[s-cars] Brake upgrade?

Russ Panneton russ at panneton.name
Sat Feb 7 00:41:01 EST 2004


Drilled and/or slotted rotors?

Robert Myers wrote:

>
> Hi Y'all,
>
> Today, while driving through rather heavy rain and equally heavy road 
> spray, I found myself unpleasantly surprised a couple of times by 
> applying the brakes and finding them to have rather limited initial 
> effect until the pads/rotors got dried off a bit.  The reason for the 
> problem is quite clear and no significant problem was present due to 
> my not pushing too hard for the conditions present.  However, the 
> experience was still a bit disconcerting.
>
> My question: would a brake upgrade to something like BIRA system 1 or 
> system 3 solve the wet brakes problem?  Is there a pad material which 
> would minimize this behavior under very wet conditions while still 
> giving satisfactory dry weather braking with minimal dust?
>
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