It seems like the inside of my brake discs arent getting touched by the pad, i though maybe it was the new pads i put in with the wilwoods just making an uneven contact and would wear correctly with time, but my rears are now doing it too







It doesnt seem to effect braking, and there isnt a raised or lowered area, the entire disk feels smooth, just looks werid,..thoughts?

Or am i just retared and this is just where normal contact is?

 

anyone?

 

there are some pads that do that - not contact the entire rotor face. it's natural.

 

ok cool, thats the answer i was hopping to get

 

well major suckage now, my brakes are now getting so hot..from fairly normal driving its taking the paint off my wheels.

I dont think its the brakes fault, but SSRs cheap clear coat (wheels are still awesome though) so know i need to get those suckers powder coated, at least the wheels are sliver so you cant really tell other than the flaking inside the wheel, but its starting to effect the outside where it comes in. I thought it was a break fluid leak, but i'm not losing any fluid since i posted and i get no break fade. Just something to consider when you upgrade your brakes.

 

wow, how are they getting that hot? did you bed them in (both rotors AND pads)? i didn't know SSR's had cheap clear coat. it's kinda hard to believe that they are getting that hot that they would mess up the paint. hmmm....i'm not calling you a liar or anything, but there's gotta be something else.

 

is that a factory wilwood kit?

 

i thought it was a fluid leak, i'll check more throughly tomorrow, but i didnt see any leaks. Its very bad on the drivers side, most of the inside paint is gone, and some of the outer paint is coming off. The passanger side doesnt look bad, but it looks in places like its starting to show.

I'd imagine if it was a leak big enough to remove all the inside paint in the wheel, i'd be running out of fluid every other day or so, and it would be in spots, but this is almost the entire inside of the wheel, like someone took a rag soaked in paint thinner and rubed it all on the inside.

If you can think of anything else that might have caused it, let me know, other than heat i have no idea. I never really get on the car that hard, and i went realy easy the first 2-3 weeks having them. It sucks but its just the paint, i can get the wheels refinished.

I have no brake fade, and my fluid is full, so i cant think of anything else that would take the paint off.

 

hmmm....is it clear coated on the inside of the wheel? most manufacturer's don't normally clear coat the inside. did you maybe use some type of detergent when you washed the wheel? there's no paint coming off of the caliper? if there's a leak, it's normally there first where the paint gets crappy, not the wheel.

man, this is weird! and it only started when you put on the wilwoods? were they a brand new set of wheels?

 

here are some pics, got any ideas let me know

 

caliper looks fine, dont see any paint. I've had the wheels about a year, no problems, and this just started after the wilwood brakes.

 

Holy crap... thats pretty bad. Are your brakes smoking even after a normal drive? I don't see how those wheels would do that though, thats insane! Maybe you got ripped off? I dunno...

After a normal 10 minute drive you should be able to touch the surface of the brake rotors, shouldn't be extremely hot.

Maybe your front brakes are putting pressure on the rotor at all times... lift the front of your car off the ground and see if you can turn the wheel with your hand, should be very easy to turn. If its hard to move or wont budge then it sounds like your calipers are squeezing too tight. At which point I think i'd check your fluid level, maybe bleed the brakes...

 

there looks to be some residue on there. it doesn't really look like heat damage, especially on the picture of the spot on the outside of the wheel. i know this is going to sound redundant, but check the fluid level and ensure it's on MAX, check ALL the bleeders to make sure there's no fluid coming out of them. it could very well be on the inner bleeders. since you've had the wheels on for a over a year and this problem only came from the install, the fluid, imho, is the only suspect, not heat. sorry i couldn't provide a better answer.

 

no smoke from brakes, car turns fine when braking and turning. The only other thing i could think off is driving through some chemical that did that, but that really doesnt make sense

 

well, in the pics of the outer rim, there seems to be some sort of "fluid runoff," like a trail...you know what i mean?

 

yeah ill check tomorrow, i'm going to take it off and clean them. I pushed them down several times with the well on and saw no leaks, fluid is just a little over max.

As i said, it sucks, but its just paint, if its a leak, or heat, ill just get them clear coated and cover it up.

 

yeah, but i wiped it off with my finget, and the paint didnt come off, it's probley just water doing that (it rained earlier today)

 

Is it doing this on both sides? Now that its been mentioned it does look like fluid of some sort...

Is that stock size rotors with 6-pot calipers?

 

its all on the drivers side, i dont see anything on the passenger said, ill check for sure tomorrow

and no its wilwood 6 pistion and rotor kit

 

No way that's heat. I drive at the track and spend alot of time there and have never seen a car ever heat the wheel to the point of paint failure. That's brake fluid. No doubt about it.

JET