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Sept. 8, 2009 10:23 p.m. Darth_Bimmer None

Hi everyone.

I'm looking in my back issues and can't find the article I'm looking for...

There was, a few years back, an article about how to bed you brakes, can someone help me find what issue it was in?

I need this, because there was something in there about the fact that if you bed your brakes properly and you get a proper transfer layer, you discs, when your done at the end of the season, would theorecticaly be thicker than they were when new...

When I brought that on the table the other daym everyonr laughed and told me I was full of s%#t.

Thanks in advance

Alex.
Sept. 8, 2009 11:50 p.m. Chebbie_SB HalfDork

Go to Stoptech.com, technical, white papers...... it's there, good luck, the hardest bit is finding a road/time to complete process to the letter !

works great on NG900 all disc !

Cheb
Sept. 8, 2009 11:54 p.m. ReverendDexter HalfDork

IIRC that article was talking about different types of pads - the situation you're describing is with adherent pads, where instead of the friction coming from grinding the pad against the rotor, it comes from the top layer of pad material sticking to the rotor and being ripped off the pad.

I couldn't tell you what issue that was in though, sorry.
Sept. 9, 2009 6:49 a.m. Darth_Bimmer New Reader

Thanks guys.

As for adherent pads, I'm no expert, (otherwise I would'nt need a magazine article to prove what I'm saying LOL) but IIRC the article stated that all pads work in two ways, adherent friction AND abbrasive friction.

ReverendDexter wrote: ...the situation you're describing is with adherent pads, where instead of the friction coming from grinding the pad against the rotor, it comes from the top layer of pad material sticking to the rotor and being ripped off the pad...

If you choose the wrong type of pads, (like race pads for the street) they will always work on abbrasive "mode" and destroy the discs. If you coose the right pad and they are properly bedded, they will operate in their designated temp. range and will work in adherent "mode" where the pad sticks to the transfer layer on the disc and then break the bond and stick again thousands of times a second.

Chebbie_SB wrote: ...the hardest bit is finding a road/time to complete process to the letter...

Don't worry for me, I have access to iCAR race track in Montreal Canada, I work for a race team and we're members there.