Wow, my rotors were glowing orange

[IGTBUS]

After a about an hour of backroad fun, my rotors were glowing bright orange, is this normal? And is there any possibility of damaging somthing if this happens? Or is somthing already wrong to cause it. And my headers were glowing orange brite as well but I think thats ok.,

[IGTBUS]

And these are the stock rotors, The brembos arent installed yet

[bustav13t]

i'm not sure but they could warp easily around that temp.

[lessthanjakejohn]

haha. sweet !just let them cool down slowly and they would be alright

[Mr1der]

yup, surely not as bad as the Z06 at the autocross that threw sparks from his.

[PalmerWMD]

Within reason thats almost normal.Rotors wil glow when their temp is brought up to that level.

If you use your brakes hard and a lot in succession temps can rise that high.

They will warp very easily under those conditions.

Fred...

[IGTBUS]

wow, a zo6 threw sparks from his, I wish I could see that? Ok, well it looks cool, when there glowin, Maybe the brembos, will give alot more cooling, I will try to get a picture next time.

[IGTBUS]

And hey whats up with this driving mom's car crap<-------------------

[IGTBUS]

Haha, nevermind

[quiksilvia]

it goes up with ur number of posts. i hated it before, but before u know i'll "look stock, run 8's" ah ha ha ha ah ah

[deftdrummer]

when you watch the lemans tournaments they have carbon fiber rotars that glow constantly the entire race. These races go days on end, the rotars look so bad *** at night.

[rousie13]

Glowing rotors do look pretty cool. Never gotten mine nearly that hot though.

[240SX=fun4me!]

Rotors suck when they warp *Hint: Never by GM cars*

.....God dam pontiac:\......

[PalmerWMD]

Glowing Rotors at night--->:ylsuper

Last summer I was in a roadrace ay night, with a supercharged Eclipse and a Cobra with a LOT of hard braking.

Those Brembos on my 4000 lbs sedan were glowing and smoking, it was so cool!:firedevil

Kids, dont try this at home!(I had fresh MOTUL600 brake fluid, Brembo rotors, metal matrix pads, steel braided brake lines)

Fred....:icesangel

[Simmsled]

As I do believe... the Q45 has Dual Piston Sumitumo calipers and 11 inch vented brakes up front. Is that right fred?

[PalmerWMD]

Simmsled:

I am unsure about teh excat rotor diameter, but when teh Q's came out they were aming teh best braking cars at any price .Even beating some all out sports cars w/ 129 feet from 60mph.That numebr is still pretty good today in its class.

But yes they are dual piston Sumitomo's.

Fred...

PS: I hung out with your Dad yesterday.

[Simmsled]

Cool. Yeah, Repo and my dad were looking at the Q's brakes and I saw Sumitumo on there. And you know how Andy is... he had to do his "S U M I T U M O" japanese announcer voice.

[PalmerWMD]

That race was a lot closer than many would think.....

Man that Q was tight....:ylsuper

Fred...

[PalmerWMD]

Just to clarify :

That race was originally supposed to be just between the s/c ed Eclipse and the Cobra and I was the chase vehicle to see who was winning.

But I found myself keeping up pretty good and gaining in some parts of the envelope.

Here is a pic of that car:

http://www.nissaninfiniticlub....t=500

Fred..

PS: IGT sorry for hijacking your thead.