Porsche Reinvents The Brake Rotor - No Rust, Low Dust, No Fade!
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- Porsche Surface Coated Brakes (PSCB) are a brilliant new brake technology.
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Porsche Surface Coated Brakes have a thin layer of tungsten carbide on the outside of the rotor. This tungsten carbide layer means no rust, significantly less brake dust, and they don't have brake fade typical of cast-iron brake rotors. The tungsten carbide layer is applied using high velocity oxygen fuel spray, and provides a rotor that lasts about 30% longer than traditional iron rotors. Better performance comes at a price, but they're about 1/3 the cost of carbon ceramic rotors. These PSCB rotors come standard on the Porsche Cayenne Turbo and Cayenne Coupe Turbo. Check out the video to learn all about Porsche's world-first brakes!
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I'm an 11 on Mohs hardness scale after you pull out the whiteboard
You win best comment! 😂
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“Engineers have no feelings, so no feelings were hurt.” Truest statement ever uttered!!!
As an engineer I can assure you there are plenty of bad engineers and scientists. Don't trust them all.
Tell that to the prima donnas at my work places lol
@humandxp nope. Empathy is the logical conclusion to a mental equation that replaces x=them with x=me
Not only that. You will be amazed at the responses you'll get returned. If you wanna get ripped a new one, go argue with an engineer! Aussie engineering school was honestly one of the most hilarious experiences of my life!
@@THEGAMINGHELP101 As an engineer, I totally agree
Loved the "They didn't realize engineers don't have feelings" line. I once took a psych class titled "Introduction to Personality." The professor was getting frustrated because this particular class was very quiet and not really responsive. From the front of the class he said, "Come on! Let your personalities show!" I slowly raised my hand and glanced around nervously, but.. when he called on me I said, "We're engineers, sir. We're here to learn what personality is."
👑👑👑😂😂😂
Yes.
Underrated comment 😅
Engineers have a personality. The stable personality.
🎉
Now I know why people with Porsche never brake in traffic, it is too expensive.
Braking is not fuel efficient. I hate it, it contradicts my goal of getting somewhere fast
It's because they don't need to slow down for turns and you need to get out of the left lane.
The other way around....No they ride the brakes because they have too much power for civilian roads, and the aged owners get scared that the vehicle is moving too fast. These cars' potentials are wasted on most of the owners.
@@JL-gg7phwe don't buy cars to do what they can do, we buy cars to be happy knowing what they can do😊
@@JL-gg7phsounds like someone is jealous
Thumbs up for "Engineers don't have feelings, so no feelings were hurt" XD
Yes! Mini Brent Spinner!
Thumbs up, realistic response to 32k brakes!
It reminds me of one of my favourite engineer jokes, An optomist sees a glass that is half full, a pessimist sees a glass that is half empty, an engineer sees a glass that has been overspecified by a factor of 2.
sound logic has no remorse but the uneducated nannies should feel bad but they have no shame unless it's their peers
Eisan= 0 feelings :)
Jason will develop the first white board brakes. They will cost $20.00 and outperform carbon ceramics.
Plus, you can color on them!
the *true* "WhiteBrakes"
@@EngineeringExplained too bad the color becomes white every time you brake
@@nicholaslau3194 ah finally... Now I understand what brake-fade actually is then!
@@EngineeringExplained I want to see a video explaining wether or not whiteboard brakes are possible and if they are possible how good would they be, yall agree?
Jason: Uses hammer to measure length.
Me: "Ahh, I see you went to the Jeremy Clarkson school of engineering"
If it can't be fixed with a hammer, it's too complicated for me to understand!
You nailed it right there. Ah no, sorry... I am being a bit of a tool.
Should've used a banana. A hammer's length is too ambiguous.
/s
Clarkson actually has an (honorary) doctorate in engineering if you can believe it.
Meanwhile May is still organizing his tools
When I worked at a Jaguar dealer, we had a customer that tracks his F-type, for fun not competitively. He changed his pads and rotors 3 times due to wearing them down on track in just a few years... they were carbon ceramic brakes, and surprisingly they're the same price as Porsche's! he basically paid for the car again, but this time just in brakes. I think it would be cheaper to take a hit on depreciation and just trade in the car for a new one than to replace carbon ceramic brakes
@420 Friendly they are more concerned with selling new cars than worrying about repair of used cars, they also would not be paying that price for the repair anyways.
Lol
@420 Friendly I wasn't in sales, reasons unknown to me, we check the cars for maintenance stuff after buying them, the used car dept pays for brakes/tires all the time.
