cross drilled rotors Scott Williams is WRONG!

[brett@netacc.net (Brett Van Sprewenburg)]

>--- Brett Van Sprewenburg <brett@netacc.net> wrote:
> > As I mentioned in one of my posts, most of the tweeking we do to our
>street driven cars braking systems don't really matter as we generally
>do not drive the cars hard enough for it to make a big difference...
> > Tuning it to how you like it can include caliper piston diameters,
> > master cylinder diameter, rotor dimensions, pad compounds, etc all
> >factor into it.
> > However, we probably shouldn't say that changing these items is
> > a universal performance enhancement without understanding what
> > variables it's affecting, or how the braking system actually works.
>
>A favorite old Physics professor asked us: what stops the car?
>Everybody said brakes.  WRONG. It's the road.  And then the tires.  And
>then the brakes.  Soo...would not the first performance enhancement we
>make (assuming that road conditions are a given) be the tires?  (in
>other words, I agree with Brian...upgrading brakes via diamter,
>slottings drilling, etc. is probably an excerise in futility unless we
>increase the tires grip on the road, assuming there are gains to be
>made (i.e., if you're running R1's, you're at max already).
>
>Case in point: doesn't our Mr. Meze run 9.4" unslotted disks on his
>autox car?  NO NEED for larger diameter, slots, grooves, holes as his
>conditions don't warrant them...common sense, folks...
>
>=====
>Cheapass Ron


Thanks Ron, this is exactly the point I've been trying to get across...but
remember that changing those things can make a difference in how the
driver interacts with the cars braking system (I won't go into it 
here again though),
without any of the changes actually making a universal 'performance' 
improvement.

==Brett

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