Haha yeah, they do sound a bit like the old baseball card in the bike spokes trick. If you want the full on helicopter sound you can try wave rotors like these. They make a hell of racket lol.
I know, Jan and I had them on his race car. I put them on. it sounded like a helicopter landing all the time. He loved it.
The brakeman rear scalloped rotors stop better than standard rotors, with less heat buildup,The wilwoods probably do as well. there's as article about the physics of it somewhere, but that setup is more effective than stock. The downside is they're as loud as Bieber after Leonardo Dicaprio byatch slaps him.
yeah, they are more often used on rear brakes, drag cars or motorcycles where you don't need max surface area and the weight loss is worth the trade-off
Just ordered some slotted Cryo-Treated Stoptech's for my rears. I went for a drive this last weekend and burned them up pretty bad. I honestly don't know how I did it. The road was a nice and slow, uphill/downhill, windy one. So slow that at one point that it got to be an 11% grade on the backside down and I was manually shifting to a lower gear to slow me down. I don't think I got much faster than 40mph. I was following behind a group of bikers so i was keeping my distance, but I guess that wasn't enough. Once I finally got to a nice straight stretch I pulled over because I kept smelling burnt brakes...sure enough...smoke billowing off the back wheels. Time for some new brakes! Thanks again for your recommendation!
I think you will be happy with them. On those downhill slogs let the gearbox give the brakes a rest. Engine braking helps a lot. What kind of brake pads are you going with?
I could have sworn I answered this last week...guess I was too focused on Friday.. I went with the Akebono Euro ceramic pads. Yes, I'm sure I replied to this because I remember typing out that I was looking for Brembo's for the rear but they don't make them. Weird! I'll go with same rotors and bump up to Brembos or maybe EBC Greenstuff.
Don't worry we lost a few days of posts due to an interweb fart or some such. I've used the Akebono ceramics & liked them a lot.
Well, she's all done for now! What do you think? Outfitted with Stoptech Slotted Cryo Treated all around. Brembo pads on the front and Akebono Euro ceramic pads in the back. Topped off with "S" valve stem caps. Now I want to paint my calipers red....I didn't think that part through. Should have planned better. Interestingly, when I took her for a drive after all was done, i was getting a loud clicking sound coming off of the driver rear. It stopped after a bit. I'm just assuming it was the pads getting used to the slotted rotor? Overall, I'm extremely happy with how she came out and love driving her even more now!.
I've never heard the slots making noise, but have felt it. After a short time you won't notice it. If that noise continues I'd revisit that brake & have a look. Did you bed your pads in?
It was truly a freak-out moment for me thats for sure! To the best of my knowledge, yes. I really think that was what was making that clicking noise. My thought is it was an angle of one of the pads that was making contact with the slot and just needed to be better set. It stopped after a few minutes.