[DeTomaso] DeTomaso Digest, Vol 58, Issue 24-Solid Rotors

[Ken Green]

Thanks for everyone's replys.  These are thin solid rotors, like 1/4 inch thick.  They can't have much heat capacity.  Hard to believe they would work on the track.
 
Tyle Stone, the guy who wants to sell them, only has off road racing experience, and I think the requirements are different.  I looked at the Wilwood catalog, and they have thin steel rotors, but they are for low to moderate use.
 
Ken

--- On Sun, 5/24/09, RCBSONS1 at aol.com <RCBSONS1 at aol.com> wrote:


From: RCBSONS1 at aol.com <RCBSONS1 at aol.com>
Subject: Re: DeTomaso Digest, Vol 58, Issue 24-Solid Rotors
To: detomaso at realbig.com, kenn_green at yahoo.com
Date: Sunday, May 24, 2009, 8:35 AM



Ken,
I have solid rotors on my Mustang Gt350r clone track car (barely street legal)
We did change the original brake compound as the first one
was too hard... I ran the car for 3 years with 12 hard track days
before destroying the motor... Solids worked great
New motor is in it but I am playing with that Black  Italian car right now
It will be my spare if the Black one breaks
 
My #3  Black Pantera has the six piston front, four piston back
Wilwood set up with big vented rotors but they are solid.  I have had
them on the car for 5 years with still the same pads
 
time on them:
4 years at the Vegas track
3 times to Thunderhill
1 time at Sears point
1 silver state
about 8 autocrosses
one Virgina city hillclimb
Many backroad Bob's special hillclimbs
Weekly trips to the Wednesday cruise night
I was told that if I race the car I should use the
solid rotors... didn't ask on the mustang but my
local Norcal Shelby vendor and racer sold me
the solid Baer setup.   I have never had brake
fade on either car and I do drive them hard on the track
I am no expert on why or why not solid... both do have
vents in between the outer and inner portion of the rotors
 
Works for me
 
Bob #3 Black Pantera
 



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