Brakes

Fuck! How hard it is to find reliable info about the slots? I've found a lot of interesting stuff to read regarding brakes, such as breaking in etc. But nothing of the slots!

But then again, I remember one conversations I had with Stoptech some time ago. It was about the warmth of brakes regarding of racing use of Stoptech Aerorotors. The monsieur at Stopetech told me, that if there are any problems with heating up those Aerorotors, they could be switched from left to right. The vanes inside them are designed to flow very efficiently and by turning it inside out, the air flow is decreased thus making the disk heat up faster and cooling down less. This could be good idea when the velocity isn't going too high, thus making the braking to produce less heat (the head production in proportional to the square of velocity).

Anyway, if it doesn't matter which way the vanes are, I think this way should push the brake dust and while under the pad the gas too away from the vanes thus being better way to do it. This is just my thought, I shall continue to search for better knowledge.

I'll quote some of the most interesting stuff from Stoptech's technical docs later.

Regards
Maladar

EK got some brakes

Yeah. Some brakes has been installed.

Pads and disks are from Dixcel since we wanted to go with OEM measures, but better materials. Fronts are FS disks and R01 pads. Rears areHS disks and RN pads (better grip, but will not lock. Really interesting compaund)



Cleaning, greasing etc has been done in the procedure.

I need to read more about those slots. My reasoning told me they would be better this way, but in Stoptech disks box we found instructions that told otherwise. Why, I do not know. When I do, I most certainly write a note about it.

Regards
Maladar

Seasons greetings

Widric is celebrating the second coming of Je... The Christmas.

Maladar sent me some pictures from the Christmas party. The whole garage is full of boxes, christmas tree is bent against roof and there is a snowman in front of the doors.

Christmas!

For guys, it's Christmas. Everybody else than me got bunch of stuff from Japan :( Some times it's hard to be poor :/

Well I get my share of these with helping to work on the cars and in form of test drive ^_^ Check out the pics below!

EK got some Dixcel, Spoon parts, even more Takata, HKS, Power Enterprise, Nardi, Quick release for steering wheel and some Toda :)

GC8 got some HKS, Power Enterprise and Dixcel

Of the AWWWWWWW-eleven, you can read from it's private blog :) Same goes for the FD.


Regards
Maladar

We can haz new ventilation

BujakaSHA!

Widric, the mastermind of electronics, has made us some ventilation air succer. And nice a vipstaaki which can be usecd to control the succer.

Yes, now it is nice and dry in here :)

The installation was made yesterday, today only the controller was added. Today, when we entered the DSG the air inside... it was nice and fresh! Something that we've only been dreaming of for these long years we've spent in here :D Well, I think no one cannot be blamed of this, until now we haven't had house engineers (HE) hanging around with us. Our official HE is, *TADAAAAA* Widric the Speed! Since he managed to create one of the most gigantic detached house I've seen, he has gained quite amount of HE exp. points on his personal account! ^^ All hail Widric!

Just visiting (Les Visiteurs)

Outside it's a raining but inside is wet.

Nah, it's cold inside the garage (the beer was frosty!), but summer is coming!

Just when we thought the racing culture in Finland was going down...

Guys at JDM Factory told me to check this link out. It is a development plan for the most interesting and challenging race in Finland (most of foreign racers have felt in love with this too).

Worth to check out :)

New Kid on the Blok, again :)

Holymoly! Beldin started his blogging too ^_^

The black JDM FD-3S and it's journey can be found from our links collection.

Holy shit.

As a honda fan, I must add this:

JDM things

If I (Maladar) ever end up to be a trucker, I'll buy one of those デコトラ, decorated trucks, from Japan :D These IRL transformers are one of the veirdest phenomenas I'v seen from the streets of Japan :D

Hilarious!

http://nekobus-elgrand.hp.infoseek.co.jp/arttruck/2005.4.24.html