use on the street where significantly higher pressures would be required for the higher levels of grip. That is why our off-road brakes use a lot more throw than sports cars (the extra travel is why people claim they feel "mushy"). For off-road use, we use pedal position to threshold brake because the pedal forces are so light they are hard to control with just pressure. And since our bodies are not as good at controlling position, we need a wider pedal travel window to modulate the brakes in. The advantage of this "mushy" configuration is we can still get full stopping power on the street with normal levels of braking pressure. But it does mean the brake pedal has a far longer stroke than the GT350R.
Ford sells lots of performance cars with firm brakes, so they know how do it if that is what was best for the Raptor. That means the Raptor's brakes feel the way they do on purpose. As a sports car owner, I totally understand why drivers who never offraod would prefer a different configuration. But our brakes are better for a truck that offroads.
