Head on smash after brake upgrade today…
After fitting these…
went out to bed them in,when this happened…
The silver car in front of me crossed the white line into the path of the mondeo,had been following her for about a mile and she was all over the roadso i am guessing “suspected” drink driver
Really shook me up to witness,i was going to pull over and call the police when it was safe to.
Needless to say i have’nt bedded in my brakes yet!!
marc.
Hi Marc,
Sorry to hear that you had to witness that.
From the pics, are you sure your disks are on the right way? Don’t you have L & R the wrong way around meaning that the disk turns in the wrong direction and the vents don’t work?? I could be wrong of course?
Hi Marc,
Sorry to hear that you had to witness that.
From the pics, are you sure your disks are on the right way? Don’t you have L & R the wrong way around meaning that the disk turns in the wrong direction and the vents don’t work?? I could be wrong of course?
I thought that too!but the surface vanes all go the same way on every disc but the cooling vanes do indeed go in different directions on each side of the car.
marc
Are they AP ones, they look the other way around to these :
[image]http://www.sector111.com/images/products/performance/brake_bits/ultra_disc/fronts.jpg[/image]
no they are eliseparts,put doubt in my mind now!I have’nt bedded them in yet so i will double check.
marc.
There are lots of different designs of grooves in the surface of the disc. They have nothing to do with cooling.
The vanes inside the disc are whats important for cooling. There is a good explanation and pic on the AP site of how the cooling vanes should be orientated.
There are lots of different designs of grooves in the surface of the disc. They have nothing to do with cooling.
The vanes inside the disc are whats important for cooling. There is a good explanation and pic on the AP site of how the cooling vanes should be orientated.
Agreed. Here is the diagram from AP that shows the correct vane orientation.
[image]AP Racing
Worth checking…unless you like driving backwards
all very confusing,if you look at the pics of discs fitted on the eliseparts site the grooves go in different directions on 2 different pictures!
marc.
Thay are all AP but with different face designs.
The curved and the straight grooves appear to be opposed.
The straight ones (as in the pic I posted) are forward facing but the curved grooves are backward facing. The AP site says that the curved grooves are only used on ‘thick wall disks’ which I am guessing is 5000’s.
I was looking at these 2 pics in particular,they are both curved grooves but go in different directions…
[image]http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f222/lotusman1/exige/brake2.jpg[/image]
[image]http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f222/lotusman1/exige/brake1.jpg[/image]
marc.
There are lots of different designs of grooves in the surface of the disc. They have nothing to do with cooling.
The vanes inside the disc are whats important for cooling. There is a good explanation and pic on the AP site of how the cooling vanes should be orientated.
AP discs also have different part numbers for left and right hand side, I think its the last digit of the full part number and is either even or uneven depending on whether it is left or right handed.
The problem may be that soome other discs are not handed, ie. the vanes are not curved but straight in which case it makes no difference to vane cooling which way round you fit them.
![http://www.sector111.com/images/products/performance/brake_bits/ultra_disc/fronts.jpg[/image]](http://www.sector111.com/images/products/performance/brake_bits/ultra_disc/fronts.jpg%5B/image%5D){kind=link}
![http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f222/lotusman1/exige/brake2.jpg[/image]](http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f222/lotusman1/exige/brake2.jpg%5B/image%5D){kind=link}
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