@@stephensheppard3501 we do pay close to that actually, the mechanics still get paid the same amount, and our cost was only like 2k less than retail
Due to that, some owners swap the pads to steel and then reinstall the original pads when it is time to sell the vehicle.
"70% of brake dust actually comes from the rotors"
I never would've guess that, I always assumed it was just the pads!
Also, the best part about those price breakdowns, it that in 20 years when the Cayenne Turbo is worth like $10000 on the used market, the brakes will still cost $11000 to replace with OEM parts
makes no sense that 70% would be from the rotors, the data showed was 1500x the wear on pads vs. rotors on thickness, the rotors are no where near 1500x the area of the pads
Porsche says that. But his own data says pads wear 1500x greater than rotors, and dust comes from pads. Anyone knows dust difference between organic and semi metallic pads is huge.
Also Porsche owners rarely buy their cars, they rent them, so they don't care about resale or any wear beyond 36-48 months.
Yes, if the pads wear 1500x the speed of the rotor, that's 1500 good reasons to expect the brake dust to be mainly pad
@@truantray I think y'all misunderstood EE, that "1500x" metric is specifically about the tungsten carbide rotors and the pads designed for them. Typical rotors are cast iron and the pads eat away at them significantly faster.
Metallic pads actually produce more dust because they remove more material from the rotors, which is a byproduct of the increased braking performance.
@@Balomis the 1500x was for iron rotors
"I'll put a white board anywhere" - Jason explaining aerodynamic mechanics while in a freefall during a parachute jump. 202X
Lets make it happen
That is one way to keep the presentation short.
Wait until he gets an onlyfans
@@SniperReady I've got $5 on it
I was thinking: maybe he should throw a white board on his Miata.
Imagine how much it would improve it's performance.
"How do you wake up in the morning?"
me: 4:17
This needs more likes
Ha ha
😂 😂
My guy that genuinely made me laugh. Thank you
Who are you even replying to? No one is even talking about anything mechanical here at all
“Engineers don’t have feelings”
I've been telling people this for YEARS,
"I'm not broken, I'm an Engineer."
GIGACHAD
@@stfu6397 'strue!
“I’ll put a white board anywhere” : absolute madlad
put it on a shirt!
"Engineers have no feelings, so no feelings were hurt."
You need to put that on some merch and sell it, my man!
Yes want
I'd buy it!
I like seasoning my cast iron rotors makes them last longer and I have a non stick surface
Lmfao
"Why I season my brake rotors instead of my brake pads"
jhsevs why did I understand this reference 😂🤣
@@jwalker7567 😂
I like to grease my brakes
This technology was used on bicycle rims for many years by a company called Rigida (renamed to Ryde). Their rims were called CSS (Cardbide SuperSonic - indicating the processes by which the tungsten carbide was applied to the aluminium rims. The wear rate was very low and the rims lasted much longer than normal aluminium rims. They did however suffer from brake squeal and somewhat inconsistent wet weather performance.
And nobody bought them because the performance and cost surpassed the need.
Great example and quite funny, Thank you for sharing.
Those carbon ceramics cost more than my whole car to change.
32k could put you into a decent used Porsche too!
Same haha, more than my Crosstrek or my MX-5 new, or both of them combined at present value. 😳
Honey my brakes are squealing!
Don't worry babe, just go down to the dealer and pick a new one out!
And not a crappy car either!
Brendan Yup, you can get a 2015 macan for 20k
Cost is inversely proportional to dust.
Better use that regen in the Taycan or you're gonna pay
Give me brake dust, at least then I can see where my money is going.
No. Just look at ATE ceramic pads. Affordable and almost dust free.
"Engineers don't have feelings ... so no feelings were hurt." 😂 I love this! In fact, I actually need to start thinking and using this. Especially for some of the comments and DMs I receive.
yeah. maybe Jason could make a t-shirt... :-)
Reaching 100.000km on my 2018 Porsche Cayenne S equipped with those PCBS brakes from factory and they still look like new (even with a lot of towing 2.2 tons). Disks look like new, brake pads are at approx 50%. I really like this technology
Porsche Owners with Carbon-Ceramic Brakes: *Brake at a redlight*
Also them: "I'm never gonna financially recover from this"
LMAO
Carbon ceramic rotors last about four times as long as iron rotors.
J S - J S and cost 13.7x more than iron rotors. Probably not required on a Cayenne 🤷♂️
@@JS-nt3cn 4x2k is still less than 30k.
2k for brakes still hurts.
Porsche is not for regular customers.
