Our FSAE Car

[Hunter]

We're required to have front and rear brakes in the rules, and in fact the car is redonkulous fast, so I'd be scared to run without them anyway. We considered running in board brakes, but I for one was against it for a variety of reasons. Switching from outboard to inboard brakes would require a complete redesign of our uprights and significant changes in the diff package. Right now the diff sits in a cradle that outboard of the frame at it's a really light (and pretty) setup, moving the brakes inside would require us to make it super beefy and probably locate it with in the frame for added support.

The inboard set up gives you a much more simple design and a system that can be slightly lighter, but you end up with a much greater moment of inertia due to the increase of rotating mass in the diff and an increase in the radius of the rear rotor.