03-26-2014, 09:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Eagle
This is key...holding the brake pedal down after heating up your pads will inevitabley cause your pads to melt and transfer ALOT of material to the rotor. Same goes for the parking brake, don't put your parking brake up!
Your rotors won't get warped, the correct term is "glazed". Also, this is not just a problem with our cars, this is a problem you could experience on just about any car if you drive it hard enough.
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I think you hit the nail on the head with this one... I'm pretty diligent about getting my brakes up to temperature before making them work hard, but I think I need to be better with giving them time to cool off. I'm pretty confident that alone will make a huge difference alone.
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Originally Posted by Joepro
I go through rotors like its my job, already getting a slight shake out of my Z1 2 piece rotors, Went through the stock set and and set of R1 concepts rotors already in 17k miles...we just got a new lathe at work, a pro-cut on car warthog, it will machine the rotor to the hub, that is in the near future for all 4 of my not so old rotors. I think it goes hand in hand with the brake cooling issues on this car, they get hot really fast and that is a contributing factor for sure.
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Are you getting spider webbing or cracking the rotors completely? You shouldn't be going through rotors that fast... Not even close. I know Koni Challenge series cars that are using only a few sets of brake discs over the course of a full season of racing, which is way more abuse than we are doing with HPDE, AutoX or time attack use if that's your thing.
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