...BTW your Bieber avatar is awesome.-Malone
the x-drilled rotors are probably made from higher strength steel to cope with heat stresses...i'm going to throw out an idea i've been having for a while now though, that will destroy brake systems and give light to the future. electromagnet brakes! oh yesss!!! instead of having a caliper, you have two circular stators that bolt to eachother and then bolt into the existing holes for the caliper mount. the stators have coils all around in an equal fashion. the new rotors will have permanent magnets embedded as well. this gives them the ability to produce electricity just think... the 'poor' (if someone can build this system cheap) man's 4 wheel drive . the front wheels turning produce energy to power the rear wheels. for braking, no more brake fluid, bleeding, and brake pads n warped/worn rotors. a simple PWM is used to 'pulse' the front brakes from the rear brakes as a certain ratio to keep the back end from breaking loose. essentially a 1.5:1 ratio front:back or something close. best part about this, is that for braking purposes, the system can be completely independant of the electrical system so it would be much more reliable (the front brakes power the rear brakes, and rear brakes power the front brakes and the pulse width modifier controls the force of the braking power) best part about that, is traction control can be easily implemented, and probably the most efficient ABS ever . as for heat, all ferrous metal from the brake system must be eliminated. ferrous metal is the worst for creating heat from resistance. with a ferrous rotor, i could see some bad things happening under extreme braking... i was thinking of using a high strength epoxy.how's that for an idea? a little over budget though huh but honestly, i wouldn't even worry about the rotors on these cars. i've never had my rotors warped... but i know GM and domestic cars have warped/crappy rotors all the time. i think the solid rotor config is the best... now as for those 'slotted' rotors, i think they're an ok idea. good way to get rid of brake dust and give better grip! however, you'd need a special lathe to do those, so it would be cheaper to wait for canadian tire to have those nascar ones on sale
Quote from: jtanguay on November 19, 2009, 11:22:33 amthe x-drilled rotors are probably made from higher strength steel to cope with heat stresses...i'm going to throw out an idea i've been having for a while now though, that will destroy brake systems and give light to the future. electromagnet brakes! oh yesss!!! instead of having a caliper, you have two circular stators that bolt to eachother and then bolt into the existing holes for the caliper mount. the stators have coils all around in an equal fashion. the new rotors will have permanent magnets embedded as well. this gives them the ability to produce electricity just think... the 'poor' (if someone can build this system cheap) man's 4 wheel drive . the front wheels turning produce energy to power the rear wheels. for braking, no more brake fluid, bleeding, and brake pads n warped/worn rotors. a simple PWM is used to 'pulse' the front brakes from the rear brakes as a certain ratio to keep the back end from breaking loose. essentially a 1.5:1 ratio front:back or something close. best part about this, is that for braking purposes, the system can be completely independant of the electrical system so it would be much more reliable (the front brakes power the rear brakes, and rear brakes power the front brakes and the pulse width modifier controls the force of the braking power) best part about that, is traction control can be easily implemented, and probably the most efficient ABS ever . as for heat, all ferrous metal from the brake system must be eliminated. ferrous metal is the worst for creating heat from resistance. with a ferrous rotor, i could see some bad things happening under extreme braking... i was thinking of using a high strength epoxy.how's that for an idea? a little over budget though huh but honestly, i wouldn't even worry about the rotors on these cars. i've never had my rotors warped... but i know GM and domestic cars have warped/crappy rotors all the time. i think the solid rotor config is the best... now as for those 'slotted' rotors, i think they're an ok idea. good way to get rid of brake dust and give better grip! however, you'd need a special lathe to do those, so it would be cheaper to wait for canadian tire to have those nascar ones on sale What about ebraking? That'd be terrible to yank the ebrake and......wait it would have to be an electric ebrake too.Well I like to slide so the ebrake would have to lock without effecting the front braking. And the antilocks would need to be switchable since it's fun to lock all four sometimes.Yeah thos drilled and slotted rotors look cool but I've never had a problem with the solid ones getting too hot.
I do know that I drive torque, while listening to my friends prattle on about horsepower.
brake material is generally treated to the same specs regardless if they are slotted or not. They are specc'ed to heat up up but not work or heat harden past their manufactured hardness.