I had a friend who owned a 928 back in the late 80s. He said "it's an amazing car to own for 6 months. He said that was about as long as you could afford to drive it before the maintenance costs would bankrupt you or you'd have to sell it so cheap that it would be a nearly total write-off. So nothing has really changed.
"I'll put a white board anywhere" probably the best part of the video!
So for carbon ceramic brakes, the replacement parts cost half of the price of a standard Porsche Cayenne, the car where the brake sits on. It is more cost effective to buy a brand new Cayenne and sell your old one than replacing the brakes.
This is literally the printer model of business. Implying that the car is somehow disposable
Saurabh Kulkarni
That’s exactly what they are planning
any car in parts is stupidly expensive... a couple years ago I read an article in a car magazine that did the math on how much a complete car would cost in replacement parts. They used the most sold car in my country, Germany, the VW Golf:
a well equipped VW Golf from the dealer, costs about 30,000€
the same Golf in OEM replacement parts (no labor) costs over 250,000€
now you know where the real money is made...
@@cedricfranzen8558 Seems interesting .... but it s a LOOOT OF MONEY (i was expecting like 100-150l). Anyway - did you find the article or something similar on the internet ?
Or just put on iron rotors, which is what most owners do at that point.
Nice job on the video. Don’t let the negative commenters get you down. They’re criticizing because that’s their only skill set.
Imagine buying a 2nd hand Cayenne in 10 years for $32k and the dealer says the brakes need replacement...
for another 32k lmao
nbd - slap on a set of iron rotors and you're good
NEVER EVER buy from the dealer... so much freat OEM parts all around, great quality, 10% of price
Ebay rotors for $150.... my wife aint tracking that lol
You say thanks and head to your indie who uses FCPEuro lol
Lmao
i loved the snark at the end about jacking safety
HAHAHAHAHAHA
Jack safely
*“That’s a level of baller I’m not sure I can comprehend”*
Yeah, that's his best quote of 2020 yet. 100% in agreement as well.
I think, “...Engineers have no feelings, so no feelings were hurt.” (10:40) is a good contender!
“That’s a level of baller I cannot comprehend” 💀💀
Hah, yeah, I liked that one too :D
This is by far your best video. I loled so hard when you started revealing the prices for the replacement brakes.
"I'll put a whiteboard anywhere" Needs to be on a shirt!
Yes!!
You just potentially came up with a million dollar idea 😂
i'd buy it
On a shirt with an integrated whiteboard, obviously!
A white shirt (so he's putting the whiteboard on his viewers)
“That’s a level of baller I’m not sure I can comprehend” 😂
Exactly... I wouldn't spend $3,200 let alone $32k 😆 holy moly!!!
I can't believe there are no comments about the ingenuity of putting the jack stand inside the frame of the jack.... I gotta go buy another harbor freight jack and find some of those stands that fit inside!
"I'll put a white board anywhere" lmao 😂
Also, TEN piston calipers!? Had i been drinking coffee when I heard that, I would've spit it out.
Love this channel!
"It has ten piston calipers"
*Looks at my twin piston front and single piston rear calipers*
Oh
they have been around for years...also aftermarket companies like Rotora and Endless make 12-piston calipers...overkill? definitely
That moment you have where you wonder if educating your audience on the technical marvel of automotive engineering is wasted on them because you have to film extra about how the f'n car is jacked up.
It would have overwhelmed the comments section otherwise, as happened on IG/FB haha. Cool brakes though, yeah!?
Lol facts! I've worked on vehicles for 24 years and not once ever had a mishap lifting a vehicle. School and experience teach you how to safely do it. The keyboard mechanics are fascinating creatures indeed. 🙄
For me it was good enough that he said I'm not going under the car. Then its safe. Yeah the car might fall on its brakes and ruin a bit of equipment. But if you're not under it you're safe.
@@Torchedini Fall on the brakes and ruin the concrete, 9 vs 6
I think engineers do have feelings after working with them for over 30 years!
Bruh you beat me in rock papers scissors. Gg mate
Yesss! 🙏
The majority your videos are excellent, as are your presentation skills. You present your topics clearly and in a concise, methodical manner. Additionally, the use of diagrams (as utilised by yourself) would enable even the less technically minded of your audience in assisting them in understanding the points your trying to get across. A+ to you.
... And you probably can't change them yourself, because it would require dropping the engine and transmission and then extracting the rotors from the top of the strut mount through the exhaust manifold (which requires a special tool that only Porsche dealerships have). Join the Right to Repair movement and do the right thing.
