My 2.0 litre, 5-speed hardtop. Any Holden Commodore forum you can find will explain how rubbish standard VN to VP series' brakes are. Even the anchors fitted to the 5.0 litre V8 variants cop a bollocking for having under-sized rotors, coupled with puny single-piston callipers, neither of which is anywhere near being able to bring GMH's finest to a quick stop after a sustained hammering. I couldn't resist a squirt of calliper paint! Everything's relative, though! What's underwhelming on a 1,300 to 1,500 kg Commodore turns out to be pretty trick on a 970 kg Galant hardtop, especially when they're coupled with a set of beefier rear drums from a Galant station wagon. The maths are pretty simple: a VN's 290 mm vented rotors, matched with finned alloy calipers and largish pads, versus solid 230 mm Galant discs with callipers of heat retaining cast iron and medium sized pads. It was never really a contest! The wagon drums out back are similarly over-specced f
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