Poor brake performance, slotted/drilled rotors?

[BajaFred]

I have a basic braking question. Are we talking brake fade here being the culprit? It seems to me that brakes take a tire up to the point of stopping completely, then oscillate back and forth, creating the anti-lock aspect. So what makes one braking system better than another, unless, again, we are taking brake fade? And my thought of brake fade is that it's not allowing the brakes to "stop" the tire any longer and the rotors are just slipping through the pads even with your foot trying to press through the firewall. In that case, that's very scary.

Fade I get. But outside of that, stopping a rotating object is stopping a rotating object. To me, the rest of the braking equation is friction, as in rubber to surface, be it asphalt, ice, dirt, etc.

Now, as I said, I have no idea of what I'm talking about. Just trying to think logically. Please enlighten me. Or flame me. Or belittle me. Or....

It's feel and fade

New BBK won't help you stop faster on the first panic stop, but they will help you on subsequent stops i.e. fade compared to OEM

Feel is the more important one, kind of like pedal commander, even though the distances are the same, it feels much more confident under heavy braking vs OEM

Whether or not that's important is up to you

 

[FatBuoy]

It's feel and fade

New BBK won't help you stop faster on the first panic stop, but they will help you on subsequent stops i.e. fade compared to OEM

Feel is the more important one, kind of like pedal commander, even though the distances are the same, it feels much more confident under heavy braking vs OEM

Whether or not that's important is up to you

Thanks, baja. That's kind of what I was thinking. Reverse butt dyno. I shall deem it RBD and blow my money elsewhere.