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"Van Man, rocks the Man Van" (jacoboconnell) 11/01/2015 at 08:45 • Filed to: Porsche

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GhostZ > Van Man, rocks the Man Van 11/01/2015 at 08:50

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The Frisbee brakes must but what they put on the Cayenne.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > Van Man, rocks the Man Van 11/01/2015 at 08:53

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These are the saddest calipers ever.

However, it makes me wonder why nobody has made saw blade shaped novelty rotors. Or anything fun at all with the portion beyond where the pads land...

C62030 > Van Man, rocks the Man Van 11/01/2015 at 08:57

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What about silicon car-ca-*runs away*

davedave1111 > Eric @ opposite-lock.com 11/01/2015 at 09:01

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You can get them, but there’s not much point. Generally you want the largest discs possible, so if you have clearance for the pokey-out bits, you have room to increase the disc diameter.

Plus, it’s presumably not worth all that CNC time for any purpose other than being blingy - which may be why you see them on motorbikes and mountainbikes, but not on cars.

TractorPillow > Van Man, rocks the Man Van 11/01/2015 at 09:02

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Or iPhones of course.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/a16854/ip…

Van Man, rocks the Man Van > TractorPillow 11/01/2015 at 09:06

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I remember that.

red014 > Eric @ opposite-lock.com 11/01/2015 at 09:06

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Audi offers these on the R8. Not quite saw blades, but interesting nonetheless.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > Van Man, rocks the Man Van 11/01/2015 at 09:43

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But you forgot the best ones.

Montalvo > red014 11/01/2015 at 10:44

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The only thing I can think of is that it’s done for more surface area to try and maximize heat dissapation.

Van Man, rocks the Man Van > Montalvo 11/01/2015 at 12:07

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Lightness

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > davedave1111 11/01/2015 at 12:24

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They would gain you a tiny bit of surface area where the pads don’t hit. The thing is that you wouldn’t want them to be like heat sinks as they’d get damaged easily.

I don’t think the pads ride on the bits that poke out. If you’ve ever pulled some really worn rotors, there is a channel where the pads rode and a high section at the edge... Hence wondering why people don’t make novelty ones, which apparently they do according to others here. Pretty cool. Just not quite as novel as they probably could be.

wafflesnfalafel > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap 11/01/2015 at 13:38

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nice - they would look great behind those flower/daisy wheels

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > wafflesnfalafel 11/01/2015 at 13:42

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Or...

pjhusa > Van Man, rocks the Man Van 11/01/2015 at 18:32

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My favorite site (besides Oppo and Jelopnic and Facebook and Instagram and other stuff)

davedave1111 > Eric @ opposite-lock.com 11/01/2015 at 20:06

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“I don’t think the pads ride on the bits that poke out.”

They don’t, which is why it’s dumb. Manufacturers sometimes claim it’s to increase the area for heat dissipation, but obviously that’s bollocks because you lose more side area than you gain edge area unless you’re doing something absurdly frilly.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > davedave1111 11/01/2015 at 21:21

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The section at the edge is already technically wasted. Doing something interesting with it is no different from body or wheel styling.

davedave1111 > Eric @ opposite-lock.com 11/01/2015 at 21:27

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Yeah, that’s what I was saying. It’s more obvious on bikes, so more common there.