RE: grooved disks increasing brake disc area....

["Brian Shorey" <bshorey@domain.elided>]

> I am still trying to figure this one out. Grooved or slotted, either way,
> how have you increased the surface area? In addition, if you still have
the
> same size pads, how have you made any difference to the area being
clamped?

If you cut a line along the radius of a grooved rotor and looked at it from
the side, you'd see something that looks like this:

/\/\/\/\/\/\

Where stock would look like this:

____________

Once the pad beds into the rotor, you have increased the surface area of pad
to rotor.

bs

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