Zenak

Ok, Baer's suck *** for road courses. Once I went to a good friction pad they cracked so bad it looked like the economy!

Im looking for a decent rotor that i will get a few track days on. Im on Carbotech XP8 F & R.

What Rotors are you all using? WHERE do you buy them at a decent price. There are a few lame threads on autozone stuff, but otherwise nothing else. Worth stoptechs? etc? I dont want that cheap Chinese crap.

The Spark

I bought PFC 2-piece front rotors and have been happy with them.
I bought some NAPA rotors and they cracked in 2 weekends. Bad cracks - not little cracks.

I'm running GM rotors on the rear.
I use Hawk DTC70 front and DTC60 rear.

longdaddy

stoptech "stock replacement" rotors crack as fast as napa's in my experience. from all the posts i have read it seems the only people who are seeing more than 3-4 days on their rotors are the ones who have invested into expensive setups.

i usually run the rotors until they snap and are not usable. anything under $200/rotor lasts for 2-3 days, 4 at the most.

kelp

Brembo, I choke on the price but they last forever.

rasrboy

I run Hawk DTC-70's front and rear on the T1 car. I use the GM rotors
and my local dealership sells them to me for $50.00 each.

I have tried NAPA rotors and had decent results, but I seem to get more life out of the GM's.

I ran 4 Quals and 4 races and they could probably make it another single race weekend. Now, all tracks vary on pads/rotors like Roebling and Nelsons are easy on pads for example. Mid-Ohio a little harder and CMP harder.

Either way, look at the rotors after every session and obviously carry extras.

Aaron

dvandentop

hardbar front 2 piece rotors, afx motorsports rear 2 piece rotors with ebrake

have lasted many days this year and still going strong

longdaddy

bears repeating, although no matter how hard i look at them, I inevitably end up pulling into paddock with a broken rotor

trackboss

In my experience all the high end two piece rotors with aluminum hats are really good quality. Personally I use stoptechs (the entire 14" kit) and have found they last extremely long. I've used their stuff on race cars in the past with same results. FWIW, my most recent replacement rings from them are cast in Italy. From some very trustworthy sources I've been told that performance friction makes about as good a rotor as anyone. Brembo, alcon, and AP are up there as well. In most cases you get what you pay for with this stuff.

RaleighSS

I know you said you dont like the cheep ones but i have been getting 2 or 3 events out of a set of Napa Rotors .... At 40 bucks each I dont think i can beat that deal. Say I moved to a 200 buck rotor I do not think its going to last 4 times as long ... I do try and take care of them at HPDE ... I am not running at 100% every lap I may go ***** to the walls a few laps then run 80% to let them cool down and run again ... then after checker flag if possible I try to never touch the brakes..... running through the pits down the road for a few minutes to cool them down ....

0Vector Vette

I use Performance AFX rotors on my racecar with Cobalt Friction brake pads. Ran the entire season last year on 1 set of front rotors and 2 sets of front brake pads.

Give us a call or pm me if interested.

Robert Finlayson
Performance AFX Motorsports
630-844-0089

AlwaysInBoost

Keith, I'm running rockauto rotors @ $30 a corner with XP10 pads & DRM cooling ducts. 2 events done so far with them and no cracks!

NewFoundPower

Same here but without the ducts (for now). I definitely recommend some ducts.

I haven't had any major crack problems, just the normal heat cracks. But I do bring a spare set with me just in case.

argonaut

At advanced intermediate pace I got 6 track days out of Rock Auto's Centric rotors. XP10/8 and DRM/Quantum ducts. This was at tracks that aren't particullary hard on brakes though.

96CollectorSport

StopTech 2-piece areorotors, they have been on the car for 4 track weekends and going strong. The 1 piece stock replacements will crack like any onther 1 piece rotor. Look at the 2-piece and you'll be happy, we run DTC-70 front pads.
Truely you are going to get good long life out of any 2 piece rotor, you just have to compare the price of replacement rings. The rings for the StopTech 13" Aerorotors for the C5 are $145 each, you probably won't find a good ring cheaper than that.

spazegun2213

I use DBA 5000's with DTC 70 pads, from KNSBrakes (vendor here) and DRM ducts.

Thus far... 6-8 weekends with no problems at all... and I'm NOT easy on my brakes.

Zip Corvettes

Actually more than 4 times that of the NAPA or other China rotors. Plus you don't have to worry about one coming apart and then not having any brakes. I am not sure what $200 rotor you are referring to, but I am talking about our two piece that is built for us by Performance AFX.

SLandstra_Z06

Justin -

With the Performance AFX rotors and Cobalt XR2 2 piece brake pads I got over 75 track sessions (18 HPDE days - consisting of four 20-25 minute sessions per day) on my first set. The rear Performance AFX rotors with the integrated parking brake design are still going strong on my 09 Z06 with 130 track sessions.

I couldn't be happier with the Performance AFX/Cobalt XR2 brakes.

Thanks for creating a great product for our cars Justin.

Steve

CP Thunder

If you are going to stay on stock replacement rotors..........and were using Hawk pads........switch to Cobalt pads .........much better rotor life.........

rasrboy

I too have heard good things about the Cobalt pads. I spoke with Robert at AFX and am anxious to try them out.

When I use up my Hawks I will buy a pair and see what happens.

Aaron

rfn026

There are some measurements you need to check with your rotors. The critical one is the "air gap". A lot of companies are enlarging the air gap (the width of the vanes actually). This means it takes less steel to make a rotor. When you use less steel you can make a lot more money.

There are several lawsuits over this. The Feds say they're "monitoring the situation. Raybestos is running some informative ads in the trade publications over the whole situation.

I've got an article coming out shortly in Corvette Fever that gets into all the details.

Richard Newton
Race Cars 360