Drilled Rotors
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Re: Drilled Rotors (c5chris)
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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Re: Drilled Rotors (NavyC5)
Forum member Wes Green did, I have seen them, nice job! Took him a looooong time though. :sleep: :lol: :cheers:
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Re: Drilled Rotors (Monster231)
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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Re: Drilled Rotors (c5chris)
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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Re: Drilled Rotors (Monster231)
Hi Guys,
I couldn't pass up the opportunity to plug our DBA rotors. Forum special pricing $499 per set.
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From: South of Boston MA
Re: Drilled Rotors (LG Motorsports)
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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Re: Drilled Rotors (Monster231)
I personally wouldnt do that to mine,,, but if you know what your doing... then... Go for it...
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Re: Drilled Rotors (Monster231)
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,
Mike
I'm sure you can do it, but I don't think it'd be worth the time and effort.
Have a good one,
Mike
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Re: Drilled Rotors (VetteDrmr)
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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Re: Drilled Rotors (WRK CAR)
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