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DaewooOfDeath Dork
11/30/13 7:15 a.m.

I just did a time trial with the Daewoo and noticed something odd with the front brakes - they're blue now. What the hell?

jimbbski HalfDork
11/30/13 9:16 a.m.

Heat caused this. If you heat up a piece of steel or iron to a certain temp the metal will change colors one of them will be blue. This just means that your rotors reached a temp of over 600 deg. F.

Knurled GRM+ Memberand PowerDork
11/30/13 9:19 a.m.

Heh heh... the solid front disks on my Nissan were permanently purple.

If the brakes aren't smoking or glowing then you're not using them!

z31maniac UltimaDork
11/30/13 9:51 a.m.

Or you use Carbotech pads.

DaewooOfDeath Dork
11/30/13 9:25 p.m.

I thought so, is this something I need to worry about? Are the rotors going to get brittle or anything like this with the heavy heat load?

DaewooOfDeath Dork
11/30/13 9:26 p.m.

Knurled wrote: Heh heh... the solid front disks on my Nissan were permanently purple. If the brakes aren't smoking or glowing then you're not using them!

Oh, I use the brakes.