Touring Classics fronts installed

[Marty G Cars]

Here are the Touring Classics fronts installed on my budget 68 Camaro. Oh, and by the way for those (including my inner evil twin) of you that attempted to steer me towards a hot 427 SBC, I won the battle (for now) and re-installed the 2 bolt 350 with fresh paint and a new RPM air gap manifold.

[slck6t9]

Looks good. Does the "L" and "R" on the brakes stand for left and right and if so are they on backwards?

[ProStreet R/T]

Looks good. Does the "L" and "R" on the brakes stand for left and right and if so are they on backwards?

haha yes it does and yes they are.

[ProTeal55]

Better you found out now , then when everything was back togther :drive1:

Motor looks good. Amazing what a fresh coat of paint can do. The little 350 in my Bel-Air will be getting the paint treatment in the spring...

[rocketrod]

Looks good.

[Marty G Cars]

Ya know, David and I discussed the L/R issue and it didn't make sense to me to have the internal cooling vanes of the rotors facing backwards in addition to the fact that every other cross drilled and slotted brake kit I have seen (including Corvette and the others I currently own) have the slots (and cooling vanes) facing forward. I am just going to remove the L/R stickers unless I am missing something new and innovative here.

[texasdvldog]

looks good! Hey what kind of headers are you running? I got a brand new set of Headman Headers and a brand new set of Hooker Competion Headers. I have to figure out which ones fit better so I can send the other ones back to Summit.

[B Schein]

The idea of the Vanes in the rotor is to blow the air out not Suck it in. I would defiantly put them on as marked. Other wise you will be dealing with warping and premature rotor failure due to increased temperatures

[Marty G Cars]

I'm running Hooker super comps (1 - 3/4) and I guess I'll be flipping the rotors to the sides they were marked. It'll be no big deal since no line are attached yet. I guess Touring classics just use rotors that have the slots facing the opposite direction of the others I have used (Baer, Stoptech).

[69rs]

Looks good, Marty! :icon996: I'm glad to see that you and David have learned you left from your right, :look: cause in another few weeks we will be doing the same thing to mine! Who knows, the stickers could have gotten wet and fallen off when I was up there :drool: on your brakes!

[79_EFI_Z]

my bear's face backwards... and are installed as marked. not sure which bear rotors you had facing forward... seems odd. :hmm:

[Steve1968LS2]

Very cool.. what does the whole front set-up run? Must be one of the better Bang-for-a-buck systems out there..

[B Schein]

Not to be redundant here with same info over again but, the idea behind curved vain rotors is to act as a thermal pump. You want to dissipate heat in the braking system not increase it. Why would you want to pull air into the center of the rotor where it has little area to escape? Buy pumping out the hot air you are cooling the rotor form the center out. It seams more logical to me to pump it out but then again what do I know I am just a dumb college kid.

[CAMAROBOY69]

Either way they will still work just fine and you probably wont even see any difference. If the L wasnt on there I bet no one would have even noticed.

[Steve1968LS2]

Not to be redundant here with same info over again but, the idea behind curved vain rotors is to act as a thermal pump. You want to dissipate heat in the braking system not increase it. Why would you want to pull air into the center of the rotor where it has little area to escape? Buy pumping out the hot air you are cooling the rotor form the center out. It seams more logical to me to pump it out but then again what do I know I am just a dumb college kid.

Your not pulling it into the center.. you are pulling it THROUGH the center. This way you are creating a vacuum. The other way you would be trying to "scoop" that air into the rotor. Given the small size of the passages I would think (some engineer could explain this better Im sure) that it would not move much air though the rotor. The vacuum would be much more effective at pulling air into the center of the rotor, through the channels and out the edge of the rotor. More air moved means more heat dissapated..

We need a diagram.. and a physics major.. lol

[73z-6sp]

The thermo-nuclear collision of the hydroponic atoms within the aqueous gases produced from the organic pads creates a population inversion between the upper and lower levels within said gas, thereby causing a net drift of atoms to the lower pressure area. Of course the taillight fluid would then require an exchange of fluid and you would be back to where you started...a worn out muffler clamp.

:)


College kids are dumb....WAIT! Im still in college. Scratch that...

[jeffandre]

I installed my Baer Eradispeed II rotors the same way the Baer gallery shows rotors installed on their cars:

[CAMAROBOY69]

The most funny part would be if this thread went out of hand then you find out someone accidentally put the "L" sticker and the "R" sticker on the wrong side before they sent them out. :doh: :hah: "L" "R" :lmao:

[slck6t9]

Adam the "L" and "R" was a joke. I DO know what left and right are(I think) :smoke:

Scott

[CAMAROBOY69]

Yes I understood the joke. But either the L and R are on the wrong side or the disks are on the wrong side.

[Marty G Cars]

Ok, the brakes are now switched as marked by Touring Classics. Funny thing is that I'm such a big poser that the only way my rotors ever get heated up is when I have the wheels off to detail everything and I wash it all with hot water. :thankyou:

[CAMAROBOY69]

hmm I really wonder which way they are supposed to go. According to almost every picture I have seen of disk brakes, it looks like you had them the correct way. Same as the Baer brakes that jeffandre pictured above. :dunno:
Just looked at the Mule. It has them the same way you did. I say just ignore the L or R and put them on how you want.

[Noel67]

The rotors are marked correctly. The cooling vanes should curve to the rear on a directional rotor. Chevy ships the C6 vette with two left front rotors. They claim that vane direction doesn't matter. I think I will install two lefts on my car to test.

Noel
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