A note on carbon pads and rotors...MAKE SURE THEY ARE VERY HOT! After
spending thousands of hours on a new A-mod car we put a driver in and sent
him to bed the pads in the normal fashion. 30 seconds later a squeal and
crash were heard as he drove through a split rail fence. Driver still
claims the car sped up when he steped on the brakes, but I doubt it.
Ian
>From: "datsunmike" <datsunmike@nyc.rr.com>
>Reply-To: "datsunmike" <datsunmike@nyc.rr.com>
>To: "Thomas - Sweden" <csp311@telia.com>, <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
>Subject: Re: Question about front disc brakes
>Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 06:28:58 -0400
>
>I was watching a race and one of the rotors disintegrated on one of the
>cars
>and the commentators did mention something about cross drilling. Seems that
>almost all racing cars use regular rotors or those ceramic/carbon fiber
>rotors which are superlight but super expensive.
>
>When I went to a race at Lime Rock I noticed that the cars didn't use cross
>drilled rotors. I guess mass is good for something in racing.
>
>The only place I see the drilled rotors are on rice cars because they look
>cool and go well with those 18" super low profile tires and slammed
>suspensions that hip hop on every little bump on the road :) And of course
>the rear wings and body kits!!!!
>
>Mike
>
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