slotted and drilled rotors
06-11-2001, 11:34 AM
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ok, i was thinking about this setup, tell me what you thing. slotted up front, drilled in the back? how's that sound. Or do you guys think i should go drilled all the way around? slotted are more expensive. they're 90 apiece as apposed to 60. ok, just getting opinions.
06-11-2001, 02:09 PM
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ok, i was thinking about this setup, tell me what you thing. slotted up front, drilled in the back? how's that sound. Or do you guys think i should go drilled all the way around? slotted are more expensive. they're 90 apiece as apposed to 60. ok, just getting opinions.
ok, i was thinking about this setup, tell me what you thing. slotted up front, drilled in the back? how's that sound. Or do you guys think i should go drilled all the way around? slotted are more expensive. they're 90 apiece as apposed to 60. ok, just getting opinions.
06-11-2001, 02:15 PM
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Actually I would think that drilled rears would hurt performance. The purpose of drilled rotors is to keep the rotor/pad cool. Most aftermarket pads have to get up to a fairly high operating temp. to work at 100%, thus cooling the pad while not in use would mean the next time you got on the brakes the pad would need to heat up first. Under normal driving, even light racing, drilled rotors aren't necessary.
06-11-2001, 02:54 PM
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yeah, but i gotta replace the rotors anyway, so i figured i'd put performance rotors on. I run a little SCCA and i was planning on runnin the max in the fall. I was just wondering if anyone thought i should do drilled all the way around as opposed to slotted in the front, drilled in the rear.
06-11-2001, 03:01 PM
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Like Jeff said leave the rears alone, just pads will do fine. On the fronts get a good set of slotted rotors and performance pads. That's about the best you can do, anything more is pretty much unneeded.
BTW, I have autocrossed with both stock and performance pads in the rear, I couldn't tell a difference. They just don't do that much work.
BTW, I have autocrossed with both stock and performance pads in the rear, I couldn't tell a difference. They just don't do that much work.
06-11-2001, 03:07 PM
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here's the thing dude, they need replaced anyway. my front ones are too thin to cut again, and they're really cut into (from the guy before), and my rears are REALLY glazed and they're too thin to cut also (the guy before me really didn't car about brakes. but at least he had the VTC's replaced.) so here's the thing, why spend 50 on an OEM rotor when for 10 bucks more you get performance rotors. I am aware that rear brakes do much much less than the front, but i would like to keep it even all the way around. I don't want drilled in the front, regular in the rear. Plus if i gotta replace em anyway. . . . so it's not like i'm doing unnecessary brake work. My theory is when stuff starts to go, replace it with performance stuff, but i rarely change stuff that isn't worn out.
06-11-2001, 03:09 PM
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oh quick ?, when you were running autocross you had performance and OEM pads right? not rotors? I'm just makin sure. I have Carbon metalic all the way around and the biggest thing i noticed was less squeaking. I think my next set (if they workfor these rotors) will be ceramic. No dusting, and no squeaking!!!!!
06-11-2001, 03:15 PM
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OK I didn't see that you had to replace them anyway. I really like my EBC pads, they are great pads. I just saw an advertisment and they say that they don't dust. They might have changed their compound or something because mine dust pretty bad when they get hot.
06-11-2001, 03:25 PM
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Originally posted by HoJo
Actually I would think that drilled rears would hurt performance. The purpose of drilled rotors is to keep the rotor/pad cool. Most aftermarket pads have to get up to a fairly high operating temp. to work at 100%, thus cooling the pad while not in use would mean the next time you got on the brakes the pad would need to heat up first. Under normal driving, even light racing, drilled rotors aren't necessary.
Actually I would think that drilled rears would hurt performance. The purpose of drilled rotors is to keep the rotor/pad cool. Most aftermarket pads have to get up to a fairly high operating temp. to work at 100%, thus cooling the pad while not in use would mean the next time you got on the brakes the pad would need to heat up first. Under normal driving, even light racing, drilled rotors aren't necessary.
06-11-2001, 04:24 PM
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Originally posted by HoJo
OK I didn't see that you had to replace them anyway. I really like my EBC pads, they are great pads. I just saw an advertisment and they say that they don't dust. They might have changed their compound or something because mine dust pretty bad when they get hot.
OK I didn't see that you had to replace them anyway. I really like my EBC pads, they are great pads. I just saw an advertisment and they say that they don't dust. They might have changed their compound or something because mine dust pretty bad when they get hot.
06-11-2001, 10:17 PM
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ok here's the thing (i just figured this out) they dust, but they're not supposed to stick to the rims cause there's no metal in them. OK, i was talkin to phil (phil96se, the dude with the blown max) anyway, he says they make slotted and drilled rotors (like combined) so i may just go do that.
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