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 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?
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 !
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