Drilled, slotted or both?
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The guy you quoted also said this
2) The brakes function by converting the kinetic energy of the car into thermal energy during deceleration - producing heat, lots of heat - which must then be transferred into the surroundings and into the air stream
Do you really believe that?
here is the link again.
http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/show...hreadid=368072
2) The brakes function by converting the kinetic energy of the car into thermal energy during deceleration - producing heat, lots of heat - which must then be transferred into the surroundings and into the air stream
Do you really believe that?
here is the link again.
http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/show...hreadid=368072
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Yes, that sounds about right. While I don't have any first hand engineering knowledge of brakes, that statement is at least the general principal behind braking.
Also, here is my recommendation for a street brake setup, assuming you have the 4-piston calipers:
Brembo blanks (or other quality OEM style rotors)
Hawk HPS pads (bar none the best street pad I have every used)
After that use a good quality brake fluid and make sure your lines are in good shape. Stainless lines are not generally recommended for street use due to the possibility of premature failure on the street. New OEM lines work just fine.
Also, here is my recommendation for a street brake setup, assuming you have the 4-piston calipers:
Brembo blanks (or other quality OEM style rotors)
Hawk HPS pads (bar none the best street pad I have every used)
After that use a good quality brake fluid and make sure your lines are in good shape. Stainless lines are not generally recommended for street use due to the possibility of premature failure on the street. New OEM lines work just fine.
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My personal setup currently:
4-pot brakes
Power Slot Cryo Rotors (Slotted)
Hawk HPS Pads (Will test Porterfield R4-S next)
Pennzoil DOT 4 Brake Fluid
SS Brake Lines
Started to fade a little during my last couple of runs, I'm thinking of switching to RBF600 before my next session.
Also, I agree with that warning about SS Lines, even though I currently run them. You don't want to have your brake lines suddenly fail on you.
Too bad racingbrake doesn't have anything for the 5 lug, 4-pot FC's!
Are you currently running a set of curved directional vane two-piece rotors? Where can I get some?
4-pot brakes
Power Slot Cryo Rotors (Slotted)
Hawk HPS Pads (Will test Porterfield R4-S next)
Pennzoil DOT 4 Brake Fluid
SS Brake Lines
Started to fade a little during my last couple of runs, I'm thinking of switching to RBF600 before my next session.
Also, I agree with that warning about SS Lines, even though I currently run them. You don't want to have your brake lines suddenly fail on you.
Are you currently running a set of curved directional vane two-piece rotors? Where can I get some?
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Neither. TII brakes with high performance pads. They don't fade (which is what you'd be going drilled or slotted for) and they stop just fine. Slotted wears away at your pads like an eraser, and drilled disks crack.
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There seems to be a general consensus that "drilled rotors crack" and SS brake lines fail on a more regular basis than rubber lines, yet in nearly forty years of wrenching I've never seen either of these phenomena occur personally.
Long before you could buy drilled rotors (or they came standard from the factory) we drilled our race bike rotors and custom built brake lines and never had any problems.
Of course, as with any aftermarket part, there is good stuff and crap stuff and I wouldn't be surprised to see failure with the cheap parts but if braided lines and drilled rotors were so failure prone they wouldn't come as OEM on high performance vehicles- yet they do.
Naturally, this doesn't address the issue of whether a street car needs these race-inspired parts (probably not) nor whether the owner is even aware of the free bonus he gets from the rotors...that weird whirring noise that drilled rotors make under use.
Long before you could buy drilled rotors (or they came standard from the factory) we drilled our race bike rotors and custom built brake lines and never had any problems.
Of course, as with any aftermarket part, there is good stuff and crap stuff and I wouldn't be surprised to see failure with the cheap parts but if braided lines and drilled rotors were so failure prone they wouldn't come as OEM on high performance vehicles- yet they do.
Naturally, this doesn't address the issue of whether a street car needs these race-inspired parts (probably not) nor whether the owner is even aware of the free bonus he gets from the rotors...that weird whirring noise that drilled rotors make under use.
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I haven't tried thid on my 7, but for street use this combo has worked exceptionally well on other cars. Stock rotors unless you think drilled/slotted look sexy. Dot 4 fluid after a good flush. SS lines. Axxis Ultra pads.
