On our tandem, we descended King's Mountain Road in Palo Alto, CA , which is twisty, narrow, and has a 6.8% average grade, and is steeper at the top where ...
Have an offroad Tandem with Hope Mono M4 brakes with 200 mm discs front and
rear. Those discs glow a dull orange after some of the steep downhills.
Never had any loss of braking power but The Stoker does complain about a
warm rear end occasionally.
Glowing Brake Rotors! Audi S4 Biturbo Stage III - 110-0 mph stop
I wanted to see how much brake rotor glow I'd get on a full effort ~110 to 0 mph stop with my S4. Surprisingly not much! Only a little glow near the hat area and ...
93k wow you actually drive it. Only reason why i ask is mine has 102k and
completely stock, yours is a stage 3 hows it holding up after all this time
is rather ask someone who's had there's for a long time rather then someone
who's had for only a year.
It's not a good idea to come to a complete stop after heating your brakes
like that... the pad material becomes imbedded into the hot metal rotor...
You want to give it a little bit to cool down before coming to a complete
stop.
@DestoveI - Heh, you're good! That's exactly what I'm going to do. I would
have done it last night but I was too lazy to jack the car up to remove the
belly pan and mount the camera.
do u recommend FTurbos? i have 77k on my b5 and looking to upgrade around
100k. any advice/suggestions/horror stories on upgrading turbos much
appreciated. Love ur videos!!
Thanks - they are 6 piston Porsche calipers made by Brembo. Rotors are two
piece floating with aluminum hats. I purchased the kit from ECS tuning many
years ago.
It is probably more than that, as the front brakes will be more powefull
(i.e larger discs, more pistons, drilled or ventilated discs, or a simple
disc brake while the rear are drum brakes) but if they were the same brakes
on the front and back, then the front would still be much more powerfull,
so combine the natural stronger force from the front brakes with the better
brakes on the front, and you probably get more like 70-80% front (I based
all this on personal knowledge, i might be wrong)
@ferraris26 I personally dont race cars (yet..) but i cycle a lot and cover
500+ miles a month and i have hydraulic brakes on my bike and since there
is no ABS, EBD and a lever per brake on a bike with powerful brakes the
rear one braking as much as you can (to the point just before it skids) has
a 4 or 5 times longer stopping distance than the front alone, as apart from
in wet or snowy conditions you are confident the front wont skid.
hey baked, differential controls acceleration not braking. front brakes
always do more braking to help ensure understeer/oversteer dont affect
handling, but this is all depending on the drivetrain of the car whether it
be FWD, RWD, AWD. the rear brakes rarely get hot enough for you to see any
effect
It is true, rear brakes do less braking than front brakes. So they generate
less heat. I know a lot of brakes, therefore I am participating in this
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@mooseling1 You need to keep the front brakes more powerful because under
braking, the front wheels will have more downforce, so more grip and the
braking will be more efficient. It also avoids the tail going out of
control . Even non EBD cars have P-valves, if the car is not so small..
most likely the differential. that is, the braking system is set more
toward braking with the front brakes , or that the forward momentum along
with the turning causes a higher level of friction. could also be the
result of that combined with the weight or downforce in the front
u gotta remember that when braking the weight transfer goes to the front..
so this usually makes for a 70% braking on the front brakes and 30 %
braking for the rear brakes.. but after a while, they do start to glow
lol.. but by then the fronts would have caught fire! lol!
@mooseling1 I don't race cars either but I do drive them a bit...a car's
dynamics are different from a bike...you don't have to worry about flipping
over in a car :D In a car, the engine is up front....usually...so that is
one of the main reasons.
@princephilip123456 if you stop right there, the caliper/pads will cause
localised heating/cooling of the disc, leading to warping. you should do
exactly the opposite of that and keep moving until it has had time to cool
down.
semi trucks are huge. you dont want all the braking happening in the front
unless you dont want to have brakes for much longer. the bigger the load
the less front breaking there is.
Rear brakes do less braking than front brakes. So they generate less heat.
Also, it is not a differential that splits the pressure, it is a
proportioning valve.
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Finally got to see this in person. So much heat build up in the rotors under heavy breaking makes them glow red. Look at the center of their front wheel heading ...