C4 Brake Upgrade
Racer
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Any real race car with drilled rotors has special ceramic discs, not your typical rotor. Your typical rotor that's cross drilled will crack if used for what corvettes should be used for. I have a set of drilled rotors on my car right now that are cracked, they lasted me two months of aggressive street driving. They weighed the exact same as my solid rotors on the digital bathroom scale. My dad cracked a set in an hour at Barber in his '02 Z06. I've seen first hand a new Z06 with the factory drilled rotors that were cracked. If you drive miss daisy, you could probably get away with drilled rotors.
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Le Mans Master
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From: Hudson Valley Region, NY The "sonoma/napa" of the Northeast~~~~~ Are we there yet?
St. Jude Donor '08
Originally Posted by Wildcat1
Any real race car with drilled rotors has special ceramic discs, not your typical rotor. Your typical rotor that's cross drilled will crack if used for what corvettes should be used for. I have a set of drilled rotors on my car right now that are cracked, they lasted me two months of aggressive street driving. They weighed the exact same as my solid rotors on the digital bathroom scale. My dad cracked a set in an hour at Barber in his '02 Z06. I've seen first hand a new Z06 with the factory drilled rotors that were cracked. If you drive miss daisy, you could probably get away with drilled rotors.
there is no miss daisy driving going on here
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Le Mans Master
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From: Hudson Valley Region, NY The "sonoma/napa" of the Northeast~~~~~ Are we there yet?
St. Jude Donor '08
ok so let me get all this straight
bendix rotors (not cross drilled or slotted) with a zinc coating to eliminate that horrible black dusk
hawk pads????
bendix rotors (not cross drilled or slotted) with a zinc coating to eliminate that horrible black dusk
hawk pads????
Melting Slicks
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From: Cincinnati Oh
Originally Posted by SpeedRacerGirl
ok so let me get all this straight
bendix rotors (not cross drilled or slotted) with a zinc coating to eliminate that horrible black dusk
hawk pads????
bendix rotors (not cross drilled or slotted) with a zinc coating to eliminate that horrible black dusk
hawk pads????
Cross-drilled is "okay" - I run them myself.
Just understand that you're trading subtle performance and longevity for the cool factor if you really, really beat on them. But for most of us with DD's with intermittent abuses, they hold up just as well as a stocker would.The zink coating is to prevent the rotor from rusting (aesthetics) but will worn off of the pad path quickly. Semi-metallic pads tend to dust more but offer better braking response than a ceramic (which was specifically designed to reduce dust, but at a cost of some stopping power - especially when cold).
Any semi-metallic name-brand pad would be fine, but many people really enjoy the Hawks and notice a definite stopping power increase with those pads alone vs OEM.
There is no wrong answer per se - just want you want to do with the car (I made a few assumptions in my first post). but generally, drilled zinc-coated rotors with semi-metallic "performance" pads and a flushed and properly bled braking system will give you excellent performance while providing the Cool Look of a high-end setup.
Hope this helps.
