daugen
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2014 Ferrari 458 Speciale First Drive - Motor Trend
this is a little far astray, but some interesting new high performance ideas, two of which puzzled me.
But I'm sure one of you know.
Ferrari even went so far as to add copper to the pistons, making them conduct and dissipate heat more efficiently while increasing tensile strength.
How does adding a super soft metal like copper increase tensile strength? I understand the heat dissipation, think Revere Ware pan, but clearly my metallurgy understanding is woeful.
and my chemistry isn't much better:
next-gen HT2 brake discs with added silicon
Now silica I understand in a brake pad, but silicon(e)? Ok, I looked it up, and they are all related.
Silicon is the basis of the ubiquitous synthetic silicon-based polymers called silicones.
so we have something that is both very hard and used in industrial abrasives and also something that can be extremely slippery.
I guess that's why the chemists get the big bucks, but I could not imagine why anyone would use what I knew as drawer and window lube in the chemical compounding for brake pads. Must be the industrial grit relative.
When brakes become a ten grand option, or way more than that in certain cars, you have to wonder what justifies that.
The Brembo brakes standard in front in my XTS are some of the best I've ever had. Serious bite without the vibration or grinding.
Tractor brakes sure are simple, aren't they? they probably still use something good like asbestos...
this is a little far astray, but some interesting new high performance ideas, two of which puzzled me.
But I'm sure one of you know.
Ferrari even went so far as to add copper to the pistons, making them conduct and dissipate heat more efficiently while increasing tensile strength.
How does adding a super soft metal like copper increase tensile strength? I understand the heat dissipation, think Revere Ware pan, but clearly my metallurgy understanding is woeful.
and my chemistry isn't much better:
next-gen HT2 brake discs with added silicon
Now silica I understand in a brake pad, but silicon(e)? Ok, I looked it up, and they are all related.
Silicon is the basis of the ubiquitous synthetic silicon-based polymers called silicones.
so we have something that is both very hard and used in industrial abrasives and also something that can be extremely slippery.
I guess that's why the chemists get the big bucks, but I could not imagine why anyone would use what I knew as drawer and window lube in the chemical compounding for brake pads. Must be the industrial grit relative.
When brakes become a ten grand option, or way more than that in certain cars, you have to wonder what justifies that.
The Brembo brakes standard in front in my XTS are some of the best I've ever had. Serious bite without the vibration or grinding.
Tractor brakes sure are simple, aren't they? they probably still use something good like asbestos...