fka smurfette

I would think that chunkier, more monoblock wheels (like on some A6's, and the AMG ones from MB) would make your brakes hotter b/c of less air flow (=less cooling by convection (?) when in motion, as well as holding in heat when the car is not moving, as opposed to a more open spoke design like SSR's or BBS wheels. Am I right or wrong?

Shon

Bill In SoCal

Correct, You are NOT the weakest link

fka smurfette

woohoo!

T60West

One of the reasons I got BBS RK's for my S4

MikekiM@PureMS

Cooling is convective and conductive. So by virtue of there being a large block of aluminum attached to the brake, that large block acts as a sink to drain the heat away. The more mass there is, the more it heat it can absorb.

So it's actually a little more complicated to determine if one wheel has better cooling than another. If you're just concerned with convective cooling, than an open spoke design cools better than a monoblock (MAE, or AMG) style. But it's more likley that the monoblock design will cool better conductively. How the two compare against each other probably requires some in depth heat transfer analysis.

fka smurfette

so it's not directly conducting heat away. But I see your point.

Shon

TheMoney

although, as you say, you'd really have to do a simulation and/or some measurements to see how the different factors balance out

TipSter

Go touch your wheels after some hot laps and answer again.

fka smurfette

no thanks - that would hurt! (ok, ok, I get it)

StealthMobile

Anyone can have a bad day! I know you installed your SSRs - what did they mount against?