Originally Posted by 6LITEREATER

^^Actually larger rotors with the same pad make a big difference. Braking is like a lever and you just made the lever longer with the larger rotors pushing the caliber out.

Further on on the lever the same work will now exert more force.

Originally Posted by CorbinLR

So is the CTS-V caliper larger than the C5 caliper?
I'm starting to drift towards C5 rotors with brembo calipers.
I know the CTS-V is a brembo make however I think the CTS-V rotors are larger and therefore the calipers would be larger and would not be usable on C5 rotors.

Originally Posted by FordHater

Haha i know, I was meaning if you leave the caliper location in the exact same spot it would be the same braking force with the larger rotor. It's only when you move the caliper out with the adapter brackets when you get more braking power.

Originally Posted by SVThuh

How would this even be possible??? Larger rotor means the caliper has to be moved out accordingly..