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1. [Mgs] crossed drilled brake rotors (score: 1): Author: "1971-red-mgb" <1971mgb@cox.net>; Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:10:01 -0400; does anyone have a good/bad, indifferent opinion about the cross drilled brake rotors, anyone use them and would like to share their experience with me, I'm thinking of getting a pair for my 71 MGB b; /html/mgs/2007-09/msg00185.html (7,929 bytes)
2. Re: [Mgs] crossed drilled brake rotors (score: 1): Author: WSpohn4@aol.com; Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:12:05 EDT; does anyone have a good/bad, indifferent opinion about the cross drilled brake rotors, anyone use them and would like to share their experience with me, I'm thinking of getting a pair for my 71 MGB b; /html/mgs/2007-09/msg00186.html (8,289 bytes)
3. Re: [Mgs] crossed drilled brake rotors (score: 1): Author: Max Heim <max_heim@sbcglobal.net>; Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:20:17 -0700; Not knowing your driving habits, I would just ask if your rotors currently need replacing. If so, I would say it may be worth considering. Otherwise, it scarcely seems justified. New, sticky tires wo; /html/mgs/2007-09/msg00187.html (8,844 bytes)
4. Re: [Mgs] crossed drilled brake rotors (score: 1): Author: Peter C <peter@nosimport.com>; Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:51:05 -0500; == They made one H**L of a difference on the track this past weekend! The car would reliably vibrate wildly every time the brakes were applied at any speed. One rotor cracked all the way across, and; /html/mgs/2007-09/msg00188.html (8,795 bytes)
5. Re: [Mgs] crossed drilled brake rotors (score: 1): Author: WSpohn4@aol.com; Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:05:05 EDT; They made one H**L of a difference on the track this past weekend! The car would reliably vibrate wildly every time the brakes were applied at any speed. One rotor cracked all the way across, and the; /html/mgs/2007-09/msg00189.html (8,460 bytes)
6. Re: [Mgs] crossed drilled brake rotors (score: 1): Author: Barrie Robinson <barrie@look.ca>; Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:45:34 -0400; Unless you intend to do the Le Mans thing I would not bother. Regards Barrie Barrie Robinson (705) 721-9060 http://www.britishv8.org/MG/BarrieRobinson.htm ___________________________________________; /html/mgs/2007-09/msg00190.html (9,158 bytes)
7. Re: [Mgs] crossed drilled brake rotors (score: 1): Author: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>; Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:37:48 -0400; I have never understood how they would have much advantage. For cooling, yes, there is additional metal exposed to air, but then the air within the small holes would be pretty much dead air within t; /html/mgs/2007-09/msg00192.html (9,849 bytes)
8. Re: [Mgs] crossed drilled brake rotors (score: 1): Author: Paul Osborne <paul@ece.rochester.edu>; Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:53:54 -0400; save your money and if you have spend it buy a case a beer and a good bottle of Bombay paul -- Paul Osborne University of Rochester Engineering & Technical Services Department of Electrical and Compu; /html/mgs/2007-09/msg00193.html (8,750 bytes)
9. Re: [Mgs] crossed drilled brake rotors (score: 1): Author: "Hans Duinhoven" <h.duinhoven@planet.nl>; Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:58:31 +0200; IMHO both slotted and drilled rotors are a cheep way for optimizing the Both actions weaking the structure of the original. Better is to convert to vented rotors, which will need different callipers; /html/mgs/2007-09/msg00194.html (9,412 bytes)
10. Re: [Mgs] crossed drilled brake rotors (score: 1): Author: WSpohn4@aol.com; Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:21:30 EDT; There is a firm advertising slotted rotors. These would appear to have advantage, in that they could allow the vapors to squirt out the slots and to allow dissipation of steam if the rotors and pads; /html/mgs/2007-09/msg00195.html (9,049 bytes)
11. Re: [Mgs] crossed drilled brake rotors (score: 1): Author: Eric Erickson <eric@erickson.on.net>; Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 09:23:35 +0930; Running "oversized" tyres that restricted some airflow around the brake discs I warped a front disc at the track in a way that scared me so much that I didn't want it to happen again. So I tried the; /html/mgs/2007-09/msg00200.html (8,590 bytes)
12. Re: [Mgs] crossed drilled brake rotors (score: 1): Author: Max Heim <max_heim@sbcglobal.net>; Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:15:04 -0700; I can't speak for my MGB, but on my other car (which weighs 3400 lbs), I recently fitted cross-drilled, slotted, vented rotors, replacing the OEM vented rotors, which were seriously warped (and notor; /html/mgs/2007-09/msg00201.html (9,951 bytes)
13. Re: [Mgs] crossed drilled brake rotors (score: 1): Author: Peter C <peter@nosimport.com>; Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:50:18 -0500; <SNIP> A very important difference in that they were vented rotors on your car. 2 braking surfaces separated by fins, for those that haven't seen them. The pad only "works" on 1 of the drilled surfac; /html/mgs/2007-09/msg00207.html (8,664 bytes)
14. Re: [Mgs] crossed drilled brake rotors (score: 1): Author: "Norm" <twobees@sprynet.com>; Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:06:58 -0400; My 2-cents. I switched from solid flat disk rotors to cross-drilled when I took my '66 B racing. I changed to slotted & cross-drilled next time I needed rotors. At the price, why not? In 6 years of; /html/mgs/2007-09/msg00209.html (9,255 bytes)
15. Re: [Mgs] crossed drilled brake rotors (score: 1): Author: "Stephen West-Fisher" <steve@coastaldatasystems.com>; Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:22:06 -0400; I was under the impression that cross drilling the rotors was done to allow the gasses to escape from the high performance pads in use a number of years ago, not for heat dissipation. Using the curre; /html/mgs/2007-09/msg00213.html (8,721 bytes)
16. Re: [Mgs] crossed drilled brake rotors (score: 1): Author: "Simon Matthews" <simon.d.matthews@gmail.com>; Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:04:10 -0700; I can't count the number of times that the disks on my wife's Voyager have faded out. The down grades into Big Basin, John Muir Woods and Yosemite valley are all places where this has happened, even; /html/mgs/2007-09/msg00214.html (8,917 bytes)
17. Re: [Mgs] crossed drilled brake rotors (score: 1): Author: Eric Erickson <eric@erickson.on.net>; Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 23:07:57 +0930; Well I did not go for cross-drilled and grooved/vented rotors for any bling factor (no-one can see my discs). Of course we will never know if these rotors are the reason I have not warped another dis; /html/mgs/2007-09/msg00215.html (9,090 bytes)
18. Re: [Mgs] crossed drilled brake rotors (score: 1): Author: "Stephen West-Fisher" <steve@coastaldatasystems.com>; Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 18:39:02 -0400; That sounds like a good recommendation to me. Of course, my MG still has the original style rotors and pads, and it is the "high performance" car in my stable. I've never had any trouble with the bra; /html/mgs/2007-09/msg00221.html (8,881 bytes)
19. Re: [Mgs] crossed drilled brake rotors (score: 1): Author: "WJHS1960" <WJHS1960@comcast.net>; Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 19:17:36 -0500; <<(yes, primarily Mustangs)>> You are NOT comparing apples to apples there, Steve!! You ARE back to vented rotors.<G> _______________________________________________ Edit your replies Mgs@autox.team.; /html/mgs/2007-09/msg00223.html (7,875 bytes)

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