Having a good set of brakes on your racecar helps to take the stress out of stopping at the top end, and can be a performance advantage. Brakes that perform well at the stripe, and have a consistent feel make turning on the win light that much easier in bracket racing. Strange Engineering makes getting that consistent brake pedal feel easy with their two-piece rotor packages.
For years racers used a one-piece rotor design that worked well, but as the mile-per-hour and car weights have gone up, it’s more abusive on the rotors and can cause them to distort. Strange has been producing brakes for over 20 years, and saw an opportunity to match a customer need to a new product.
According to Strange’s J.C. Cascio, a new solution was found with their two-piece rotor design for high speed braking. “Our two-piece rotor design ets the rotor to float on the rotor hat. By doing that it allows the rotor to expand more evenly to get less distortion. Even with those advancements the high mile-per-hour bracket cars that hit the brakes hard at the top end might see distortion over time. To combat that we now offer a two-piece stainless steel rotor. This unit is corrosion resistant but the biggest benefit is under heat these don’t distort and allow the brakes to stay consistent and the brake pedal feel to stay the same.”
These rotors are a part of Strange’s brake kits that include calipers, rotors, pads, and brackets. There are different pad combinations available that include a soft, medium, and hard pad. The pad is matched to the mile-per-hour of the car and we try to factor in the weight.
Make sure you check out the Strange Engineering website to see all the details on these killer brake rotors and kits.
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