[s-cars] Brake Rotor with Big Reds

Theodore Chen tedebearp at yahoo.com
Wed May 18 18:25:43 EDT 2005


--- Joe Pizzimenti <joe.pizzimenti at gmail.com> wrote:
> Here we go again...
> 
> I'm of the opinion that if you're beating your brakes to the point of
> comparing it to a GT3 cup car, you're going to need a little more than
> slotted or vented rotors.
> 
> For a street car, it doesn't matter if they're drilled, cast with
> holes, shot up by ghetto thugs, slotted, vented or etched with tiny
> smiley faces.  Most of the cooling you get from a big brake kit isn't
> from the rotor art, but more from the 2 piece rotor design and how the
> hat is mounted up (fully floating, rigid, etc).

that doesn't affect cooling so much as it prevents warping or coning
of the rotor due to differential expansion rates.

-teddy



		
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