Honda Accord Brembo Brake Rotors
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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