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Originally Posted by Turbo II Rotor
I have tII calipers with drilled and slotted rotors and I love them. Easy to lock up with the emergency brake and the carwill throw you at the dash under hard braking.
Originally Posted by RotaMan99
I find the best upgrade I did to improve braking on my car was the SS brake line.
Originally Posted by Turbo II Rotor
The guy you quoted also said this
2) The brakes function by converting the kinetic energy of the car into thermal energy during deceleration - producing heat, lots of heat - which must then be transferred into the surroundings and into the air stream
Do you really believe that?
2) The brakes function by converting the kinetic energy of the car into thermal energy during deceleration - producing heat, lots of heat - which must then be transferred into the surroundings and into the air stream
Do you really believe that?
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To say that cross drilled rotors WILL crack is wrong. This depends on the qaulity of the rotors and how many holes are driled in a line to sacrafice the integrity to the point of cracking. I have slotted and drilled rotors on my car from Irotors.com. They have 3 holes drilled in a row with a lot of meat between them and at the center and ends of the rotor. Personally, I don't reccomend getting drilled and slotted. Maybe just slotted. I find the best upgrade I did to improve braking on my car was the SS brake line. The rotors did very little with braking efficientcy.
Here is some info I found
http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/show...hreadid=368072
I once had the metal backing of the brack pad wear down the rotor to half its size and the rotor STILL did not crack. This was years ago, wont tell ya how it happend The rotor was only about 3/16" thick after.
I have had these rotors for about 4 years now with no problems except the one above and a slight manufactuer defect in one of them I got which will be swapped out under warrenty now that I have time to take my daily driver off the road.
Here is some info I found
http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/show...hreadid=368072
I once had the metal backing of the brack pad wear down the rotor to half its size and the rotor STILL did not crack. This was years ago, wont tell ya how it happend The rotor was only about 3/16" thick after.
I have had these rotors for about 4 years now with no problems except the one above and a slight manufactuer defect in one of them I got which will be swapped out under warrenty now that I have time to take my daily driver off the road.
i agree with rotaman99, i went to school for this stuff, basically, combo of pads and rotors for the type of racing that your going to do.... as far as rotor craking, if you abuse the with the wrong pads (race pads, hard breaking) even the quality products dont stand a chance....nice question though, this kind of threads stir everyone up.
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You would've got about the same result from using new rubber lines. Most of the benefit comes from getting rid of the old lines, not because SS is so much better than rubber
Stainless lines are not generally recommended for street use due to the possibility of premature failure on the street.
Slotted wears away at your pads like an eraser, and drilled disks crack.
Originally Posted by clokker
so failure prone they wouldn't come as OEM on high performance vehicles
Do you really believe that?
Drilling and slotting do the same exact thing as the other. There is no need to get both. I felt little gains from swapping the rotors on, the difference I felt was they seem to brake quicker. This could also just be me since I never paid attention to my brakes before I got the rotors.
Also no one drills holes in the rotors no more, its all cast. Which allows the rotor to be stronger then if you just drilled the holes.
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I'm going to jump in here against my better judgement because you are doing it again. You are spreading misinformation and taking what is in your head which is WRONG and stating it as fact. NZ' Vert is absolutely right, you have no business in a conversation about brakes.... NONE! Very few of us do. Call the manufacturer of a QUALITY brake product, not powerslot or stop or any of those crappy companies. Get fact from people who build these things and actually do track testing and build them for professional race teams who actually need the product for more reason than oh cool you got blingy brakes...
If you don't do any tracking, you drive an N/A, if you're driving around on the streets in a manner that would require high performance (not just for looks which yours OBVIOUSLY are for if they are both slotted and drilled ) than NZ is right AGAIN, you should be in jail. Most of your reasons which you mentioned above are blatantly wrong!!! The machining thins the metal making it more susceptable to heat and cracking through less mass.
I have DOT cert CUSTOM brake lines on my car.... what's your point? You're looking in the wrong place.
They most certainly do not. They may both vent gasses but one is instended to cool pads the other is inteded to heat them. You are wrong.
Than why do you have both?
There you go again!!! Have you actaully called every single brake rotor manufacture and asked them how they manufacture thier own product? I highly doubt it. You CONSTANTLY speak your mind as fact & it is OFTEN flat out wrong. Those must be some really bitching molds though becuase the friction surface is just about always MACHINED when you get a new rotor isn't it?
