Interesting pics

 

LOL... haha.

I should sell these pics to K&N... LOL.

Andre

 

Andre, AWESOME. Do you still have it? If so, CALL ME NOW.

 

Nah... I don't. I took these back in July but I was only able to upload the pictures yesterday and today. The Camera takes pictures that are only compatible with a program called MIKRON... then from there they have to be converted to JPEGs.

My co-worker also just converted them into black and white (Grayscale). Will be posting those up soon as well.

Andre

 

I was just thinking... the amount of stress that those wheels absorb during hard driving is definitely what causes those things to get so hot. Just like when you bend a small piece of metal... it absorbs all the energy exerted on it and gets really hot, especially on the area where it deforms the most.

Andre

 

nice pics man!

 

Grayscale pictures are up.

Andre

 

Thanks Dude.

Andre

 

The wheels won't deform enough to generate any noticeable heat, especially alloys. The tires do almost all the deformation and once they get to their limit of adhesion, they begin to loose traction and do not stress the wheel any further. If you had a wheel deforming enough to generate a measurable amount of heat you'd probably have alignment issues. The wheels are most likely warm from the brakes, they just don't cool down as quickly as the rotors.

 

They do deform, just not that much. But if you deform something, even if it's a small amount, many times over, they do heat up. Yes, you are right that the brakes I'm sure have something to do with it, but I think the majority of it is from the constant stresses being applied to the wheels.

And the tires do deform to dissipate some of the energy, but the wheel is used as the connection point between the tire and the car so that the car doesn't go flying off the road.

Andre