😅 don't worry...I got it
freezeme360 *whooosh*
@freezeme360 "it's just a condom , slip it on " this is what ur mom said the night u were conceived
I guess some people here have never worked on a car. You made me laugh. As a mechanical engineer I have wanted to throttle the person that designed some of the junk on cars. I mean really, why is the fuel tank access port on top, where you have to drop the tank to get in it. I am pretty sure we have the ability to seal one placed on the side or bottom where it would take seconds to access. Or perhaps having to remove the exhuast system to replace an O2 sensor. Or remove the entire engine to replace an alternator, distributor, or AC compressor. The list goes on...
@@court2379 The access port for the fuel tank is on the top, so that you can access it regardless of how much fuel is in it.
O2 Sensors mounted vertically can get too hot and if they are mounted from the bottom, condensation can collect inside of them, causing misreadings and failures.
My take away: diamonds are a 10 on hardness scale and I need diamond brake rotors.
Industrial diamond is fairly cheap don't know how to coat a brake disk in it though
@@burnerheinz cut the diamonds to be embedded into the rotor. Imagine flexing on people by saying your cars brakes has more diamonds then a rolly
Found the Dubai guy 😂
@@fleimlehner with a set of car brakes closing at 70000$ 😜😂
@@romanromero5099 For just one side.
"I'll put a white board anywhere" May god have mercy on your child's soul when you give them "the talk".
“God”
God with a capital "g" brother, don't disrespect the Lord, however slightly it might be.
OH OH oooohhh
Orileys
@ I didn't capitalize because I didn't want to be blasphemous to His name on an internet joke.
Those brakes cost more than all of the cars I've owned combined
Same haha! xD
Exactly. A good, reliable car doesnt have to cost much. Everything beyond "just doing its job" is pure luxury honestly.
Blows my mind seeing teens and young adults spending all their earnings on a used Audi just to sell it 2-3 years later for next to nothing because they couldnt afford maintenance.
Having watched your videos right from your first year over here, helped me with my automotive engineering big time.
Looking your channel grow to this scale after my education is done makes me very happy.
Best of luck for the future!
Imagine trying to replace the brakes in 7 years and the insurance company totals your car.
Yooo RIGHT
Will this cayenne be worth less than $40k in 7 years?
@@PigglyWigglyDeluxe at only 51% insurance companies can claim totalled meaning will it be worth more than 80k in 7 years
I had an '83 Olds Cutlass that I always left unlocked. When someone asked me why I said "if they break into it by smashing a window, then it'll be totaled".
Or imagine the devaluation rate on this vehicle after 5 years.
When brakes cost more than the value of 90% of people's cars
Fixed* When brakes cost more than the value of 90% of said purchased car after 5 years of depreciation
@@Theart0fstyle I'm not sure what you think 90% of people drive, but it's a solid bet that it doesn't take 5 years of depreciation before they're worth less than $32k. I'd bet that about 60% of them are worth less than that by the time they've signed on the dotted line and driven off the dealer lot.
There’s a better world, but certainly it’s pretty expensive.
I could buy a new car or I can buy brakes.....
babybirdhome I think he was talking about the depreciated value of the Porsche’s these go on lol
Lotus used Metal Matrix Composite (MMX) material for the brake disks on the 96' Elise. Mixing silica carbide into the aluminum gave the same hard surface. No wear, no dust, and excellent braking performance. The pad material attached itself to the rotor surface (a few micrometer thick), giving maximum adhesion friction, which you get if you have the same material on both surfaces. Material is constantly transferred between the disk and the pad back and forth during braking, resulting in the low wear of both pad and disk. The weight was as for aluminum, so very light compared to cast iron, reducing un-sprung mass. Aluminum conducts heat much better than cast iron and transfer the heat from the disk to the larger wheel mass and area. So temperature was about half of that for cast iron disks. Downsides were high production cost, and eventually metal fatigue issues from uneven thermal expansion of the different thickness of the boss and rotor when using such a hard and brittle material. Surface coating seems cheaper and better, except for the much higher mass of the brake disk with cast iron as base.
Came to the comments just looking for someone to mention Lotus MMC brakes. Thank you!
You need to sell a shirt with “Engineering Explained” written on a whiteboard
And an actual flexible whiteboard surface on the back
a wearable whiteboard
Hear hear
With engineers have no feelings written on it
And a pocket large enough for several colors of dry erase markers...
"I'll put a whiteboard anywhere" sounds like a threat
No, it's a promise
"I'll put a whiteboard anywhere." - How Jason got a job in porn.
