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03-06-2008 #1
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Black Rotors? Pics?
Trying to decide if I want to do this. Share some black rotor pics please!
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03-06-2008 #2
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I do not know of any that stay black?
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Black rotor surface?
The only ones with a black surface that stays are carbon rotors.
cadmium plating will eventually wear off.
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EBC rotors are advertised as black zinc plated. Will that wear off??
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Sure will. It's only a plating. As soon as they wear in, that plating will melt off. And it sure as heck wont make it past the first time you have to have them turned.
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Ah... good to know!
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There isn't much of anything you can put on a rotor that the brake pads can't take off, unless you're talking carbon like Tony said above.
Different color zinc chromate finishes are available, however they tend to vary somewhat in their ability as a corrosion inhibitor. Yellow, clear (silver), and olive drab do the best in a salt-spray cabinet with black and blue bringing up the rear.It's what I does.
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