I don't do track racing with my car but my pads have been on for a little over a year right now with slotted rotors and there is still little over half the meat on the pads left. Also, I don't agree with the drilled rotor statment, this depends on factors that I mentioned above.
They most certainly do not. They may both vent gasses but one is instended to cool pads the other is inteded to heat them. You are wrong.
There you go again!!! Have you actaully called every single brake rotor manufacture and asked them how they manufacture thier own product? I highly doubt it. You CONSTANTLY speak your mind as fact & it is OFTEN flat out wrong. Those must be some really bitching molds though becuase the friction surface is just about always MACHINED when you get a new rotor isn't it?
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It was said earlier and it was absoluetely correct - slotted rotors eat away at pads. There is a reason for that. It has to do with the design of them. I caution EVERYONE here when dealing with brakes, deal with the company and MATCH products to your application. Unless you are tracking your car, be it auto-x or actual track, you really don't need bigger or better brakes. Good OEM rotors and MAYBE some mild performance pads would be just fine. I track my car, I still went with a mild pad and x-drilled rotors. I went with the MILD pad becuase my car is still street driven so I don't want the noise, the dust and the nastiness but I need GOOD initial bite. Remeber that first turn in auto-x your brakes are pretty much stone cold.
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Throwing my few cents (plus a Masters in materials science and 8 years working in stress, fatigue, and fracture in metals) into this- It doesn't matter whether 'drilled' rotors are actually drilled or whether the holes are cast in them, the potential issues with cracking and premature (compared to solid rotors) failure have to do with there being holes in the rotors period, not how they get there. Honestly you're likely better off with a nice shiny machined finish than with a rough casting since there's less likely to be a defect that could cause a crack to initiate and the rotor to fail. But having holes in the rotor means there's less area for the load (both physical and thermal) to dissipate over, and basic physics says that they're on average going to fail sooner than a solid rotor.
Granted, under halfway normal driving conditions, you shouldn't be causing enough stress on them to make that much of a difference between the two- but it's a simple fact that a drilled rotor will be more likely to fail sooner than an identical un-drilled rotor.
Granted, under halfway normal driving conditions, you shouldn't be causing enough stress on them to make that much of a difference between the two- but it's a simple fact that a drilled rotor will be more likely to fail sooner than an identical un-drilled rotor.
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If you don't do any tracking, you drive an N/A, if you're driving around on the streets in a manner that would require high performance (not just for looks which yours OBVIOUSLY are for if they are both slotted and drilled ) than NZ is right AGAIN, you should be in jail. Most of your reasons which you mentioned above are blatantly wrong!!! The machining thins the metal making it more susceptable to heat and cracking through less mass.
I have DOT cert CUSTOM brake lines on my car.... what's your point? You're looking in the wrong place.
They most certainly do not. They may both vent gasses but one is instended to cool pads the other is inteded to heat them. You are wrong.
Than why do you have both?
There you go again!!! Have you actaully called every single brake rotor manufacture and asked them how they manufacture thier own product
It was said earlier and it was absoluetely correct - slotted rotors eat away at pads.
NZ' Vert is absolutely right, you have no business in a conversation about brakes
the potential issues with cracking and premature (compared to solid rotors) failure have to do with there being holes in the rotors period
TT, this whole time you have been stretching my statements to mean something completly different then what I intended the statements to mean. Back off!
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Holes in the rotors are stress concentrations so will increase the likelyhood of cracking, it doesn't guarantee it, but it increases the odds.
Drilling removes mass and therefore thermal capacity from the rotors, which means that for a given heat addition they'll get hotter.
Pads outgassing hasn't been a problem for a long time now. Any good source will tell you that.
Racing pads on stock rotors works just fine. You can get a full set of rotors from places like NAPA for under $100 that work just fine, even on track (personal experiance).
Look at the brakes in the paddock of a race track on a race weekend and you'll see that 95%+ use plain, undrilled, unslotted rotors.
Drilling removes mass and therefore thermal capacity from the rotors, which means that for a given heat addition they'll get hotter.
Pads outgassing hasn't been a problem for a long time now. Any good source will tell you that.
Racing pads on stock rotors works just fine. You can get a full set of rotors from places like NAPA for under $100 that work just fine, even on track (personal experiance).
