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As long as you reset the pistons/bleed to a block thicker than your rotor and pads, it doesn't matter how thick your rotors are. Lever throw will be the same. The only time thicker rotors decrease lever throw is if you just swap a thin rotor for a thicker one and do nothing else. This is effectively the same as over filling your brakes so it eventually goes away.

Yeah this pretty much sums it up. The swing link has less mechanical advantage over the master cylinder initially and then ramps towards more mechanical advantage. That allows the bit of lever stroke that closes up the gap between the pads and the rotor to be relatively short. If you over fill the lever to make the brakes touchier then you end up with something that 1. needs to be maintained or the feel will go away and 2. is primarily in the portion of lever throw where the swing link has less mechanical advantage. The cams we make work...

Oof, can't really comment on that one as I don't know how everything is setup, but if the pistons can move 0,2 mm back (0,1 mm for each piston) from the factory bleed position, at the worst, you'd need a 0,2 mm thicker bleedblock and it'd be completely the same (doing a factory specified bleed and pushing the pads 0,2 mm further apart might overfill the system and squeeze the pistons back towards the rotor). As soon as you shave 0,1 mm off each pad you'll for sure be good to go though. Considering it's a setup you already have...

Okay, put on your beer bottle bottom glasses, we're getting nerdy! This is of course my theory and thinking, I've never designed a braking system so I don't know if this is fact or fiction, but it kinda seems to check out. Though if you ask a 'world cup levele mechanic' on Pinkbike, the swing link does nothing. Anywho, hydraulic brakes are essentially a simple hydraulic machine. As per wiki's article, this is the most important picture in the story (stolen and reuploaded due to the size of the original picture and keeping only the relevant part): That force...

I'd say it's a 'deal with it' situation... The swing link gives you a lot of pad movement and a lot of power. You're fairly limited in how much either you can get from your finger (as in lots of power, no pad clearance or lots of pad clearance, no power), unless you move that around a bit, which is what the swing link does. I can go all the way to 11 with the nerdiness, but I intentionally held back. If you want the 11, just say so. Is the short lever throw personal preference or a necessity because...

Here's a weird idea to give the Codes more power and less arm pump... Run the factory bleed??? If you run the pads closer to the rotor by adding oil through the bleeding edge (making them 'touchier through less pad clearance, same goes for a skinnier bleed block), you're also out of whack on the swing link leverage characteristic. Think of it like a suspension leverage ratio characteristics (because it's basically the same) - you never get to the sweet bottomless feel of the progressive end stroke, you always run in the weird beginning stroke charactristic. Bleed them like they...