Originally posted by: randay
Um, your car will come with brakes strong enough to stop your car... otherwise why would it come with brakes at all?
Ever press down on the pedal and not be able to stop???
That's why you have bigger rotors.
Originally posted by: randay
Um, your car will come with brakes strong enough to stop your car... otherwise why would it come with brakes at all?
Originally posted by: spidey07
Originally posted by: randay
Um, your car will come with brakes strong enough to stop your car... otherwise why would it come with brakes at all?
Ever press down on the pedal and not be able to stop???
That's why you have bigger rotors.
Originally posted by: I Saw OJ
I watched a Hotrod TV episode a while back where they replaced a Camaros stock disc brakes with a nice set of larger Brembos. With just a disc and pad swap it greatly reduced the 100-0 and 60-0 stopping distance of the camaro.
Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Originally posted by: I Saw OJ
I watched a Hotrod TV episode a while back where they replaced a Camaros stock disc brakes with a nice set of larger Brembos. With just a disc and pad swap it greatly reduced the 100-0 and 60-0 stopping distance of the camaro.
That's because the show is sponsored by these companies. You can also find reviews that "prove" that the tornado, and other bogus mods work.
It most definitely will not shorten the 60-0 stopping distance, since that is a limitation of the tires. If you jam on the brakes with even stock rotors and pads, the tires will skid.
Originally posted by: I Saw OJ
I watched a Hotrod TV episode a while back where they replaced a Camaros stock disc brakes with a nice set of larger Brembos. With just a disc and pad swap it greatly reduced the 100-0 and 60-0 stopping distance of the camaro.
Originally posted by: I Saw OJ
Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Originally posted by: I Saw OJ
I watched a Hotrod TV episode a while back where they replaced a Camaros stock disc brakes with a nice set of larger Brembos. With just a disc and pad swap it greatly reduced the 100-0 and 60-0 stopping distance of the camaro.
That's because the show is sponsored by these companies. You can also find reviews that "prove" that the tornado, and other bogus mods work.
It most definitely will not shorten the 60-0 stopping distance, since that is a limitation of the tires. If you jam on the brakes with even stock rotors and pads, the tires will skid.
I can jam the brakes in my Cobra, which has stock brakes, pads and tires and the tires do not skid.
BTW are you compairing the tornado to Brembo brakes?
Originally posted by: nineball9
Originally posted by: I Saw OJ
I watched a Hotrod TV episode a while back where they replaced a Camaros stock disc brakes with a nice set of larger Brembos. With just a disc and pad swap it greatly reduced the 100-0 and 60-0 stopping distance of the camaro.
The custom brake pads/rotors may have had a higher coefficient of friction, or perhaps better heat dissipation, or possibly flatter surfaces than stock (to maintain constant surface contact). Maybe just better mechanical design; rotors, pads, calipers etc come in many designs.
Or perhaps, as 91TTZ noted, it's just that the show is sponsored by these companies. (Sorry, I know zilch about "Brembos")
Originally posted by: I Saw OJ
I can jam the brakes in my Cobra, which has stock brakes, pads and tires and the tires do not skid.
BTW are you compairing the tornado to Brembo brakes?
Originally posted by: 91TTZ
No.
Even the aforementioned Civic has enough braking power to skid.
Please list one car that has brakes too weak to make it skid (or activate ABS).
After repeated braking, they'll fade, though. But that's not what happens in an emergency situation.
Originally posted by: TankGuys
Surface area won't increase the friction at all. The only way to increase the friction is to use material on the rotor/pads with a higher coefficient of friction, or to increase the force with which the calipers squeeze. To the surprise of many, surface area does not matter![]()
Originally posted by: spidey07
Originally posted by: 91TTZ
No.
Even the aforementioned Civic has enough braking power to skid.
Please list one car that has brakes too weak to make it skid (or activate ABS).
After repeated braking, they'll fade, though. But that's not what happens in an emergency situation.
I was talking about when you're tearing up the twisties and your brakes turn to mush.
Originally posted by: randay
Originally posted by: Jahee
Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Originally posted by: Jahee
Originally posted by: giantpinkbunnyhead
My guess would be that larger rotors provide more surface area for heat dissipation, thus keeping brakes cooler and reducing fade. Plus, if you're going to bigger rotors, you'll probably have bigger calipers and pads as well.
You forgot the big one... Bigger surface area for friction!!
That's not really a bottleneck, though. Even stock brakes produce enough friction to make the tires skid.
Thats true... Though in high performance cars (which are most likely to have bigger rotors), the width of the tire increases aswell, as, generally will the weight, meaning "average" brakes won't generate enough force to lock the wheel.
Um, your car will come with brakes strong enough to stop your car... otherwise why would it come with brakes at all?
Originally posted by: slag
bigger rotors=more friction area for braking. Also bigger rotors dissapate heat better due to larger surface area.
Originally posted by: Jahee
Thats not my point. Take, for example a BMW M3, with 500-700 extra pounds of weight + wider tires. over a small hatchback, for example a civic, will the civics brakes generate enough force to lock a wheel? im guessing not likely.