| Re: Brake Ducting
It looks to me that the first picture shows vented disks, which is possibly why it also appears to have a different venting arangement fed to the disc centre (the correct way for these as mentioned by others).
Ian, nope the fluid still used to get hot using asbestos pads. I was reading a book last week which stated they used to suffer lots of gearbox problems at lemans as a result of using engine braking to preserve the life of the brakes.
If you do a google for 'brake pad design' or 'caliper design' I'm sure you will find loads of info on how companies are trying to increase pad pressure without affecting heat transfer. I did this a while ago when trying to find the best track pad for one of my cars, and got so confused I just brought what most people used in the end !
I think one of the big differences now is that pads tend tobe much harder, and so tend to wear the discs as much as the pads.
As you say, maybe I should stop thinking now too [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]
Cheers,
John. |