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Originally posted by Excaliber
No way I could justify a $30K brake job, regardless of the cars value. Those fancy rotors should not have been "worn out" to that point even with track time.
No doubt they cannot be "turned on a lathe" to clean them up,,,,,,or whatever. Bad engineering when the pads AND the rotors go together. At that rate the car would not even be able to run the 24 hrs of LeMans without a "rotor" change. For a "race car" that would be ridiculous.
This is clearly a case of:
More money than brains.
Ernie
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Bad engineering? More money than brains? I couldn't agree more! In fact I think they should scrap the whole Formula 1 thing on the basis that all that bad engineering wastes money.
First the manufactuing process required to produce a Carbon-Ceramic brake rotor like the Enzo and F1 cars use takes 6 months and then it can't even be turned on a lathe! And why? Just so some guy can stop faster, longer, and with better feel, than with any other other brake system man has ever made.
Scott