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Originally Posted by NachtRitter
Yes, exactly... slightly increasing the vehicle speed (and therefore rotational speed) will have the same effect on rotational inertia as slightly increasing the diameter...
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Apply that to my old 4 door bronco, my c-350 by centurion. With only a driver seat, gauges and the steering wheel not removed from the steering wheel it weighed 6644 bls at weigh in.
"I do hope that the Ford engineers designed the brakes to handle slowing down that Ranger from it's top speed (what is it, something like 75mph if it's going full throttle down hill with a tail wind?) without the rotors turning into the consistency of melted cheese..."
Top stock speed is 95 mph. Pretty sure all ford trucks within the last decade are speed limited like that. With the Cortex tuner from Superchips my truck will go over 120 but the needle will bottom out and I dont want to break any of the gears or burn out the tiny little motor that drives my gauge.
The rotors heat up along with the pads more when they have about 1/3 life left and will start to smell like gouda cheese going down a steep windy hill. Like the hill I traveled every day 17 a from greenwood lake ny to tuxedo ny to Mahwah nj.