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Dec 4, 2013 | 02:08 PM

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Runge_Kutta

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Burning Brakes

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Brembo Brake Patents

8349231 Shaped composite material
7700181 Shaped composite material for breaking applications and a method for the preparation thereof
7172723 Method of producing a shaped composite material
6802403 Disk-brake disk

Here's a video on what apprears to be Brembo carbon composite rotors:

Magnesium door panels
http://www1.eere.energy.gov/manufact...ng_process.pdf

Magnesium inner panel in Cadillac SLS
http://www.intlmag.org/showcase/Fall2013_Issue21.pdf (page 2)

GM wins DOE funding for "Development of Energy Efficient Integrated Die Casting Process for Large Thin-Walled Magnesium Applications"
http://www5.eere.energy.gov/projects...lled-magnesium

Magnesium production
http://wardsauto.com/vehicles-amp-te...weighting-uses

Aluminum metal-matrix composite brake drum video

Dec 4, 2013 | 02:56 PM

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ChucksZ06

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You guys can make fun of skullbusa all you want but he is correct about the only way to significantly improve mpg is with lighter vehicles. I do not want to go back in time in any way but mpg has not significantly improved for 3 to 4 thousand lb vehicles since the late 50's. You could get 18 to 20 mpg highway with stock 1957 gm vehicles. I also agree the manufacturers are doing a great job complying with laws and providing wonderful cars. My son recently did a tour in Afghanistan and was telling about new brand name cars that sell for 2,000.00 there. They are totally stripped versions. Those vehicles would sell here if they were legal. Please save the safety and environment remarks as I am just trying to make a point.

Dec 4, 2013 | 05:54 PM

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Runge_Kutta

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Burning Brakes

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Personalized Brake Rotors (scroll down to the 3rd page):

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20130133995.pdf

Dec 4, 2013 | 06:49 PM

#24

eshuber

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From: Austin Texas

Thanks for the great post.

Dec 4, 2013 | 09:18 PM

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HellPhish89

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concerning composites.. GM, Ford, Mercedes, and a couple others were supposedly working on a project to create a mass producible carbon composite. dont know what came of it but yea. also, the carbon brakes on teh ZR1 are actually 1/3 of the price of what that sort of package used to cost.

Dec 5, 2013 | 02:16 PM

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Runge_Kutta

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Burning Brakes

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From: East Bay CA

Dec 6, 2013 | 04:04 AM

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From: For the strength of the pack is the wolf . . . . . . and the strength of the wolf is the pack.

Quote:

Originally Posted by fdxpilot

OP, try using carriage return once and awhile. When my IPad auto-sizes the chrome window, due to your very long lines, the print size is so small I need a magnifying glass.

I don't think that's what is doing it. Text will automatically wrap.

I think it's the way the YouTubes were imbedded. Need to use the [yt] tags.

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EDIT:

Actually, it was probably the very long string at the end of Post No 11.

Last edited by RPOZ51; Dec 6, 2013 at 05:36 AM.

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