waddisme

AZ is having a 20% off $100 or more sale with free shipping. $92 shipped for a pair of front rotors. Just curious how they last. I know the vendor here has a full set for $125 shipped, but I have like 8 rears and I didn't crack a single rear last year. I run the XP12s up front. I can usually get 16-20 sessions out of the used stock ones I buy from members here.

BTW, the rotors come with a 2 yr warranty.

sperkins

Until they find out it's for a track car.

Autozone lost my business last week when they fired an employee for breaking up a robbery.

http://foxnewsinsider.com/2012/12/05...armed-robbery/


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Scooter70

Brakemotive will do just the fronts for ~$69 shipped. They have worked ok for me, though I still only get 2-3 days on track with them (w/DTC60 pads). At our hard-braking track here in Michigan (GingerMan) I typically crack at least one a day.

drivinhard

Ditto.

I gave up on the cheap chinese rotors when it cost me a race a couple of yrs ago. At nationals 2011 I put on fresh 2 pc rotors front and rear, 4 wheel to wheel races and (I think) 30 TT days later, they are still on the car. They are cheaper (much cheaper!) in the long run.

ZedO6

Yup. GM factory rotors are only marginally better. I get them at cost and I'm still considering going with 2 pc rotors at least in the front. Too much chance of missing a session or running out of prep time due to a cracked rotor.

braknl8

...another vote for no AZ.

Just bite the bullet and get drivinhard to make you a set and be done.

AU N EGL

When the rotors were cast in Canada or McHenery ILL, those worked well. The GM OEM Brazilian ( black hats) were OK too.

But the Venezuelan and Chinese rotors are junk.

Rob31

Where in McHenry ? My back yard ...

AU N EGL

that I dont know. But use to be a Raybestous foundry there that made many many brake rotors for many differnt companies.

Been closed now at least 7 maybe 10 years

drivinhard

yes, the NAPA Canadian ones were $25 when I bought my first C5Z in 2006 and they did last longer than the Chinese pot metal ones. For $25, they were worth it for throw aways. What's funny, is when they started importing the chinese ones, the priced doubled

Aside from the safety aspect (ask Beerkat what a busted rotor will do to your car)..DE is one thing if you have multiple sessions and you don't mind changing rotors at an event. W2W (and even TT to some extent where you need reliability in the sessions that count) you cannot have parts failing on you at inopportune times. A cracked rotor as you are coming to take the green flag after all the $$ and time you've spent prepping for a race weekend, COSTS you $$.

sperkins

Yeah, but I heard you can run 1:34's at Rd Atl with a busted rotor.

AU N EGL

Hell yah

brakes just slow you down.....

drivinhard

Jason ran 33's with two cracked ones in 2009. I remember him saying if you just lay into the pedal hard enough, you can't feel it as bad

brkntrxn

Get enough heat back into them and they will straighten out. Hell on the pad material, but works!

braknl8

Kevin, you been in Miami?....sounds like something Jason would've said.

Timz06

What Mark says, DE is the only place you want to run the junk.

I noticed with the two piece rotors, they can be cracked to hell and don't make any noise under heavy braking!