Couple of years ago, I saw an NSX with ZMI titanium rotors. Wondering what you guys think about titanium rotors? Or have any of you seen them on FD's.

never seen them but i imagine that they are extremely expensive. Probably not even close to worth what you'd have to pay for them.

Yea what he said.



but it be cool to have them tho!!

Its definitely not worth the money (usually 4-5k). But wondering if its all hype or if someone could really benefit from a set. If you look at in terms of weight, you save 10-30 pounds per set. People try to save wheel weight (2-5lb) and spend 1000s. This could be another method.

yah and its heat expansion is a lot better than steel or whatnot! could you imagine the reving power a car with those could be like!!!

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titaniums rotors,

i personally cant see how this would work, due to the fact that titanium is very weak when it comes to heat,

this is why there are no 'FULL' titanium exhaust systems, only catbacks (the coldest part of exhaust..





whilst TI rotors would be preety cool, i find it to be a tad unlikely...



if im wrong i would like to know more, especially inregards to pricing, and what characterisic's prevent it from melting

You are absolutely right! I have never seen anyone with full TI exhaust system. Also these brake rotors are coated with other material. I think its complete bogus.



Also, if you want nice manifold for your turbo system, use Iconel. Some thought its TI based metal but its not.

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Some motorcycles have titanium headers from the factory.



Titanium is difficult to work with, and I wonder if it's heat dissipation characteristic is enough to make up for the mass reduction over cast iron rotors.



Chrysler used an aluminum MMC rotor on the Prowler, note that no one has jumped on that or titanium in any other production car, even Porsche went straight to carbon.