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Some of you may have read that my rotors were shot due to a sticking driver side caliper. Well here is the old, bad rotors. Those grooves are about 1/4 in deep!
I painted the new calipers with 3 coats of duplicolor and 4 coats of clear. I was quite happy with the results as they look way better than thought would.
that looks good.. their is a kit for painting calipers now at most autozones... but all it is... is high temp paint with some writing and a heavy price tag...
Nobody ever said anything to him so I thought his were correct. I also took into consideration which way they would be passing through caliper and thought this would be best way to get wid of brake dust. Not that it'll be hard to swap them over just a pain in my *** as I have a million things going on. Well if this is true I guess this will take priority. What type of damage can this do? Why does it matter? Not that I don't believe you, just like having knowledge my self than a "I heard". Thanks for the heads up on this though.
OEM rotors will have internal vanes that come straight out from the center. These are omnidirectional and can cool fine turning in either direction.
A good cross-drilled rotor with an angled hole pattern will have directional internal vanes, otherwise the drill could go through a vane when the rotor was drilled. Since the cross-drilled holes are angled in one direction, so are the internal vanes. When the vanes are angled they must turn in a specific direction in order to get the proper cooling effect, otherwise they will overheat.
Some cheap cross-drilled rotors start with standard OEM rotors (with omnidirectional vanes) and so it doesn't matter which way they turn, but these cheaper rotors are the ones that usually end up cracking.
OEM rotors will have internal vanes that come straight out from the center. These are omnidirectional and can cool fine turning in either direction.
A good cross-drilled rotor with an angled hole pattern will have directional internal vanes, otherwise the drill could go through a vane when the rotor was drilled. Since the cross-drilled holes are angled in one direction, so are the internal vanes. When the vanes are angled they must turn in a specific direction in order to get the proper cooling effect, otherwise they will overheat.
Some cheap cross-drilled rotors start with standard OEM rotors (with omnidirectional vanes) and so it doesn't matter which way they turn, but these cheaper rotors are the ones that usually end up cracking.
Your calipers turned out very nice btw. Hope they didn't get too scratched up when you put the outer pad on.
Not too scratched up but they did get some paint removed.
I was at work from 7:30am til 9:00pm yesterday so couldn't swap rotors in the dark. Friend is coming in town today so the car will sit until she leaves on Sunday and then I'll fix them.
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