6061 Aluminum in use for Brake Brackets?

[rs4pro3]

Ok I've got some custom Large front brakes ready to go on my car(NO I will not say what they are). Now the Brackets I had to CNC mill and are 6061 aluminum and 9/16" thick. I've been throwing this over in my head if they will be strong enough or not. I know Brembo and the such use Aluminum for there caliper kits. I want to install these Realy soon, so I have proper time to Test them in some empty parking lots and back roads, before I have to drive the car everyday to school in late august. Any ideas, experiences? I was going to have them tested at school on our instron machine to see at what forces they would break but ran out of time in the semester.

[AndrewBird]

Got any pics?

Either way, I would think that 9/16th plate should be strong enough. 6061 is pretty good stuff. 7075 is better, but for that application, 6061 is plenty strong.

[rs4pro3]

I wanted to get 7075, but I made them at school and our technician, would probally maybe about now of gotten the material in :roll:

[cthulu703]

So you want advice on which alloy to use, but don't want to share what your brake kit is composed of?

[rs4pro3]

Yep, the whole reason being, I'm not the one who figured out the combo of parts that works. And that person had talked about selling plans/parts for the combo. I'll let them put out in public what the combo is first.