You wrote "front brake rotors glowing orange through the wheel spokes."
- next time the LeMans 24 hr race is aired, watch at night and you'll
see the same thing - very impressive. Back in the days when turbo's
were 1st being used on sports cars, the night time video was very
impressive! As the throttle was closed, large (relatively) clouds of
fuel would be ejected through the exhaust and would ignite leaving a
large fireball behind the car. It happened often when braking and also
when changing gears. ;-)
LarryT
78 240D
91 300D
On 8/29/2013 10:39 PM, Craig wrote:
On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 21:00:04 -0500 Peter Frederick <psf...@earthlink.net>
wrote:
Even a panic stop will not heat the whole rotor enough to carburize
it, you have to drag the brakes hard at full throttle for a while,
even Nascar cars rarely have glowing rotors, if they do they aren't
ventilated well enough.
Years ago, I saw a Mercedes magazine. On the cover was a picture of a
Mercedes racing car coming thorough a tight turn. You could see the front
brake rotors glowing orange through the wheel spokes.
Craig
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