Exploding Rotors: why you do not drill

TM t44tq at mindspring.com
Fri Jun 20 20:24:37 EDT 2003


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Mark, Brett-
I did not mean to blame Brett in my post- that was not the intent.

As you have said, it is most important that the driver of the car check
these things him/herself after every run. I check my fluids, brake pads,
tire pressures and look for any visible problems or leaks after every
run
at the track- I cannot afford to have a failure that may get me killed.

What I meant really was that stress cracking of the rotors should be
visibly apparent before the rotor disintegrates. It is irresponsible of
the
owner of that TT in question to not have noticed this before the
catastrophic failure. From Brett's report, it appears that, fortunately,
no
one was injured in this incident.

BTW Brett- did you run? How do you like LRP?

Taka



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