9:41 “...that’s a level of baller I’m not sure I can comprehend”.
I've seen other famous UA-camrs who've let their family members raise a truck on just a jack and then their nephew is sitting under the rear suspension, working on it. If that jack fails, his legs would be crushed and his whole life would change. But they're also cavalier about safety in other respects as well, such as not wearing eye protection while grinding or drilling, not wearing seatbelts while driving on the open road, etc.
You did just fine suspending the car for a photo shoot, and until you pointed out the hidden jack stand under the floor jack, I hadn't noticed it and I still wasn't concerned.
And since you don't have feelings, then a sarcastic response to the haters out there shouldn't affect them, either. But nope, you kept it all above board and showed who's the bigger person. Kudos!
Me deciding if I should splurge and get $150 "racing" brake pads
Porsche- $32,000 take it or leave it
Not unless you’re racing... For street use the racing type are worse (like ceramic won’t work well until it’s hot, and bare metallic pads are really loud screeching and destroy rotors fast), so the best ones for regular street driving are the normal semi-metallic and maybe even some organic ones (but the organic ones are often worse). So unless you want poor breaking normally or screeching to the point your ears want to bleed then I wouldn’t suggest it.
What Jake said x 100.
So, 30% longer wear life, 500% higher replacement cost. Sounds about right.
This is how Porsche makes their money. They KNOW Porsche buyers will have to have it for their car and will upgrade to it immediately when they release it.
You don’t own a Porsche just move yourself. You own it to enjoy yourself. And relieving someone from the burden that money can be. Is also enjoyment to some.
@@taekwondotime and the buyers will buy the car and never actually take full advantage of these brakes
You make a good point. I am going to install those rotors on a DACIA SANDERO.
Good news!
@@CU08 There's a new Dacia Sandero...
Still better than a Kwid xD
Anyway....
James May would be very proud of you 😂
If someone called you an "engineer", that just means you've been too easy on us with the whiteboards recently! LOL
Scratches at level 8, with deeper grooves at level 9 😂
But will it survive a lighter to the scree...... wait , wrong channel.
But will it survive the bend test?
Collaboration!
Well, no. The entire point of Tungsten Carbide is for them to not scratch at level 8.
@@Steamrick it's a JerryRigEverything reference.
No doubt, Porsche knows how to empty the pockets of it's customers.
I bet they couldn’t even if they tried
That's not what Porsche is about. If you like to circle jerk about we auto motive technology a Porsche is for you. You gotta pay play and a Porsche is the cheapest way to get super car tech
One of the few car companies that can get away with taking features away and charging you more for it.
When you buy any exotic car. Whether that’s Porsche or not. You don’t look at the price of the parts. You’ll be looking at other costs. Hell you’ll probably trade it in for a new one in a few years. You’ll be making enough to cover the cost of it in about a day or less.
They literally don't know what to do with themselves any more. Who NEEDS this?
"Barely measurable"
Laughs in machinist
lol right? 1 thou is considered large 😂
john Bean Then I’m massive...sweet!
.0008mm is .00003 inches which it 1 three hundred thousandths of an inch, largely different that a thousandth of an inch
@@johnbean2596 especially when you work to plus or minus .0002
@@Mj-zc6sb real machinist doesnt work with inches
This could be used in electric cars. Since they practically don’t brake at all using brakes, but instead use recuperation, the rotor becomes very worn due to rust. So then when you do need to slam on the brakes, you find that they don’t actually work.
I've been driving electric cars for 10 years and rusty rotors have not been a problem for me.
The Taycan Turbo has these coated brakes as standard.
@Shawn taycan, Audi GT, plaid...
I agree. I recently drove an EV owned by a relative who almost never touches the brake pedal (he uses strong regenerative braking and tries to drive "one pedal" almost entirely), and even though the car is driven daily the rotors were clearly rusty - I could feel the grinding when I used the brake pedal.
"Super sonic speeds, above the speed of sound"
made my day
Jason is single handedly keeping Expo markers in business, LOL
Yes, but what about the dry marker dust? That stuff is deadly. 😯😉
I am an auto enthusiast from interior of Brazil and I use to study mechanical engeneering before I change to music education. I really love your Channel and aways see your vídeos as renewing my point of view. Thanks a Lot. Keep UP the Very good work you are doing.
"...changed to music education". And another one gone, and another one gone, another one bites the dust! R.I.P
You took time to answer a quote “commenter” respectfully. Keep up the good work.
Scratches at level 6, with deeper grooves at level 7
JerryRigEverything is that you?
