Decent rotors?
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Burning Brakes
Joined: Aug 2001
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From: Troy Ohio
Decent rotors?
Some advice.... Ok I need rotors. I dont want to just by the duralast crapola from Autozone. What would be some decent rotors without going way crazy on the price? This car is just for street use with occasional "spirited" driving.
Team Owner
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From: Lacey WA RVN 68-69
NCM Sinkhole Donor
The Raybestos "Professional Grade" is one of the brands we use in our shop. No turning required and haven't seen any cases of these rotors having any excessive runout.
Centric is another decent brand. Also carried by Rockauto.
Le Mans Master
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From: Life is just one big track event. Everything before and after is prep and warm-up and cool-down laps
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St. Jude Donor '12
I'll second the raybestos rotors. The last set of fronts I had to replace after THREE years of heavy road racing use.
Pro
Joined: Feb 2009
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From: charlottesville Virginia
i got ATE slotted rotors from tirerack, the look is very cool and different. I have done a couple track events and the performance is only slightly better than stock (stock size rotors on an 86), very reasonably priced also.
Melting Slicks
Joined: Feb 2005
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From: Bay Shore, NY
I have them on my 85 for 5 years now, excellent quality and very reasonably priced. I got them locally, but RockAuto has them too. I used the same brand on my Cadillac when I did the brakes.
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From: somewhere between heaven and hell WI
I used the coated rotors from NAPA.
I thought they were great. I drive the car hard on the street and I used them for autocrossing with no problems at all. Didnt switch the brakes for the autocrossing, just drove it the way it was on the street and the track.
I thought they were great. I drive the car hard on the street and I used them for autocrossing with no problems at all. Didnt switch the brakes for the autocrossing, just drove it the way it was on the street and the track.