[s-cars] Rotor hats and rings

[Taka Mizutani]

Eric-
I respectfully disagree- maybe you can point me to some info that supports
your statement.

If loss of mass at the hub was a significant detriment to brake performance,
you would not see multi-piece rotors used in motorsports as much. Do you
have access to any experiments that show measured temps of the brake rotor
in several areas to see where the heat goes?

Taka


On 4/12/06, Eric Phillips <gcmschemist at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 4/11/06, Taka Mizutani <t44tqtro at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Eric-
> > Losing weight at the rotor hat is not going to significantly affect
> thermal
> > mass, so
> > if you can afford the $$$, I'd say go for the 2-piece rotors, fixed hat,
> > with directional
> > vanes, no cross-drilling, if possible.
>
> http://www.bira.org/info_main.html
>
> Just as a basis for comparison, the Coleman Repli-Rotors are half the
> mass of stock Audi rotors.
>
> Thermal mass is thermal mass - conduction means that the hat is as
> much in play as the rotor surface itself.
>
> The rest of your statement is 100% percent true.
>