Party people. Methinks it was a very good idea....

It is awesome - Here’s a quick time lapse I took riding out to it:

This one in Lebanon seems pretty neat.

In regards to different grades, not only will different grades of gray iron have different strength ratings, they will have VASTLY different purity ratings which can make a pretty huge difference in the performance of the material. When exposed to extreme heat cycling (as in with brakes!), the impurities will tend to…

The thing is, battery charging goes faster than Toyota thinks (especially as the battery gets bigger), and battery degradation isn’t as bad as Toyota thinks (if you use good thermal and charge management, and a bigger battery helps with this too by allowing normal usage to be closer to the healthiest ranges of state…

Looks pretty good!

Dear Lexus can you please stop building so many ugly cars!

Signed a person with eyes.

P.S The L.C is sort of cool.

I think you’ve got that backwards. The dickheads with the straight piped V8's and straight piped Harleys are the ones that ruined it for everyone else. 

OE rotors and almost all aftermarket rotors (even the really expensive ones) are grey iron castings....not steel.

Alright genius, how can you explain to me that the cast iron is changing it’s shape at around 1000F less than it would need?

I’d stay away from the drilled rotors, myself...read an article awhile back about a study finding that not only do drilled rotors not perform any better than plain rotor, they were actually really hard on pads (because you’re basically taking a super cheesegrater to them.)

Those are pretty aggressive pads. That may have something to do with it. I use the Centric Posi-Quiet pads as I dont track my car and they work great. Im happy with the results.

Thank you!! And when they do warp it’s from grossly inconsistent lug nut torque and even then it’s rare. When 99.8675309% happens is brake pad material fuses to the rotor at complete stops because the driver is standing on the brake. Over time it will build a bump as the car will be more and more likely to stop on the…

Did you read the article he posted? I’m guessing the pads/rotors were never bedded properly and the emergency stop left residue on the rotor, giving the ‘warped’ feeling, as they bedded in that instant and locally on one portion of the rotor.

Usually “warped rotors” create a vibration because pad material is melted on the rotor. If you have problems, try upgrading the pads.

Brake rotors are not made of plain steel. Stainless steel is used for motorcycles and bicycles primarily for cosmetic reasons - and because their short wheelbase means their deceleration rate is limited more than that of automobiles.

Well, that makes you like the 10th person to comment without reading the article.

Yes but it is still a stick-slip-effect, not warping. Anyways it is true that cheap rotors wear significantly quicker than quality ones and anybody that suggests it’s all the same steel and you can’t do it wrong has significant shortcomings of knowledge in this matter and should quickly stop suggesting anything.

Centric Premium Rotors for the win. Seriously, these are the best OE replacement rotors going.

Rotors warping is generally a myth.