Strano Performance Parts - Sam Strano

Strano Performance Parts - Sam Strano Strano Performance Parts
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18x SCCA Solo National Champion

Your S3 and first time National event winner, sharing Derek Palmerton's CSM Mustang, Clark LaCelle!
05/17/2026

Your S3 and first time National event winner, sharing Derek Palmerton's CSM Mustang, Clark LaCelle!

Pretty good weekend for the bunch of us out of the Strano Performance Parts stable. Dave Montgomery wins the super chall...
05/17/2026

Pretty good weekend for the bunch of us out of the Strano Performance Parts stable.

Dave Montgomery wins the super challenge after a pretty brutal fight in fs-class competition. Where Sam strano managed to win with Chad eng ler in the middle of the mix with super competitive times. Dave had some flyers that just couldn't run, clean, and saved the best for very last!

05/13/2026

This is actually relevant to things we do around here all the time. It has become common for people to take brake calipers from other cars and adapt them to their own. Seeing this most commoly with 4th gen F-bodies using various 4 and 6 piston brakes from other cars. Here is the issue, it isn't just about the number of pistons, but the volume of fluid you need, and the ratio of that vs. stock and vs. the rear brakes too.

The stock master cylinder is sized to supply the needed volume and pressure to the OEM brakes. Some 4th gens us a big single piston front, though 1997, then the others after are two piston, but the total area of each is very similar. And so are the C5 Corvette calipers. A designed kit like Wilwood 4 or 6 piston kit, also about the same total piston area as OEM to keep the hydraulic ratio in check.

Unfortunately many have taken to using some huge calipers that have 4 or 6 pistons that are relatively large. That does a few things. It does make more power for same effort, but it makes modulation harder. It shifts your base bias frontward. the EBD system used ABS to do brake biasing on the 98+ cars, and then it has to react aggressively to try and shift more bias to the rear, which tends to engage ABS sooner and create brake hop issues. And then there is the fact that for the stock master cylinder to move the fluid required, it means you have to push the pedal further, closer to the floor which is what most anyone who like doing cornering or track things would not want especially as the brakes heat up and the pedal falls a bit more.

So why this link about IndyCars at the Speedway? Well they had issues with the rear brakes being too sensitive and giving too much bite with poor modulation as they entered pit road at Indy. So they sized down the pistons to give more granular control/better modulation. You can get the power still just takes more effort.

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Thank you Daniel for allowing us to help by building Wheels for your Camaro! It's not often you see C6 ZR1 carbon brake...
05/13/2026

Thank you Daniel for allowing us to help by building Wheels for your Camaro! It's not often you see C6 ZR1 carbon brakes on one of these. Getting the right wheel fit and offset as well as being able to clear those calipers isn't something most can do, It took some back and forth to work out the fine details, it was worth it!

05/05/2026

I make this comment as matter of factly and unemotionally as I can:

I am happy to help you with your advice for your car parts. What I cannot do, and it seems this is now the new thing people want and then get upset that I refuse to do for them is make you a complete list of parts you need to put on your car that's 25 or 30 years old, that I can't see, touch, or test drive. How can I be expected to know what your car needs vs. someone elses?

This happened end of last week, some dude calls and does this to me, says he took the car to a shop and it needs stuff. He can't tell me what stuff, just that the shop told him it needs suspension things, but they either didn't tell him what that meant or he just thought I have some sorta mind reading device. And it just happened again, this time out of Ohio, on a car that was bought out of Copart... and is finishing some rust repair. Says the brakes are at 0% on one end and 5% on the other but also that he is driving it around. Uh, okay. I mean you are driving it around with no brakes? I ask what it would take to pass a safety inspection, he says it passed inspection (Ohio so not saftey, but emissions). Terrific but not what I need to know. Are you rubber lines cracked? Are you hard lines rusty? Again I cannot see it. Do you have a budget?

I get terse thanks for your time and *click*.

Flip side of this is sometimes you get some good ones. Yesterday I had 3, today I had 2 more customers who asked great questions, we talked options and they were very happy, so it's not *all* bad, mostly it's pretty good but man, some apples do really mess up the barrel.

Just say no to drilled rotors, especially if they are drilled after they are cast not case with the holes in them. Pic ...
05/04/2026

Just say no to drilled rotors, especially if they are drilled after they are cast not case with the holes in them.

Pic borrowed from a group for HPDE instructors, and these were on a car in Sebring, as you can see they weren't exactly all old and used up, helll the one still has the sticker for what location it went on the car.

05/01/2026

Good luck to all our (and our all out) customers starting One Lap of America.

I already had to ship a couple spare sets of pads, well one spare and two sets of primaries to various hotels, including overnight air when someone reached out late on Wednesday night, by Thursday AM they were on the way, arrived this morning and already installed.

The other set will be meeting those guys in Tulsa.

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