anybody try these?
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anybody try these? slotted and drilled rotors...what are your thouhts on them..I mean these in the link not just any of them
http://www.ws6project.com/user_stor/...5bff12a3e6bd14
http://www.ws6project.com/user_stor/...5bff12a3e6bd14
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have you tried searching? there are dozens of threads on these as well as other slotted and drilled rotors.
have you read the sticky at the top of the forum? slotted and drilled hurts braking performance and durability.
have you read the sticky at the top of the forum? slotted and drilled hurts braking performance and durability.
actually, i have the drilled and slotted from the ws6 store and im probably the hardest person on brakes in the world (changed my pads 9 times in 2 years) and i absolutely love them! u can totally tell a complete diffrence. going from 120-140 to say 50 mph i would get horrible brake fade and my stock rotors warped pretty bad. ive done the same stops with the drilled and slotted brake fade was next to none it stops faster shorter and they have yet to warp had them for about 11 months.
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actually, i have the drilled and slotted from the ws6 store and im probably the hardest person on brakes in the world (changed my pads 9 times in 2 years) and i absolutely love them! u can totally tell a complete diffrence. going from 120-140 to say 50 mph i would get horrible brake fade and my stock rotors warped pretty bad. ive done the same stops with the drilled and slotted brake fade was next to none it stops faster shorter and they have yet to warp had them for about 11 months.
I don't see any smart comments.... He's right, both about the sticky and the fact that drilling and or cutting slots in a rotor hurt it's integrity and cost you some amount of swept area.
The brake fade that the one gentleman eliminated would be pads. I bet he changed pads at the same time, and pads fade, rotors do not. And better pads make life easier on any rotor. Faded pads create more and more heat which is put into the rotor. Why? Because faded pads don't stop. You then pound on the brakes harder and longer and that builds more heat. Rotors are heat sinks, and the more mass there is, the better that heat is absorbed.
I have no doubt THEBRAD has better brakes. I just don't agree that it's because of the rotors being drilled or slotted. Could be because the rotors weren't glazed, or from better pads.....
The brake fade that the one gentleman eliminated would be pads. I bet he changed pads at the same time, and pads fade, rotors do not. And better pads make life easier on any rotor. Faded pads create more and more heat which is put into the rotor. Why? Because faded pads don't stop. You then pound on the brakes harder and longer and that builds more heat. Rotors are heat sinks, and the more mass there is, the better that heat is absorbed.
I have no doubt THEBRAD has better brakes. I just don't agree that it's because of the rotors being drilled or slotted. Could be because the rotors weren't glazed, or from better pads.....
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actually i used brand new pads with both setups and they were the same ones also. just some autozone carbon metallics. i used them with the stockers and with the drilled and slotted. and the stockers had been turned because they were warped so they werent glazed the second time i put them on there with new pads, at least i hope not lol
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The same brand pad, but a different set of pads is indeed a pad change. And both pads and rotors can and do glaze. Drilling and/or slotting rotors does not help brake fade or bite in any way.
Most race cars do not use drilled rotors because that's metal that you're missing and can't contact the brake pad--it's like running smaller pads. Racing cars do use slotted rotors, but that's for gassing, and gassing is a race pad thing that happens when things get so hot the rotors glow red. Race cars don't usually have power brakes, and any gas boundary layer hurts the amount of force you can apply through the pads to the discs.
YMMV. Simply a matter of physics. Again, I don't doubt the car stops better. I disagree about why it does.
Most race cars do not use drilled rotors because that's metal that you're missing and can't contact the brake pad--it's like running smaller pads. Racing cars do use slotted rotors, but that's for gassing, and gassing is a race pad thing that happens when things get so hot the rotors glow red. Race cars don't usually have power brakes, and any gas boundary layer hurts the amount of force you can apply through the pads to the discs.
YMMV. Simply a matter of physics. Again, I don't doubt the car stops better. I disagree about why it does.
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