>Bump
>
>But let me also add I gave this some more thought and my
>initial thoughts were wrong. The force applied to the brake
>pad is determined by the cross section of the brake piston,
>so regardless of what size the contact patch is between the
>pad and the rotor the force will be the same. So in theory
>loss of contact area will have no affect of braking ability.
>But to quote Homer Simpson: "In theory communism works."
>
>I still would like to know what your personal experience has
>been with slotted and/or drilled rotors.

That is inaccurate. If you increase your pad's contact with the rotor, you will increase stopping power. It's simple physics. More friction=better stopping.

Any reduction in contact area because of drilled and sloted rotors would be trivial. Besides, when you swap out your rotors you'll probably be upgrading to a pad with a better compound anyway, so any minimal loss would be offset by the pad.

Chris

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