ATE Power Discs

[Larry C Leung]

The only time the slotted or cross drilled rotors really make a
difference is if you manage in your braking to heat up the pads to the
point that they are seriously out-gassing, the gas leaving the pads keeps
the pads from contacting the disks. The slots or holes provide a path for
the hot gases to escape, allowing for full pad/disk contact. Below this
threshold, you MAY even experience reduced brake performance due to
slightly less availible surface area. I personally run solid ATE disks on
my Solo2 GTi, but it IS an excessively light car (1000 kg, wet w/driver).

LL - NY

On Sun, 18 Nov 2001 19:23:53 +0000 (GMT) =?iso-8859-1?q?SIMON=20HOLTBY?=
<sholtby at yahoo.co.uk> writes:
>Donald,
>
>I fitted the slotted power disks to a Urq and found no difference over
>the
>
>'normal' type. I think they have done you a favour as the slotted type
>are
>quite a bit more expensive.
>
>Simon
>
>
>
> --- Donald Lamond <dlam119 at bellsouth.net> wrote: > This is a
>multi-part
>message in MIME format.
>> --
>> I recently purchased a set of ATE PowerDiscs only to find that the
>price
>> of 40.00US was for solid and not slotted discs.
>>
>> That was from the Parts Bin somewhere in NY.
>>
>> Donald
>>
>> 84 4Ks
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>
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