Overheat or rotors?

['97boostinGST]

I really didnt know where to place this under, if there is another section please move it.

Last night I went out with my girl to go dine in Hollywood about 50 miles from home, ####en freezing air for us Cali guys around 40*.
Anyways, after dinner it was my dumbass idea to go to Beverly Hills to see the mansions up in the hills. I drove through a very VERY steep hill, poor t-25 was working it's lungs out but the temperature stayed normal. At the top there was a dead end, so i made a U-turn and came back down in neutral reaching speeds of 70mph with my foot on the brake at all times with swearvy roads. When we reached the bottom of the hill at a stop light, smoke was pouring out from the side of the car like crazy. I was tripping out since the temperature needle was normal and i had checked the oil before the trip and it was fine. I couldn't see where exactly was the smoke coming from, it was either from the front two tires or the side of the hood by the fender. I pulled up in the nearest gas station to see what the heck was going on, my first though was that i had blown the headgasket but there wasn't any coolant in the oil. I drove back home 50 miles kept it under 70mph this time fine, never bucked or anything out of the ordinary. My suspicion is that the rotors created enough heat to blow a cloud of smoke under 40* weather.
Any thoughts?

 

[agarc023]

Sounds like it to me. Shoulda kept it in gear

edit: meant about the rotors

 

[BigBeans]

It's very possible.

I've had a decent amount of smoke from the wheel wells of a few cars from just a few laps road racing. Most stock brakes are fine for 99.99% of situations on the street, but under extreme conditions like road racing or a long stretch of a steep grade riding the brakes, they can overheat, and they do tend to smoke, sometimes a lot, when that happens.

It's a very different smell than coolant. It smells more like clutch i guess.

 

['97boostinGST]

Forgot to mention that I have aftermarket drilled and slotted AWD rotors with StopTech pads if that matters.

 

[Tyeler18]

I'd say rotors/pads. May want to check to make sure they didn't glaze over at all. You'll probably get some squeaky brakes now.

 

[Zdrummer15]

It could've very well been your brakes. This happened while riding with one of my buddies in his WRX. We were doing some hard pulls followed by hard braking and eventually he lost pedal feel and the front wheel wells starting spewing smoke when we stopped. He wasn't using any good track worthy pads either.

 

['97boostinGST]

Rotors still break good, haven't noticed any stopping power.
If they were the rotors I would of wanted to see red glowing rotors on a dsm