03-04-2010, 09:42 PM
mikebw wrote:
There is a difference between the engine overcoming the brakes, and the brakes overcoming the engine. If the car is already stopped there is no momentum on the rotors, fully apply the brakes and you get a great amount of static friction, then go to WOT and the brakes will probably hold. Now if you start with the car in motion at WOT, when you apply the brakes there is a large amount of kinetic energy to convert to heat in order to stop the car, and the hotter the pads get the less effective they will become. So I think it would very much depend on the situation whether or not the brakes will win.
Precisely.