The benefits of using drilled brake rotors vs.stock blanks are many, but drilled rotors have their drawbacks as well.  While a drilled brake rotor will cool much easier than a standard blank rotor or slotted rotor, the drill sites are prone to cracking. 

There are different techniques for drilling a brake rotor, and later honing it to perfection, to prevent the chance of a crack, and we will discuss these techniques in this article. 

First of all, we are going to explain exactly what causes a rotor to crack.

If you have ever taken a glass and heated it up, then quickly put itunder some cold water, then you may have witnessed “temperature change” stress cracking.  This is essentially what happens to a brake rotor when it cools down too fast after becoming superheated.  The stress of cool...

In this article, we are going to explain the basics of brake pad bed in and brake-in.  The information listed in this article will apply to most brake pad installations for street vehicles. 

The purpose of brake pad bedding is simple; a layer of brake pad material must exist on the brake rotor for proper friction to be generated between the pad and rotor.  During any usual brake pad bed in procedure, brake pads are heated and cooled again through a series of braking applications. 

This process ensures that an even coat of brake pad resin ends up on the brake rotor surface which allows brake pads to do their job.  If a driver rushes this procedure or forgets to do it altogether, an uneven amount of pad material will wind up on the brake rotor and cause a very lackluster performance in brak...

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Installation of a pair or full set of performance brake rotors is pretty simple if you understand the science behind how theyfunction.  Installing a set of brake rotors with a curved set of cooling veins is a bit different than installing a set with straight veins, so this is something to be aware of for each unique install.

Other than determining brake rotor orientation, based upon design variance, basic quality control must be performed to ensure proper quantitative variances are kept.  Just as you would check over rotor tolerance numbers when changing out brake pads, new rotors should be scrutinized as well before install.  Excessive run out and/or surface defects are what the installer is trying to identify, and each individual manufacturerproduces lit...

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When changing brake pads, you are nearly 2x as likely to be installing front brakes vs. rear brakes, and for good reason.  Your vehicle does most of it’s braking work in the front of the vehicle, and pads wear a great deal faster as a result.  Thankfully, front brakes are usually easier to change than rear brakes, so vehicle engineers did something right…. 

If you are wondering why exactly front brake pads wear faster than the rear, or want to know how rear brakes differ from the front, then read this article…

Weight Transfer

When applying brakes in your own daily driver, you have probably noticed the transfer of weight in the vehicle from back to front.  Front brakes as a result must be made larger and stronger than the rear to equalize braking force bet...

Zinc plating is a process which has been designed to fight off the corrosion of steel - the same being done with the immersion of clean steel parts into a zinc salt solution and the application of electric currents thereafter.  Zinc coatings are formed around the steel, which will prevent the oxidation of the steel and will result to its protection against rust and corrosion.

The Zinc coating will serve as a protective barrier--before rust reaches the metal, it will have to deal with its Zinc protection first.

Numerous industries now actually make use of Zinc electroplating in order to further enhance the potential of their products.  An example, of course, is in the automotive industry.  Zinc plated brakes have become quite the trend because of its utmost efficiency and aesthetic effects...