In a message dated 2/9/01 12:58:31 PM Pacific Standard Time,
marcsayer@home.com writes:
> Drilled rotors and slotted rotors are both addressing the same problem, brake
> fade due to a buildup of some sort of material between the pad and the
> rotor,
> such as a buildup of gasses due to outgassing of the pad, or a buildup of
> water.
>
First of all... thanks for the wonderful information Marc! I didnt read who
was the writer of the email but I knew it had to be you. Thanks again!
In regard to the cross-drilled rotors. While at the race track i noticed
that a few of the guys with drilled rotors would spend time using a
screwdriver to pop out the built-up brake dust in the rotor drill holes. I
thought that was interesting. I then walked around and looked through the
wheels of other cars to see if the rotor drills were plugged up. Sure
enough, many of them were but the drivers didn know that. But the slotted
discs seemed to be clean.
This makes me feel that the drilled rotors would be less then ideal for the
track since these "heated gas" vent holes were not going to do the job after
several hot laps.
Michael "Calspeed" Carion
67.5 SRL311-000248 Solex (w/ stock rotors)
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