Look at the brakes in the paddock of a race track on a race weekend and you'll see that 95%+ use plain, undrilled, unslotted rotors.
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Connecticut and New Hampshire are pretty close to each other. Why don't you lovers just meet up and settle your differences the old fashioned way?
Seriously, your ongoing hatred for each other is not contributing to the forum. You are both better that this...
Connecticut and New Hampshire are pretty close to each other. Why don't you lovers just meet up and settle your differences the old fashioned way?
Seriously, your ongoing hatred for each other is not contributing to the forum. You are both better that this...
I'm going to jump in here against my better judgement because you are doing it again. You are spreading misinformation and taking what is in your head which is WRONG and stating it as fact. NZ' Vert is absolutely right, you have no business in a conversation about brakes.... NONE! Very few of us do. Call the manufacturer of a QUALITY brake product, not powerslot or stop or any of those crappy companies. Get fact from people who build these things and actually do track testing and build them for professional race teams who actually need the product for more reason than oh cool you got blingy brakes...
If you don't do any tracking, you drive an N/A, if you're driving around on the streets in a manner that would require high performance (not just for looks which yours OBVIOUSLY are for if they are both slotted and drilled ) than NZ is right AGAIN, you should be in jail. Most of your reasons which you mentioned above are blatantly wrong!!! The machining thins the metal making it more susceptable to heat and cracking through less mass.
I have DOT cert CUSTOM brake lines on my car.... what's your point? You're looking in the wrong place.
They most certainly do not. They may both vent gasses but one is instended to cool pads the other is inteded to heat them. You are wrong.
Than why do you have both?
There you go again!!! Have you actaully called every single brake rotor manufacture and asked them how they manufacture thier own product? I highly doubt it. You CONSTANTLY speak your mind as fact & it is OFTEN flat out wrong. Those must be some really bitching molds though becuase the friction surface is just about always MACHINED when you get a new rotor isn't it?
If you don't do any tracking, you drive an N/A, if you're driving around on the streets in a manner that would require high performance (not just for looks which yours OBVIOUSLY are for if they are both slotted and drilled ) than NZ is right AGAIN, you should be in jail. Most of your reasons which you mentioned above are blatantly wrong!!! The machining thins the metal making it more susceptable to heat and cracking through less mass.
I have DOT cert CUSTOM brake lines on my car.... what's your point? You're looking in the wrong place.
They most certainly do not. They may both vent gasses but one is instended to cool pads the other is inteded to heat them. You are wrong.
Than why do you have both?
There you go again!!! Have you actaully called every single brake rotor manufacture and asked them how they manufacture thier own product? I highly doubt it. You CONSTANTLY speak your mind as fact & it is OFTEN flat out wrong. Those must be some really bitching molds though becuase the friction surface is just about always MACHINED when you get a new rotor isn't it?
You need to stop spreading misinformation and stop putting words in my mouth. I NEVER EVER said that. I said try different wheel spacer till they fit!
You also read what I wrote after that right? Or do you not know how to read?
2 12g wires and that is better then nothing that was there before. I don't have a problem with it, everything works, so why complain. Did you see me do a writeup on using 2 12ga wires as a ground between the firewall and tranny housing? NOPE! I like how you specified that I used red. Are you going to say that the color maters?
If Steve has seen the writeups, and hasn't changed anything or corrected anything, then what I typed coming from knowledge, is correct. I wouldn't take any advice from you on wiring thats for damn sure. You have been shot down before about wiring. you and your marine grade ****. Weather proof your connections and you WONT HAVE AN ISSUE!
Oh so your contridicting your self now? you said slots increase heat, that is removing mass. Doesn't cause them to heat up but to retain more heat. The less mass the rotor has, the less heat its able to absorb.
You also read what I wrote after that right? Or do you not know how to read?
2 12g wires and that is better then nothing that was there before. I don't have a problem with it, everything works, so why complain. Did you see me do a writeup on using 2 12ga wires as a ground between the firewall and tranny housing? NOPE! I like how you specified that I used red. Are you going to say that the color maters?
If Steve has seen the writeups, and hasn't changed anything or corrected anything, then what I typed coming from knowledge, is correct. I wouldn't take any advice from you on wiring thats for damn sure. You have been shot down before about wiring. you and your marine grade ****. Weather proof your connections and you WONT HAVE AN ISSUE!
