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Read it first: Is there such a thing as a do-it-all brake pad?

Is there really such a thing as a do-it-all brake pad? Find out in the upcoming June issue of Grassroots Motorsports.

Just because your car is old, doesn’t mean its brakes should suck

Older cars are fun to drive for a number of reasons, but poor braking performance shouldn't be one of them.

How Will a NASCAR Cup Car's Brakes Handle Daytona's Road Course? We Asked an Expert

As soon as NASCAR announced that its big, heavy Cup cars would be tackling Daytona’s full road course this August, a popular question arose: How will the brakes do under such punishment?

In the August Issue | Brake Fluid: 9 Questions and Answers

What does hygroscopic mean, and what does it have to do with brake fluid? What's so special about DOT 5 brake fluid? We give you the "brake"-down on these questions and more in our next issue.

In the August Issue | What Makes a Racing Brake?

Street or Track? The Ford GT’s Brakes Change With the Specific Mission.

Tires & Wheels: One of the most important parts of the braking system? Tires.

Without tires interacting with the road surface, all those pretty brake parts can’t accomplish much.

Features: Brake fade: What it is and how to fix it

We ask our brakes to do a lot, but what happens when we demand too much?

Shop Work: Building bargain brake ducts from Porsche GT3 parts

As it turns out, late-model Porsche GT3 front brake ducts can be adapted to a wide variety of cars.

Features: How to talk brake upgrades | Ways to turn desires into hardware

Understanding how to talk upgrades with braking experts–and how to get the parts you need? Here's what you need to know.

Shop Work: Will bigger brakes make an older car perform like a modern machine?

Brakes should both correct speed and balance the chassis. The brakes on our MR2 Turbo did virtually none of that, so it was time for a change–a big brake change.

E46 M3 brakes don't feel right? How to tell if it's the ABS/DSC unit

The brakes just didn’t feel right.

Not a sinking pedal, the usual sign of a failing master cylinder, but something just seemed amiss with the brakes on our

Modernizing our Elva's braking system without altering aesthetics

Could we upgrade the brakes while keeping things looking period-correct? That was our goal here.

Our Elva Mk VI sports racer was built in 1961. It’s nearly …

Do all cars really need bigger brakes?

Some cars greatly benefit from a big-brake kit, as the factory pieces just can’t handle the heat. Just see how the upsized hardware transformed our Corvette Z06 and …

How to modernize the brakes on a Bugeye Sprite for improved safety

An early Sprite originally had a single master cylinder for not only front and rear brakes but also for the clutch. To remove a single point of failure, dual master …

Tackling smaller fixes first on our Shelby GT350: Rear Brakes

Before we started replacing anything major, like the transmission, we decided to do first some simple repairs on our 1967 Shelby GT350. After all, it’s been sitting for a …