Originally Posted by Solracer
Would you like me to dig up picturw\es of cracked power slot rotrs? I have bunch's ,Drilling weakens any rotor, I have pictures of cracked Porsche 959 rotors down to cross drilled civic rotors.
power SLOT and power STOP are
TWO DIFFERENT COMPANY'S
I said:
http://www.power****stop****brakes.com/
reading > you
now, then....
Cross Drilled rotors do not decrease stopping distance, no one has ever been able to proves this. Cross Drilled rotors do improve pedal feel, but improved pedal fell does not equal improved stopping distance.
perhaps your should re-read this artical:
http://www.off-road.com/isuzu/womb_brakes.html
but wait, you can't distinguish SLOT from STOP, so why would I expect you to read a test of different 60-0 and 70-0 stops with trucks with huge tires and the like..... I know, they're trucks, but disk brakes are disk brakes.....
If you took your car with brand new autozone Blanks pads and fluid; measured the stopping distance it would be the same or less than your car with crossdilled rotors with the same pads and new fluid.
fluid is another great upgrade. No one ever said it wasn't.
Read these pages
http://www.stoptech.com/technical/ There is a lot of great information on brakes there, Willwod even says in the liturature that the cross drill the rotor for looks not to improve stopping distance...
according to that website:
Slotted:
1. Disc: Shallow, sharp edged but radiused bottom grooves milled into cast iron discs to provide leading edges for bite and a path for the fire band of gases and incandescent friction material to be dissipated through. If the slots fill up with pad material, the system is operating at too high a temperature.
so I guess slotted rotors do keep things cool....
also:
Properly designed, drilled discs tend to operate cooler than non-drilled ventilated discs of the same design due the higher flow rates through the vents from the supplemental inlets and increased surface area in the hole. That's right, inlets, the flow is into the hole and out through the vent to the OD of the disc.
again, if you were to buy apc rotors, you'd get cracking super easily.
I have never seen any one truly fade brakes driving on the street with good fluid, if you are then you are druving your crazier on the the street than any one. With good fluid and good pads and new oem replacement rotors my stopping power of the del sol is awesome. But what do I know I only drive on Road Course for 15 to 20 min sessions where I am constaly brakeing from 110 to 45 mph for 10 to 20 laps... and I have yet to fade my stock brakes (with better pads and Dot 5.1 fluid)
but what about new pads, new c-d/s rotors, and new brake fluid? :rick:
point is, I drive. Alot. I put close to an average 600 miles a
week. I've had these for 10k miles with no problems. I know my car intimatly. I would know if these negativly effected me, and as it stands, they don't.