Radial Type Calipers

[andiiso]

can someone please explain to me exactly what a "Radial Type Caliper" is ? and how i would know if one is by looking at it ?

thanks
andiiso

[vinnY]

radial (http://www.motorcycledaily.com/13november02radialbrakes.html) mount (http://www.motorcycle.com/how-to/radialmount-calipers-3414.html) brake calipers i assume
just a different way of mounting, commonly found on bikes

[aaronng]

Our Honda car calipers are radially mounted.

[vinnY]

^ thought our calipers were floating?

this (http://www.carbibles.com/images/radialcalipers.jpg) would suggest our calipers are floating, not radially mounted
clicky (http://www.carbibles.com/brake_bible.html) for more info

[aaronng]

^ thought our calipers were floating?

Floating does not relate to radial mount. The opposite of the floating caliper is the fixed caliper.

I am however incorrect and our stock calipers are perpendicular mounted. The bolts holding the caliper to the bracket are perpendicular to the rotor face. The radial mounted ones would have the bolt facing the same plane as the rotor face.


Radial mount Wilwood calipers:
http://us.st12.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/yhst-44391461728451_2035_60865439

[vinnY]

nevermind i too stand corrected
while they are a floating caliper it's got nothing to do with the mounting mechanism :p
question answered i think

[e240]

Radial Mount calipers are supposed to be stiffer with less flex provided the caliper mounts were designed for radial calipers to begin with.

If you look at most of the bolt ons for our cars, we use a bracket which is then mounted to the OEM caliper mount anyway...kinda defeats the purpose right?

Proper Radial Mount:
http://www.motorcycledaily.com/091602side4-6.jpg

[andiiso]

hrmm, i see thanks guys, we dont have any stock hondas with radial type calipers do we ? .. i dont really recall seeing any Hondas with it standard.

[vinnY]

acura tl (http://www.honda-tech.com/showthread.php?t=2071969) so they say..

[andiiso]

hrmm .. so a radial type caliper is a caliper that has its bolts in line wid rotor .. the only standard car (in Honda current line up not including bikes) i can think of atm with a possiblity of that is the Legend. Thanks everyone for the input, has helped me a tonne !