Teardown in the next video?
My jaw nearly hit the floor when you announced those prices. NO JOKE!
HOLY CRAP!
Price out a Lambo or a Ferrari brake job with carbon-ceramic brakes...the Porsche will seem like a bargain!
"$32K for brakes! That's a level of baller I cannot comprehend." . . . LOL
Remember guys, when he says hardness, he means resistance to surface aberrations. Toughness is the resistance to impact.
Thank God this"engineer" clarified that for me
resistance to abrasion, not abberations. Spellcheck on?
@@davidc1961utube How would spell check help there?
@@davidc1961utube And the irony (pardon the pun) is you even misspelled aberrations.
@@DiscoFang I turned spell check off ages ago precisely so that it would not change words like abrasion to aberration. If my fat and shaky thumbs and crappy spelling lead to mishaps, so be it.
$32,000 for brakes! The transmission would be getting a lot of wear and tear from me using it to slow the vehicle down.
Imagine the cost for transmission service...
Sheesh i wonder what the labor is like 🗿
And those prices are WITHOUT labor.... The running costs of these cars are just stupendous! No wonder they are so cheap used lol
Various sensors were included in the prices, this isn't the pice of the carbon/ceramic discs alone.
The people buying these cars are certainly not worried about the maintenance costs..
You gotta look out, man. Sometimes those cars will reach out and drag you under before they simultaneously explode all their jacks.
“I’ll put a whiteboard anywhere “ 😂 had me dead
Love it! The last minute was greatly appreciated, you're the man
No Rust, Low Dust, No Fade, No Money left in your bank account! - Porsche
lol
Well if thats the extent of your bank account, you should probably not be buying a new porche regardless of the type of brakes on it.
I dont see the point bragging about money spend on your car if u can afford them. Go buy a cheap Car. Though i never see them complaining about Ferraris.
Porsche has 4 pistons on one real wheel, my car has 4 pistons for the whole car 😂😂😂 I feel so broke right now
Lucky. My car only has two. Rears are drums =P
Are you driving a rotary?
@@ThePentosin It could have one of those skid brakes like homemade minibikes have that just rub the tire.
Mine has 4 on one real wheel too 🤷♂️
Prepare to feel even broker(?), cuz here's the actual piston count @ 5:12 that you must've missed first time around😳😳😳
Those prices are insane. You can buy an e36 M3 for the replacement price of these fancy porsche coated brakes.
But why would you want a 25 year old car? 😉
Even the regular iron rotors cost as much as a 325. If the price of the iron brakes is anything to go off of then all of those are marked up about 10x from what they should actually be.
A prime example at that!
Why are people complaining about the price of an exclusive brand ? It's supposed to be exclusive.
@@scratchy996 WTF is exclusive about Porsche? Every overpaid professional is leasing one.
I’m a fan.... because talented people with incredible communication skills surpasses most educated engineering.
Great ... almost always the best technical explanations available. Thank you keep up your fantastic work. BTW just ignore stupidity.
"I'll put a whiteboard anywhere" that cracked me up
“Engineers have no feelings so no feelings were hurt in that exchange” I loved that haha.
When the "track day" is a whole family event...
Hahaha, love it!
...And have you seen those races where everyone's pulling a trailer? Good times!
Slide the wheel under the rocker for some added protection but looks plenty safe the way you have it if your not going under the car.Great videos, thanks!
Q: What directs air to keeps the ridiculously expensive brakes cool? A: the cheapest plastic we could find
As a mechanic, I can say thats the best option. It isnt very fun to tell the customer who ran over a stick and some air deflector that can be made of plastic and mounted with a ziptie, would cost 100 bucks to replace because its some fancy piece of metal/carbon fibre
@@esmo6341 since it's a Porsche it will cost anyway several hundred dollars for those plastic pieces
@@mezo72271 yeah sorry it was an understatement. I work at a mercedes dealer in finland so I should know lol
Great video as always. Important note: the systems doesn’t entirely come from Porsche. Bosch is the supplier and they did most of the development work.
Barely any company makes a car by themselves, ecu's from bosch, abs pump from bosch, hella makes a lot of headlights, wheels are usually co developed by big wheel companies. Brembo makes most brake systems for cars specifically. I get what you mean, but that's how it mostly goes in the car world. A car brand asks a company for something, and they figure it out (or not)
So when the brakes wear out just send the car to the crusher.
Nah, install iron brakes and sell it to some sucker.
@Daniel Brice yes. But the brakes still rust. So is still interesting to have these brakedisk that doesnt rust.