Oh so your contridicting your self now? you said slots increase heat, that is removing mass. Doesn't cause them to heat up but to retain more heat. The less mass the rotor has, the less heat its able to absorb.
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Daily driving plus some now and then spirited driving and my pads don't wear down real quick, this is what I was talking about, I was telling everyone that for daily driving, your pads wont get warn down as quick as they might when you are using them hard all the time. What the hell is your problem?
B) You know what my problem is.
Again, you're not reading, I said a few different sources, not just one.
From the horses mouth - My best friend in the world I told him to read this tread to get a laugh. I asked him to write a few things for me to post; here's what he said.
properly cast and drilled cross drilled rotors will run approx 200-250 degrees cooler for sdtreet use and certainly have their place / benefit... a slotted rotor is greast for a car seeing a lot of track time because they run consistent temps and give very even perf......
cross drilled AND slotted are not a great way to go because they negate the benefits of both by creating hot and cool spots which can lead to cracking....
people have horror stories about drilled discs because of misinformation or bad experiences they have had with an improperly drilled or cheap disc...
cross drilled AND slotted are not a great way to go because they negate the benefits of both by creating hot and cool spots which can lead to cracking....
people have horror stories about drilled discs because of misinformation or bad experiences they have had with an improperly drilled or cheap disc...
FWIW here is his M3 Comp Edition - Total overkill and he know's it, but it's a rolling advertisement
Front = 380mm disc, 6 piston monoblock
Rear = 345mm disc, 4 piston 2 peice
I'm NOT giving out his work e-mail but if someone seriously wants to talk to him, PM me.
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"the process of drilling rotors and slotting rotors was done for 1 reason and 1 reason only it is to disipate the gases that build up between the pad and the rotor which occurs under extreme heat ( when braking very aggressively like on a road course) and it has absolutely nothing to do with heat disipation."
this was quoted earlier in the thread. Did I miss something? Heat has gas-like properties. Dissipating "gases" is actually dissipating heat. A drilled or slotted rotor is like a heat sink, more surface area= more cooling. One thing though is that it is very hard to resurface drilled or slotted rotors, may or may not be an issue for you...
this was quoted earlier in the thread. Did I miss something? Heat has gas-like properties. Dissipating "gases" is actually dissipating heat. A drilled or slotted rotor is like a heat sink, more surface area= more cooling. One thing though is that it is very hard to resurface drilled or slotted rotors, may or may not be an issue for you...
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You are giving people your opinion on a daily driven car that you admitted to NOT doing the research on. You are spreading WRONG information and passing it off as fact.
Well of course they don't because the rotors you bought are designed for ONE thing and ONE thing only...... BLING!!!!! Slotted rotors from a reputable company that are designed to function will eat away at your pads... PERIOD
OP would have listened to you and bought a useless product.
Where did I ever say to the OP to GET these rotors? SHOW ME! SHOW ME! SHOW ME! O wait, you will make something up just like that e-fan thread when I said I don't have a belly pan and I don't have an issue and you ASSUMED that I ment you don't need a belly pan at all when that is not what I ment at all in any fashion.
Stop twisting my words around, your making your self look bad.
I'm NOT giving out his work e-mail but if someone seriously wants to talk to him, PM me.
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This is 100% bull. Slotted is slotted. The slots on my rotors have a bunch of brake dust and crap in them. Even if I bought $9000 slotted rotors with cheapo brake pads which I use, they still wouldn't get eaten away because I am not using them in the fashion they were designed to be used in.
Don't you DARE, don't you EVER accuse me of spreading mis-information. How much of your crap should I link? I'll be the first to admit when I don't know the answer to something yet you constantly get into every thread you can to give bunk info. The freaking wheel thread: Justin's Answer: I don't know, keep adding (STACKING) them until they fit.
You don't know yet you vomited dangerous garbage on the net that someone might have actaully followed.
FWIW = proves nothing.... here's a pretty pic, here's what the guy who can have just about any braking product he can get has. I also said, "Total overkill..... rolling advertisement." As for finding something better for an M3.. I promise you, you can't. One off kit When you make a product that actaully preforms a function people buy it. When ALOT of people buy your product you can drop $7,000 into a rolling ad. Me, I put 10% of that into my brakes and it's just fine becuase I actually did some freaking research before I spent some $$