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I requested an indepth comparison from Raybestos as to why their rotors are
superior to the imports that are 60% less. While I was looking for
metallurgical and tolerance differences, here's mostly what I got:

Cooling fins on vented rotors. When you slice these apart you see a big
difference in the fins. The OE fins are curved in varying ways, assymetrically
in most cases. Each application can be different. No modern vehicles have
straight radial vanes, although a few still have uniformly spaced curved, ar
angled vanes. The vane design is to enhance cooling, but the assimetrical
design cancels out noise and reduces squealing. Raybestos matches (and supplies)
the OEM.
The imported rotors all appear to have radial, equally spaced vanes. This
would explain why they sometimes squeal.
Also the straight, radial vanes do not pull air through them as efficiently.

The only other noticeable difference is that the center hole chamfer is
30-degrees on OE, and 45 degrees on most cheap imports.

If I get anything else I'll post
Rex in Fort Worth

speedy wrote:

> I wouldnt put anything marked "made in China" or "Made in India" on my
> vehicles!!

If your vehicles are at all recent, there are Chinese parts all over
them.
--
Bo Williams - williams@hiwaay.net
http://hiwaay.net/~williams/

Check the package for the country of origin.

I wouldnt put anything marked "made in China" or "Made in India" on my
vehicles!!

-SP

Speedy,
I don't see why you object to parts that are made in China or in India. Did
you know that nearly 90% of all after-market parts are made overseas? So if
they were made by a bunch of sloppy, "couldn't give a rat's ass about
quality" outfit that was made up entirely of white Canadians, you would
trust the brake rotors. But if they were made at a company run by
well-educated, conscientious and quality-conscious Indians, you wouldn't
touch them with a barge pole, is that it? I think your bigotry has no place
on these newsgroups.

Phil

"speedy" <seedy@raex.com> wrote in message news:3F6FF117.6020200@raex.com...
> Check the package for the country of origin.
>
> I wouldnt put anything marked "made in China" or "Made in India" on my
> vehicles!!
>
> -SP
>
>

Our paper today has the Click'N Clack column which happens to discuss
rotors. They report that they had great luck with rotors from (I
think) Taiwan and that they are much cheaper.

Agree with your point about not assuming that just because something
is made in China, it is junk (or in the US that it's good). Actually
you'd probably have to park your car if you insisted on no parts from
places like China or India (or Mexico or or or or).

On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 06:53:18 GMT, "phileas_fogg"
<oncebitten@twiceshy.com> wrote:

>Speedy,
>I don't see why you object to parts that are made in China or in India. Did
>you know that nearly 90% of all after-market parts are made overseas? So if
>they were made by a bunch of sloppy, "couldn't give a rat's ass about
>quality" outfit that was made up entirely of white Canadians, you would
>trust the brake rotors. But if they were made at a company run by
>well-educated, conscientious and quality-conscious Indians, you wouldn't
>touch them with a barge pole, is that it? I think your bigotry has no place
>on these newsgroups.
>
>Phil
>
>"speedy" <seedy@raex.com> wrote in message news:3F6FF117.6020200@raex.com...
>> Check the package for the country of origin.
>>
>> I wouldnt put anything marked "made in China" or "Made in India" on my
>> vehicles!!
>>
>> -SP
>>
>>
>