| You posited: "In theory they would produce a tremendous amount of heat in doing so, (because they suck) so my question is that if a brake kit had an easier time producing the torque wouldn’t it in essence clamp down on the rotor with greater ease, therefore producing less heat which would in turn be less to dissipate?" So obviously, you *don't* understand it. I say to you: the amount of heat generated is constant, because you're transducing the same amount of kinetic energy, regardless of whether you're using 45" rotors or 4" rotors. What you're after is a more effective way to dissipate heat, with bigger rotors. The caliper has very, very little to do with dissipating heat. That's what the rotor is for. The calipers only hold the friction medium. Their primary design concern is stiffness and conduction. You want them to be nice and stiff so that they don't yield in odd directions under pressure, and you want them not to conduct much heat, so that you don't boil your fluid. If you had bothered to *read* the link before, you'd have seen these very facts. Finally, I'll leave you with clamping force. Looking for "ease" in clamping force is to miss the point. If you're capable of locking the wheels, the torque is sufficient. The only poor design in play is if you end up with so much pressure on the piston in the caliper that the seal fails (and even the stockers don't "suck", in your eloquent choice of words, that much). If what you're thinking of when you write "clamping force" is pedal effort, then you're better off getting a bigger master cylinder and booster. They move more fluid per inch of travel, and the booster will take the pressure off of the pedal.
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