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Old Oct 23, 2003 | 05:17 PM
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Any one ever drill there own rotors?????
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Old Oct 24, 2003 | 12:10 AM
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Brakes are one of those things you dont want to skimp on or mess with - I would not recommend it. Leave it to the experts to drill and slot them.
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Old Oct 24, 2003 | 12:16 AM
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Brakes are one of those things you dont want to skimp on or mess with - I would not recommend it. Leave it to the experts to drill and slot them.
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Old Oct 24, 2003 | 12:42 AM
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Forum member Wes Green did, I have seen them, nice job! Took him a looooong time though. :sleep: :lol: :cheers:
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Old Oct 24, 2003 | 12:34 PM
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Forum member Wes Green did, I have seen them, nice job! Took him a looooong time though. :sleep: :lol: :cheers:
Id love to see the pics
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Old Oct 24, 2003 | 05:12 PM
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Forum member Wes Green did, I have seen them, nice job! Took him a looooong time though. :sleep: :lol: :cheers: Id love to see the pics
From his web site. http://wgreen.homestead.com


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Old Oct 24, 2003 | 05:43 PM
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Those look great!!!
Im tempted to try this , any tips
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Ask Larry for his input.
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Brakes are one of those things you dont want to skimp on or mess with - I would not recommend it. Leave it to the experts to drill and slot them.
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Old Oct 24, 2003 | 07:04 PM
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I love that car! :cheers: :thumbs:
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Old Oct 24, 2003 | 07:17 PM
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I couldn't pass up the opportunity to plug our DBA rotors. Forum special pricing $499 per set.

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Old Oct 24, 2003 | 10:18 PM
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Gotta agree with the other posts, leave the drilling to the experts. It's a lot of work to do it right, hole size, spacing etc. Done wrong, toss the rotor in the trash. :nonod:
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Old Oct 25, 2003 | 01:21 AM
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check e bay theres a nice set of four drilled and sloted for 260$
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Old Oct 25, 2003 | 02:05 PM
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I personally wouldnt do that to mine,,, but if you know what your doing... then... Go for it...
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Old Oct 25, 2003 | 02:52 PM
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Assuming you're only wanting to do this for looks, and not for performance reasons (you'll only degrade the rotors), I'd still just get a set. You'll have to do the pattern just right, plus go through who knows how many drill bits, then worry about stress relieving everything to keep it from cracking, ....

I'm sure you can do it, but I don't think it'd be worth the time and effort.

Have a good one,
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Old Nov 3, 2003 | 12:34 PM
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The hardest part is setting out the pattern. I used Auotcad to set out a pattern that did not drill through any of the cooling fins on the inside of the rotors. I had a used up rear rotor to practice on before I started on mine. The rotors are real soft and drill very easily. I used one drill bit to do all 4 plus one practice. Total time to lay out, drill and stress relieve was probably around 8 hours not including taking the rotors off the car
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Old Nov 3, 2003 | 01:01 PM
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I personally wouldnt do that to mine,,, but if you know what your doing... then... Go for it...
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Old Nov 10, 2003 | 02:20 PM
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actually i would never to this to my own car, However my roomate is a ricer, so i wanted to buy some and sell them to him and his ricer freinds for a measly 300% incriease
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