@Daniel Brice yayyyyy... 100k miles of weird, nonlinear braking...
that's the dream of the autoindustry. No fixing, keep buying
Literally: trade it in. There is legit no reason why you should keep it after five years. If you decide to keep it, put the standard brakes on.
That is an old machine shop technique called spray welding. Spray welding is often used to build up a shaft's OD after it has been damaged or machined a tiny amount too small (usually called an oops). The bearings on the end of a shaft has some tight tolerances, so this technique builds up a ceramic layer that can then be machine down to correct size. I am thinking Porsche figured out how to get a hot enough flame to melt carbide or did they simply melt a ceramic with a high percentage of carbide? There is a huge variety of ceramics that could be used. Usually they are brittle, so I wonder how they got around that issue. BTW, I am an engineer too. You do devolve a thick skin after a few years of people "critiquing" your designs! Enjoy your videos, please keep them coming!
There's no need to guess about the process - Jason shows it in the video. It was not developed by Porsche.
Hahaha, all talking about Porsche while wearing a McLaren cap, nice trolling 🤣
Haha, it's subtle. But the internet always notices! ;)
I want diamond brake rotors now
Baller! I'm impressed.
But for real, why aren't brake rotors made like clutch discs..... with the "wear material" on the rotor.
@@MrAPCProductions I'd think the main issue would be heat. Brakes have to dissipate way more heat than clutches, and it helps having that big metal rotor as a heat sink.
@Pauline Weinberger Diamond pads for your diamond rotors
30% longer life span, 4x the cost. Lol
Very Porsche ethos
I mean, it's just the same bell curve as anything else. You can get 80% of the performance for 20% of the cost, but if you want that last 20% of performance over everything else, then you have to pay the other 80% of the cost.
As an enginerring marvel this is nothing special, Make it out of depeleted Uranium and I will be impressed :D
Given the cost of labor though, having to replace it three times for every four iron rotors may take some of the sting out of that. It'll take a long time to get that many miles built up, but eventually you save yourself one replacement.
But no dust! And white calipers! White!
I'm also an Engineer, have done 20 years repairs by myself, for filming what you have done concerning lifting the car, PERFECT (You are not underneath the car). Where are you from? State? Greetings from Bavaria.
if they feel that that is unsafe I hope to god they don't ever see me when I'm working under a car lol
What about that one dude who just uses a 2 by 4 for support lol.
Screw a 2x4; get a log! Crush the rocker or get crushed!
Hope your family doesn't have to see you..... Crushed under the car
“I’ll put a whiteboard anywhere” 😂😂😂😂
Loved the bonus clip at the end.
“Let’s... brake it all down”... 🤣🤣🤣 thank you so much for existing and working hard at what you do!
You should swap those brakes onto your miata!
I believe the rotors are larger than my wheels hahaha.
For that price, you could swap your brakes *for* a miata.
gonna have to buy 2 miatas and stick them togehter just so the calipers can fit on
What I learned from this video:
Porsche is way too expensive even with standard parts.
Misleading title, 30% only more durable is not even "reinventing"
Exactly. Who tf spends $2k on standard brakes?
Who thought Porsche was ever an "affordable" marque?
The moment when your brakes cost more than my car...
Even the iron brake do... So... Something to consider! 😂
Hell, those carbon firbre brakes cost more than my house did in 1977.
To my knowledge those calipers are $5k a piece. Don’t remember how much the rotors are, about 500-1k a rotor and fragile lol
Nothing like modern tech to blow your mind and wallet.
For that amount I think I'll just keep dragging my left foot outside the door to stop the car.
Yeah my boots only$200 and that's pretty high for boots but I bet I will still come out cheaper than the carbon ceramic whatchamacallits I can buy a lot of boots for 30 some odd thousand
Hahahaha. Its cheaper to replace worn out shoe.
Underrated comment 😂😂
Porsche thinks like JP Morgan
“If you have to ask the price, you can't afford it”
Yes..its commont thing..
Also i thing same way..
Tony Valdez , you are absolutely right. I am happy with my old & cheap VW. It takes me from point A to B without any fuss 😸
@@ahmedsyed3436 Good for you.
Generally, I believe this is true as well, but people shopping in a vegetable market would disagree with you. LOL.
@@nicholash8021 agree with you...even the rich and famous look for a bargain
When you mentioned the Mohs scale, it would be nice if you included the hardness of cast iron rotors
Probably not an appropriate scale. In reality this will be a much more complex engineering problem - even the fancy brakes are mostly iron.
