Thought they were Chinese?
Something went wrong, ordered a Mustang, yet ended up in a British hotrod, I blame OcUK!
Thought they were Chinese?
I thought, you thought they were British?Anyway, nice car
I do, because they are British and thank you.
Nissan is a Japanese based company building cars in the UK, majority owned by French.
Hardly the same as JLR.
Not sure why you are being so awkward about Gibbo’s British car. Are you going to tell every GTR owner they drive a French car too?
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Can someone please please ban Jigger. Please.
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Looking great! Now that it's been mentioned, those skirts need to be black...
With that same logic you could claim is Ferrari therefore British/Dutch! It is a bit silly, Jaguar/Land Rover is still a British company regardless of the location of the headquarters of the parent company.
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Very nice. But it's a Chinese hotrod
That's just Wong.
The discs look good but why do the grooves not go to the outer edge to allow brake dust to be expelled ? The grooves will just collect dust and go black and cause extra heating. Having the holes and grooves at the same place is just creating a weak point in the metal.
They look the part but the design to me raises some engineering questions.... lol
They look the part but the design to me raises some engineering questions.... lol
I guess they must know what they are doing, their thermal slot design, holes in the grooves improves strength and reduces chances of cracking, I am not an engineer but they explained why they do it, as such if your serious about your question drop an email to Wortec [email protected] who can explain to you their reasoning for how they do their thermal slot design and why they do it.
All I can say is from using them, the rate at which they cool down from multiple hard stops from 130mph is seriously impressive and been no issues with dust collecting in the grooves or holes thus far.
The grooves and holes have zero to do with getting rid of dust.
The grooves are basically for stable braking feel at all temperatures, low disc wear, and continuously refreshing the braking surface for optimum performance.
The holes are then added in as they offer the highest initial response of all the available disc face types while continuously refreshing the braking surface and being also typically a bit lighter.
It as all about getting rid of heat, and refreshing the pad surface, to give a stable response, and a far improved initial bite.
The grooves will never go to the edge of a disc, if it has been designed correctly, that will instantly increase chance of thermal cracking and instability in braking efforts.
The grooves are basically for stable braking feel at all temperatures, low disc wear, and continuously refreshing the braking surface for optimum performance.
The holes are then added in as they offer the highest initial response of all the available disc face types while continuously refreshing the braking surface and being also typically a bit lighter.
It as all about getting rid of heat, and refreshing the pad surface, to give a stable response, and a far improved initial bite.
The grooves will never go to the edge of a disc, if it has been designed correctly, that will instantly increase chance of thermal cracking and instability in braking efforts.
Am sure they will be fine, they have same design on GTR's that are doing track work, all Wortec focus on primarily is brake disc design and innovating on how to reduce weight and improve cooling, quite a lot of other cars running their thermal slot design and all seems well, I won't be racing my car or doing a lot of track days and the disc have a warranty with them so should there be an issue I am sure they will resolve it.
I was originally going to go with just plain edge and plain drilled, traditional style as I believed the suncut would look smaller and the grooves would make too much noise. But once on the car I fell for the look for of them and though the grooves create additional braking noise, its only when braking hard from high speeds, so kept this design.
Plus at Santa pod the attention the car got and a lot of comments on how cool the brakes looked, its a unique design and certainly got a lot of good comments, the car had crowds of people around it at times.
Thanks for that post, kind of similar to what Wortec told me, he said groove design, direction, holes are irrelevant as to which direction they go, they are there to keep pad clean and give strong initial bite response and consistent performance.
He said direction of disc is down to internal vane design and they use a new V-gapped design which has proven most efficient in their internal testing.
This design I am running is a design they released a few years back, I am not a guinea pig for a new design, I am literally just guinea pig for fitment to an F-type as until now no 2PC disc existed for F-type, you had to go ceramics at a £12,000 upgrade cost at factory or about £15,000-£20,000 additional cost to retro-fit to save 21kg.
These disc saved me 21.5kg so a slight improvement over ceramics, braking force and pedal modulation is greatly improved, not soley down to disc, uprated pads will help with that and they cost me £1800 fitted which was a bargain in comparison, the regular none discount price is £2085 +VAT for anyone else with an F-Type considering.
I've shed 50kg from the car with the brakes and battery without in any way impacting the cars use ability or creature comforts. In fact it rides better, handles better and stops much better. No more mods due now, just drive the thing and maybe next year tune it and put an SC pulley on it to see if we can get a 10s quarter mile run.
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Am sure they will be fine, they have same design on GTR's that are doing track work, all Wortec focus on primarily is brake disc design and innovating on how to reduce weight and improve cooling, quite a lot of other cars running their thermal slot design and all seems well, I won't be racing my car or doing a lot of track days and the disc have a warranty with them so should there be an issue I am sure they will resolve it.
I was originally going to go with just plain edge and plain drilled, traditional style as I believed the suncut would look smaller and the grooves would make too much noise. But once on the car I fell for the look for of them and though the grooves create additional braking noise, its only when braking hard from high speeds, so kept this design.
Plus at Santa pod the attention the car got and a lot of comments on how cool the brakes looked, its a unique design and certainly got a lot of good comments, the car had crowds of people around it at times.
It’s a lovely looking car and a few mods to make it yours is good just don’t go too mad.... lol..
I am pretty much finished now, its got my touch on it now and I am happy with it, maybe some more power next year, for now it will do.