Re: Pro's and Con's of drilled and slotted rotors
Posted: November 16th, 2011, 10:20 pm
True, but, for a set, they are (or, at least, they SHOULD be) engineered together. To say you can't know which rotors would break faster is like saying you can't know if the front brake pads would wear out faster or slower than the rear ones.Ryan wrote: Inodoro, the front and rear rotors are totally different designs. You can't say which would break faster.
Precisely my point. That crack could've appeared just as easily on a blank. And, no. Unfortunately, when it comes to cheap rotors, quality is seldom of any concern at all.Ryan wrote: The liklihood of a material flaw in these is just the same as a blank rotor. Hopefully less in the drilled rotor, if quality control is of any concern, since they'll be accounting for the holes.
I'd say what's interesting is that the crack goes all the way from the hub to the outer edge, while the rest of the hole (and the other holes) seem to be completely clean. Spider web cracks don't behave like that.Ryan wrote: Isn't it interesting that the crack passes RIGHT through the outer hole....
I agree on the "cheap" part. But that should be applied to any kind of rotor, or braking component.Ryan wrote: I still vote against cheap drilled rotors. Also, I have this sneaking suspicion that Brembo is riding along on their reputation from brilliant marketing, not their quality.
Brembo is doing what any company would do: making money off people's ignorance (Stereoking: I'm not talking about you).
If some idiot wants to put cheap cross drilled rotors on his car, because "they look cool", it makes sense to provide him with a cheap, good looking piece of garbage, so he can be happy while he kills himself. Take it as "artificial evolution of the species"...
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