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Originally Posted by Ecky
Aluminum is a better conductor, but has lower heat capacity. It's wonderful for pulling heat away, but becomes saturated sooner. I'd say steel probably can take longer periods of hard braking, all else being equal.
On the other hand, the Insight's drums also have cooling fins.
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Cool stuff! Thanks for sharing that one. My S10's drums have fins like that...but it's a truck...and it's drums are steel. :P
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