For a simple comparison about 4-5 mohs
In engineering one uses HRC scale.
@@AcTpaxaHeu Rockwell or Brinell is indeed far more common than Mohs hardness.
Dima since this isn’t for engineers but for laypeople with the engineering explained, it makes sense to use a scale more commonly known and I remember the Mohs scale from Geology so it makes some descriptive sense to me
BMW: WE NEED TO MAKE DIAMOND PLATED ROTORS RIGHT NOW
BMW are amateurs in comparison.
If it says PORSCHE on the box it'll be twice the price of a BMW equivalent.
BMW could only wish that it had the engineering department and R&D budget that VAG has.
You are talking about a super automotive group that shares technology and engineering across brands like Porsche, Lamborghini, Bugatti, Audi and Ducati.
Vapor deposited Diamond coatings have been a real thing for ages. Mixer Bearings, B&W tweeters are two I have personally used. Probably not much more expensive than this process, maybe a little.
Would potentially make the rotors shine even brighter hehe
Couldn't possibly be more expensive.
But for real, that would actually be DLC, which gets coated on all types for things for wear resistance. The first major problem would be that it's extremely slippery.
i saw these in a car park on a porsche of course and i couldnt believe my eyes they are huge!
As always, a great video. I’m a bit skeptical of Porsche’s claim that 75% of dusting is from the rotor, particularly for track pads. Pads in general run the full range of dusty as hell to little (particularly ceramics). Another thing that surprised me was the comment that these felt like conventional brakes. I was a passenger in a new Cayenne which my friend had on loan when his 2018 Cayenne was in for service. For the first day he he had it, he almost put us through the windshield several times, the initial bite was markedly increased. Took him a day to get used to it.
Gather some of the dust from regular brakes and you'll see that it is strongly attracted to a magnet.
2:30 it is exactly thickness of most common copy paper.
From my experience tracking cheaper cars with iron rotors: rotors wore out after about 4 sets of pads. A friend of mine who has way more experience tracking cars has been tracking his car with carbon ceramic brakes for the last 5 years or so, and has yet to need to replace a rotor.
The cost comparison needs to be for N-sets of pads (per the manufacturer's estimate) plus one set of rotors for a total cost per M miles, and then turned into a cost-per-mile estimate.... otherwise you're comparing "things that will happen to you" with "things that won't happen to you" and wondering why the costs differ.
lol at replacing rotors
@Wypipo Trippin Not everything is about having the cheapest brakes per mile driven. Performance comes at a cost. I had regular cast iron brakes on one Porsche, and they lasted about 25K miles before wearing too thin. OEM Parts cost about $1700 for a complete brake job.. My next Porsche was a GT3 with carbon ceramic brakes - a $10,000 option. Predicted lifespan of the rotors is over 250,000 miles. I replaced only the pads at 75,000 miles, and they had about 60% life left. The rotors were still good for another 200K miles according to the dealer. This was after multiple high speed track days.
In the long run - the ceramic were cheaper. THey also weighed about 44 pounds less which mean increased accelerating and braking. I could brake 60-0 less than 2 seconds, less than 98 feet.
@Wypipo Trippin when you track cars, the brakes wear out a LOT faster. :)
One track day took out about 1/2rd of a set of pads. Per the above estimate, 8 took out rotors. This is on a Corvette that otherwise would have gone over 50k miles on a single set of pads easily.
Per my friends experience with carbon ceramics, ~20 track days had done nothing evident to the rotors.
So that "million miles" equivalent comes up a heck of a lot faster in tracked cars than you'd think. :)
@@Francis-rs7zu ceramic needs pre-heating to get 100% performance. Not the point on regular daily crawling. Is it worthy? In your case i guess so.
The replacement cost on those brakes is laughable! The ones that it come with from the factory are 7.5% of the cost of the entire vehicle, that's crazy! PS great video!
Interesting. I wish you had emphasized the brake dust reduction a little more. Brake dust is a big contributor to poor air quality in big cities and having somewhat "affordable" pads that can help tackle this problem is great.
Volkswagen has been spotted testing brake dust vaccuums for their new cars to put into perspective just how urgent this problem is.
I feel like regenerative braking is a better solution than trying to vacuum up the dust :/
Oh, now VW is concerned with participant pollution. They probably turn the vacuum off as soon as it leaves the showroom to increase the mileage. I can see the headlines now 'VW Brake Vacuum gate'. Whats a few hundred thousand deaths, a few billion Euros and a little jail time between friends? 😯😢
Yes, but the main polluter from brakes is copper, and that is been removed from new car's pads.