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SportTrac Discussion
General Sport Trac Discussion
New Brakes and Rotors
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<blockquote data-quote="Richard L" data-source="post: 986303" data-attributes="member: 52972"><p>My opinion is that drilled rotors are not needed on the street. They only provide additional cooling if you do a lot of hard braking and they increase brake pad wear. Solid rotors will provide more friction surface area and provide more stopping power for a single panic/hard stop during the occasional emergency situation like you described and thus will give shorter stops provided you do not overheat them. If you are overheating your brakes on the street, you are probably driving way too fast...and relying too much on your brakes to get you out of trouble. That strategy is hard on the brakes and prone to early brake failure.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Remember that most Racing brakes are rebuilt after each race or every few races because they have very heavy abuse in just a few miles of racing. If you drive like that on the street you would need to rebuild the brakes every thousand miles or so.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>...Rich</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Richard L, post: 986303, member: 52972"] My opinion is that drilled rotors are not needed on the street. They only provide additional cooling if you do a lot of hard braking and they increase brake pad wear. Solid rotors will provide more friction surface area and provide more stopping power for a single panic/hard stop during the occasional emergency situation like you described and thus will give shorter stops provided you do not overheat them. If you are overheating your brakes on the street, you are probably driving way too fast...and relying too much on your brakes to get you out of trouble. That strategy is hard on the brakes and prone to early brake failure. Remember that most Racing brakes are rebuilt after each race or every few races because they have very heavy abuse in just a few miles of racing. If you drive like that on the street you would need to rebuild the brakes every thousand miles or so. ...Rich [/QUOTE]
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