[urq] Brake Overall (UFO tangent)

[Wolff]

Ken,
Based on my experience with very careful measurements, this is certainly
true.
http://www.succulents.com/quattro/ufo.html
Wolff
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Keith" <auditude at gmail.com>
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Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 12:32 PM
Subject: RE: [urq] Brake Overall (UFO tangent)


> "Schaible, David" <David.Schaible at jrspharma.com> wrote:
> >
> > Also several people reported unwarping ufo's by serious heating (several
> > hi speed stops) and then regular driving.....enough ufo bashing already!
>
> After recently reading a bit on Stoptech's website about the way pad
> material gets deposited on the rotors, and on other sites where the
> friction material is described as being swapped back and forth between
> rotor and pad, and the admonition not to stay on the brakes at rest
> after a spirited stop, I wonder if the UFO "warping" problems were
> more caused by uneven deposits of friction material on the surface of
> the rotor.
>
> If that was the cause, then the "fix" that people describe about doing
> the high speed stops might be more due to the removal of the uneven
> deposits than due to a corrected warpage.  It seems like it would be
> easier to successfully remove uneven friction material than to
> magically unwarp a warped rotor.  Maybe that method corrects the
> problem, but the reason is different than generally accepted.
>
> Since I haven't seen that mentioned anywhere, I thought I'd throw it
> out there.  Has anyone with supposedly "warped" UFO rotors measured
> them to see if they were actually warped rather than a friction
> material deposition thing?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ken
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