RotorDiscs (funny looking brake discs)

[colm_mcm]

Anyone had these, or even heard of them?



I think they look kinda cool, although you'd have to have front and back or it'd look wrong. I assume it's all about looks?

€160 for the FTO
http://cgi.ebay.ie/RotorDiscs-Front-Bra ... 240%3A1318

[TopCat]

I have seen these on a car before (not an FTO though). Personally I think the novelty look of them would wear off fairly quick, and I've never heard anything to suggest they are anything other than an aesthetic item.

[mivecmad27]

saw them on a sierra cosworth years ago,purely just for the look

[d_dan]

Anyone had these, or even heard of them?



I think they look kinda cool, although you'd have to have front and back or it'd look wrong. I assume it's all about looks?

€160 for the FTO
http://cgi.ebay.ie/RotorDiscs-Front-Bra ... 240%3A1318

the point of them is actually to swirl up the air around the disks. the goal is to cool them

[colm_mcm]

Strange that no major manufacturer has used this idea then.

[d_dan]

Id say there as good as elecric superchargers

[colm_mcm]

Must order them so, hear only good things about those Superchargers

[d_dan]

yea... i think even with the slightly less surface area on them compaired to a standard solid disk you would benifit more fromt the extra friction than the tiny difference in cooling the disks.

And to be hones if you want a cooler disk run a twin disk.

[colm_mcm]

my thoughts exactly. I wasn't thinking of buying them or anything, just hadn't seen them before and found the idea of them interesting/amusing.

[d_dan]

in that case
I think one of the best looking visual change you can do that would impress me the most is a big break upgrade.
I thin having huge callapers and disks filling up inside the wheel's are UBER COOL.

[colm_mcm]

I"ll just get the Brembo brake covers from ebay for 30 quid!

[d_dan]

yea i also thought they looked cool

[colm_mcm]

I dunno, there's something deeply uncool about having fake brembos!

[d_dan]

hey look if your getting them your obviously just in it for the asthetic look. so for that price theres alot worse ya can do

[TopCat]

I"ll just get the Brembo brake covers from ebay for 30 quid!

Oh dear god! I can't believe a company would even make these things!!

[colm_mcm]

I'd say they're selling loads of them Tom. for the record, I'm not getting them

[TopCat]

Bernard won't be happy, his secret is out..

[colm_mcm]

He only has fake Brembos on the front though.

[gary d]

I would have thought those fake brembo covers would breach copyright law? Theyr'e almost as cheesey as those fake discs they sell in halfords for cars with rear drum brakes, rare looking stupid oversize disc with no caliper. fooling no one.
I take it by twin discs Dan is referring to vented discs?

[d_dan]

Nope.
Ill get a good picture of my disks some time.
They arnt vented like you see these are as close as your going to get to having 2 330mm disks stuck together.
You see above there are small little rods sepperating the 2 sides there is just a coupple layers of them.

I suppose they are vented so your right

[Bernard]

He only has fake Brembos on the front though.

*Convincing though, aren't they


*Sarcasm

[cat]

The Rotordisc design was originally intended for offroad vehicles, its odd shape was purely to clear mud from the calliper and pads, it has nothing to do with cooling. Why we now see them for road cars is beyond me, they actually have less brake area than a conventional disc.