Ok i got into a minor accident today... Maxima 1 Ford truck 0.. Haha my car was perfectly ok the bumper on the ford truck was bent a bit but it was nothing serious and everyone is ok. But i realized my brakes arent the best. I was wondering if i should get the drilled/slotted or just the slotted rotors. Im wondering which will give me the best stopping performance. Any input is appreciated thanks!

 

I just recently put on Brembo blanks and hawk hps...it's a great improvement over stock. I bedded them in properlly and they stop the car very well, the best part is that they work even better when there hot!

 

I would think drilled and slotted for the additional ventilation.

 

drilled ones are prone to cracking from heating and cooling fast, slotted is much safer i think

 

honestly, blanks are your best bet. try some new pads if yours are low, and then try new rotors if you need.

 

The front bumper on our Maximas are surpriiiisingly strong. I've hit quite a few things in my time and my car always walks away with a few scratches, never any structural damage. Our rear bumper, however, can't quite say the same thing.

 

leave the solid rotors adn get some better pads. Hawks are my favorite. EBC's are cool. there are a couple of others out there. Pads used to give off gas so the slots would help to get rid of that gas. that is no longer the case with pads so nowadays slots and cross drilled are pretty much for looks. also change your brake fluid as if you have ever had brake failure it is probably bad. brake fade is cause by the brake fluid boiling and in its gas state allowing for greater compression. once this happens the fluid is not as good. flush it and use a heavier fluid (dot 4 or higher).

 

when adding drilled and slotted design to the rotors, you are actually removing surface area and thus will result in longer stopping distances.
I would change up the pads (hawk or something else) and upgrade the old tired brake lines. Braided Stainless steel. Technafit has a good set, so does irotors.
That will do wonders for the pedal feel and will put all the braking force to the pads because the lines are no longer expanding under pressure.
hope that helps.

 

if you're looking for what would give you the best stopping performance, you need to go with blanks

if you're looking for the better of the two choices you listed above, then go with slotted rotors. More surface area, more frictional force applied, better stopping performance. C'mon man, didn't you take physics?

 

listen to the man with the beamer in his avatar

 

if only it was in my garage

but yea, listen to the guy 3-wheelin during auto-x!

 

Stock rotors are small enough. Slotted+Drilled removes lots of braking surface area!

 

i just installed some drilled rotors today, i got them from my cousin who is a member on here and they work fine to me, they work better then my stock one i had on, but then again.. they were 10 years old...lol

 

i am waiting for the , Why Do some Porsche's and other exotics use Drilled or slotted rotors....well they are engineered a little different and better than ur normal run of the mill rotors even Brembos....well then u say Brembo makes most of the brakes for those cars...true...but there is a reason a porsche rotor is $400<---slight exaggeration but not for some cars for one side....totally different engineering process there....but actually alot of the newer ones are going away from drilled and slotted rotors....(I think it was a fad)

 

I get slotted cause it takes a little weight out of the rotor without diminishing performance and keeps the pads clean (rocks/pebbles that might get wedged in there...the slotted always keep a clean new layer of brake pad material there)...

 

rocks and pebbles wedged in your brake pads??? how do you stop?

 

lol...debris gets inbetween your brake pad and rotor sometimes, usually, one simple hard brake and it's gone...but slots seem to keep everything even more clean...

 

I got brembo blanks in the front, cheap auto parts rotors in the rear and hawk hps all around for about 20k miles now and i drive like i stole it. The weirdest thing is that when they get hot they work better, no warped rotor feel here. The onyl downside to the hawk hps is there is more brake dust then the oem but for the stopping power its well worth it.

 

this is tru.. my dad got a rock stuck between his pad and rotor and wut ur supposed to do is slam on the brakes to actually crush the rock.. but then again it was on a f250 super duty