Id be careful with doing that. The ABS is tuned for the particular model and it knows all the parameters (characteristics of that chassis altered by different options: weight and distribution, brakes, suspension) that can affect how the vehicle will behave. Yes, the fundamental 'prevent the wheel from locking up' is the same and the modulator will do its best regardless of what changes have been made to achieve this.Originally Posted by wagonist
Change one of those and you do have the potential to cause issues. I do say potential as i have seen many cars with brake upgrades with no percievable issues - but then again i havent seen these people take their cars to a race track.
Any reason why you want to keep the ABS for a race car? Surely a decent driver would be able to perform better without it, and over here most regulations require that it be deactivated anyway. The only reason i would be using ABS is to obtain a factory wheelspeed sensor rather than having to graft one on. Id piss the rest of it off, some modules weight in the vicinity of 25kg (doubt that the IS would be that but thats a lot when it comes to a race car)
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