question kevin. on a dual sided caliper, such as my 4-piston Brembos from Viper or your 8-piston Brembos from Merc, you ignore one side of pistons because of how they push against each other and cancels out some of that line pressure.

Does that mean your brake torque calculation where you double it for the other pad, should not be doubled? or do you still double that number because you already accounted for the "loss" of piston force from the opposing pistons?


And what about the coefficient of friction between the pad/rotor? should that be accounted for somewhere?


---or is that some of the details that you said an engineer would throw a fit over?


while I'm on that subject, don't forget to subtract loss of line pressure from rubber brake lines deforming under pressure