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Is your passion to drive fast? Are you into speed on the street or do you enjoy drifiting your car? Have you been to a track day or a drag strip. Or perhaps you just like to drive fast  It's one thing to go fast, but stopping is even more important. If you want to really stop fast you need a set of performance rotors.

Ask car people in the know about brake rotors and one of the first names that they mention will be Brembo. From a small Italian after market company started in 1961, they have become one of the leading manufactures of brake related products. back in 1961 an Italian company was created to supply after market brake rotors.  They may now be the world's leading brake rotor company. Besides creating an after market series of products, they are now standard equipment on exotic cars like BMW and Mercedes

If you are a fast driver then you need performance brake rotors. When you decide to upgrade you will find that rotors come in a variety of different designs. Your choices are solid rotors, ventilated rotors , cross drilled, slotted and cross drilled/slotted brake rotors.

Every brake rotor is made with the same design goal, which is to provide a spinning surface that the brake pads can rub against and therefore slow down  your car. Since the motion of your moving car is changed into heat by your braking system, the braking system gets hot. Now you must get rid of this heat buildup as fast as possible. If you don't, then the rotor, the pads, and sometimes the brake fluid can get so hot that you will begin to lose braking capability and you encounter brake fading. The more you use your brakes,the longer you use them, the faster they will begin to fade. So the different design considerations were how to keep the brakes from fading.

Brake rotors are typically made of cast iron, and you want a company that controls the composition of this material. It must be just hard enough, and smooth enough to give to give you maximum braking capability.

 

  •   Initial designs of brake rotors were solid cast iron discs with the brake pads on each side.

 

  •   To further increase the heat loss, fins were added between two brake rotors disc. This ventilated rotor improved their resistance to fading.

 

  • Later in brake rotor design was to drill holes in the rotors. The holes allowed more fresh air to come in and they radiated heat even faster. They are superior to solid or ventilated rotors. This design allowed racing cars to go faster into corners and street drivers to be safer, by stopping faster with less fade.

 

  • Slotted rotors have slots cut or etched in different patterns on the rotor surface. These slots help remove gases that can build up along with heat.  Again the goal was to decrease brake fading.

In either case you must buy quality rotors or you can be wasting your money. If you buy cheap, inferior rotors chances are the material is not the best , or the cross drilled holes are in the wrong places on the brake rotors or the slots are designed incorrectly you can get cracks and warped rotors. Some off brand brake parts are being imported, by copy cat manufacturers. Rotors can be made of thinner materials, which can lead to warping, or of inferior materials which will fail. Thinner rotors may not have enough material left to resurface. Keep in mind that of all of the systems in your car, that offer safety for the passengers, your brake systems is the one not to mess around with.

 


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7/30/2010 - Honda posts record Q1 and Renault returns to H1 profit (Reuters)

A woman walks past Nissan Motor Co's March cars at the company's headquarters in Yokohama, south of Tokyo July 29, 2010. REUTERS/Toru HanaiReuters - Honda Motor Co (7267.T) raised its full-year forecasts after posting a record quarterly net profit on Friday, while brisk sales returned France's Renault to profit in the first half.


7/30/2010 - Obama to sell auto bailout good news in Michigan (AP)

President Barack Obama smiles after signing a supplemental spending bill at his desk in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 29, 2010.  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - President Barack Obama is going to the heart of the U.S. auto industry to push an important election-year claim: his administration's unpopular auto industry bailout has turned into an economic good-news story.


7/30/2010 - Honda posts record quarterly profit on sales rise (AP)
AP - Honda's quarterly profit ballooned to 272.4 billion yen ($3.2 billion) and the carmaker raised its full year earnings forecast as sales grew in North America, Japan and the rest of Asia.
7/29/2010 - Tenneco , (Investor's Business Daily)
Investor's Business Daily - Tenneco , an auto parts maker, swung to a Q2 profit of 62 cents ex items, topping views by 18 cents. Revenue rose 36% to $1.5 bil, above views. Tenneco, which makes emission control products, shock absorbers and other components, climbed 7.6% to 25.97.
7/29/2010 - Obama: We'll get back money from auto bailout (AP)

President Barack Obama, center, during his guest appearance on ABC's television show 'The View' in New York, Wednesday, July 28, 2010. Sitting with Obama are Barbara Walters,  left, and Joy Behar, right. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - President Barack Obama said the government will recover all the taxpayer money his administration provided to bail out the auto industry last year.


7/29/2010 - UAW head: GM to file paperwork in August for IPO (AP)
AP - General Motors Co. will file paperwork in mid-August to start the process of selling stock to the public, the head of the United Auto Workers union said Thursday.
7/29/2010 - White House: car bailouts saved a million jobs (AFP)

The headquarters of General Motors is pictured in 2006 in downtown Detroit, Michigan. The White House on Thursday said its multi-billion dollar auto industry bailout had saved a million jobs and brought the fabled sector back from the brink of collapse.(AFP/File/Jeff Haynes)AFP - The White House on Thursday said its multi-billion dollar auto industry bailout had saved a million jobs and brought the fabled sector back from the brink of collapse.


7/29/2010 - Toyota recalls 412,000 cars in US to fix steering (AP)

In this undated photo provided by Toyota Motor Corp., the 2003 Toyota Avalon XLS is shown. Toyota is recalling 412,000 passenger cars, mostly the Avalon model, in the U.S., and another 16,420 vehicles in Japan for steering problems, the automaker said Thursday, July 29, 2010. (AP Photo/Toyota Motor Corp.) ** NO SALES **AP - Toyota is recalling nearly half a million cars, most of them large sedans sold in the U.S., for problems that can cause the steering wheel to lock up. It's the latest indication that the automaker is still struggling with vehicle problems even as it works to overhaul quality control.


 
 
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