[FASTFATBOY]

Opinions?

http://stoptech.com/tech_info/wp_warped_brakedisk.shtml#

[wrencher]

I will agree that a good set of race pads properly seated & cooled the rotor will hold up well.
Usually cracks first before it'll warp.
But have seen the occational warpage. Who knows why lots of reasons for it.

Street cars/daily drivers, I see it more often. Kind of funny, but you have no idea how some people drive their cars out there.
A lot of times it's a car that had a rotor turned all ready. Or the wheels on a floating rotor set up where torqued by he-man.
Some just plain tear their #$@% up. I have pulled purple rotors from street cars lol.
Must be the 2 foot drivers !

This post has been edited by wrencher: Jun 25 2011, 03:32 AM

[FASTFATBOY]

I will agree that a good set of race pads properly seated & cooled the rotor will hold up well.
Usually cracks first before it'll warp.
But have seen the occational warpage. Who knows why lots of reasons for it.

Street cars/daily drivers, I see it more often. Kind of funny, but you have no idea how some people drive their cars out there.
A lot of times it's a car that had a rotor turned all ready. Or the wheels on a floating rotor set up where torqued by he-man.
Some just plain tear their #$@% up. I have pulled purple rotors from street cars lol.
Must be the 2 foot drivers !

Trackbird, yassir boss. Just pokin'.

I pulled a brand new Honda Odyssey in the shop once, soccer mom, 2500 miles the fronts were destroyed!

She couldn't understand why it wasn't warranty Lmao.

In the article it states that if:
All mounting surfaces are true and clean
Torqued properly
Pads properly bedded

He has never seen a warped rotor under these conditions.

As a dealership service writer I only saw techs bed in pads after a brake job 20% of the time, never saw a wheel put on with a torque wrench or torque sticks.

When I wrenched in Ford dealers in to 90's we had to do those things, Ford had a huge problem with brakes on trucks back then.