calipers
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An instrument, usually resembling a pair of dividers or compasses with curved legs, for measuring the diameter or thickness of bodies, as of work shaped in a lathe or planer, timber, masts, shot, etc.; or the bore of firearms, tubes, etc.; -- called also caliper compasses, or caliber compasses.
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Borrowed components include the Brembo -sourced four-piston brake calipers on all four wheels, aluminium semi-trailing arms and aluminum front A-arms, used in a Macpherson strut arrangement.
Calipers are black Corvette branded and whoa this baby down in a hurry.
Floating 944 calipers were standard, but the rear wheel brake circuit pressure regulator from the 944 turbo was used.
However, this type of system becomes much more complicated when the rear disc brakes use fixed, multi-piston calipers.
In 1986, revised suspension settings, larger brakes with 4-piston calipers and modified exhaust was installed on the 928S, marking the final changes to old body style cars.
In practice, a metering valve prevents hydraulic pressure from reaching the front calipers until pressure rises enough to overcome the return springs in the drum brakes.