Single-piston calipers

Single-piston calipers
A: In my opinion, strictly speaking, the sports car field can be divided into three camps in Europe, the United States and Japan, because of geographical and cultural differences between the sports car from the three have different personalities and characteristics. The mainstream of European sports car pay attention to balance, ie, focus on power and handling performance, but also pay attention to grades, a sense of luxury and comfort. American sports car is rough, the power and handling is not bad, but either do not pay attention to how innovations in engine technology and suspension, structural design, usually the end of a constant for decades, only in the original basis on continuous improvement. Japanese sports car belonging to the radical type, persistent pursuit of power and handling, strong fighting spirit, but do not care about comfort and grades to save. For example, you can either driving a BMW M3 to the sports car field, but also open and decent access advanced entertainment clubs, but replaced by a Mitsubishi EVO out of tune with the elite gentlemen in style.
European and American sports car can also make a nice drift action, the problem is the modification level and driver level. Japanese sports car, the Honda S2000 is not suitable for drift, Japanese production by Silvia S13, S14, S15 is more suitable for the drift of such an argument. You can not simply say that the European and American sports car ability to drift look better. But in factbrake racing, to take the European car play drift does not this emphasis with European cars, European and drift is not too cold, the European vehicles into your side.
4 A: The difference between them lies in the way of the braking action. A piston floating caliper on one side only, when the brakes, the piston side of the brake pads into the brake disc and caliper on the other side because the reaction force and the axial movement, the other side of the brake pads pressure to the brakes. Fixed calipers on both sides of the piston, brakes on both sides of the piston, while the role of the brake pad pressure to the brakes.
Single-piston calipers on only one piston calipers, the calipers must floating, at present the majority of the market, sales of passenger cars with single-piston floating calipers. Dual-piston floating brake calipers, but relatively rare. General multi-piston brake calipers are a fixed design, and more for the power of a strong sports car or modified car. 4 piston calipers calipers on both sides of each of the two pistons, 6 piston is three pistons on each side, and so on. In theory, that the caliper piston the greater the number of brake pads exert more uniform distribution of force on the brakes. But it generates may not be the greater braking force, depending on piston size (but in general will become larger). Generally speaking, with the piston increase in the number (of the total area of the piston), the greater the size, the greater the braking force calipers match the diameter of the brake disk is greater.