Titanium brake rotors
07-19-2013, 10:45 PM
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Titanium brake rotors
How many use the titanium rotors? I instructed a fellow at the NCM VIR event a few weeks ago and he had these rotors on his C5Z. I had never heard of them before.
07-19-2013, 11:31 PM
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07-20-2013, 08:49 AM
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titanium has the braking characteristics of cheese.
it's hard to beat iron. its good with heat, and provides good braking tq.
pound for pound iron can give you more braking tq than carbon-carbon rotors.
that's why every carbon rotor out there is 15"+ because you need a 15" carbon rotor to give you the same tq as a 13" iron rotor. but carbon will last much much longer and is drastically lighter..
it's hard to beat iron. its good with heat, and provides good braking tq.
pound for pound iron can give you more braking tq than carbon-carbon rotors.
that's why every carbon rotor out there is 15"+ because you need a 15" carbon rotor to give you the same tq as a 13" iron rotor. but carbon will last much much longer and is drastically lighter..
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Back when the C6 was first released, a vendor called Red Devil (I think?) had a set of Ti brake rotors. They were ridiculously light. Like, hold them up with your pinky and not feel a thing light. But...
Ti is one of the worst metals you can use for a brake rotor. One of the rotor's jobs is to absorb heat away from the brake pad and then vent it off into the moving air inside the wheel. Ti can't do that. It has no heat absorption qualities to it whatsoever. That's what makes it such a great heat shield!
I remember Chuck Mallet had experimented with them. He hated them. My friends at HPVO at GM actually experimented with them as well, but knew going into it that they wouldn't work. The results of their testing basically confirmed their expectations: the rotors are light as hell but incapable of repeatedly stopping the car.
Avoid. Like the plague. Not good. Use Ti for things like the backings of brake pads, or even the pistons in your brake calipers, all in the hopes of preventing heat transfer to the fluid. But you definitely do NOT want it as your rotor.
Ti is one of the worst metals you can use for a brake rotor. One of the rotor's jobs is to absorb heat away from the brake pad and then vent it off into the moving air inside the wheel. Ti can't do that. It has no heat absorption qualities to it whatsoever. That's what makes it such a great heat shield!
I remember Chuck Mallet had experimented with them. He hated them. My friends at HPVO at GM actually experimented with them as well, but knew going into it that they wouldn't work. The results of their testing basically confirmed their expectations: the rotors are light as hell but incapable of repeatedly stopping the car.
Avoid. Like the plague. Not good. Use Ti for things like the backings of brake pads, or even the pistons in your brake calipers, all in the hopes of preventing heat transfer to the fluid. But you definitely do NOT want it as your rotor.
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07-20-2013, 01:20 PM
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07-22-2013, 05:01 PM
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These guys make great rotors as well - http://shop.performanceafx.com/C6-Corvette_c11.htm I have a set of them on my Vet and like them a lot.
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St. Jude Donor '06
run ,don't walk from ti rotors...some few years ago I got a set...the caliper pistons melted,the car wouldn't stop.took me 6 months to get my money back...
run......
Johnny
run......
Johnny