new rotors = new pads?
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Yes! You should use old pads with new rotors. I just installed sportbrakes drilled and slotted rotors with my old ceramic pads and the break procedure was flawless. This is some of the information I copied from a link from one of the forum members but I cant remember the link.
The breakin procedure is several stops of increasing severity with a brief cooling period between them. After the last stop, the system should be allowed to cool to ambient temperature. Typically, a series of ten increasingly hard stops from 60mph to 5 mph with normal acceleration in between should get the job done for a high performance street pad. During pad or disc break-in, do not come to a complete stop, so plan where and when you do this procedure with care and concern for yourself and the safety of others. If you come to a complete stop before the break-in process is completed there is the chance for non-uniform pad material transfer or pad imprinting to take place and the results will be what the whole process is trying to avoid. Game over. If you want the entire article I can e-mail it to you. Hope this helps.
The breakin procedure is several stops of increasing severity with a brief cooling period between them. After the last stop, the system should be allowed to cool to ambient temperature. Typically, a series of ten increasingly hard stops from 60mph to 5 mph with normal acceleration in between should get the job done for a high performance street pad. During pad or disc break-in, do not come to a complete stop, so plan where and when you do this procedure with care and concern for yourself and the safety of others. If you come to a complete stop before the break-in process is completed there is the chance for non-uniform pad material transfer or pad imprinting to take place and the results will be what the whole process is trying to avoid. Game over. If you want the entire article I can e-mail it to you. Hope this helps.
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Originally Posted by GOOSE JR.
If you have the OEM pads it's a good idea to go to the ceramic pads. The stock pads throw a lot of residue on the wheels.
When ever some one changes to ceramic pads remeber to clean the rotor from the old pad material, ( brake cleaner - steel wool) and bed or seed the new ceramic pads. ( turnin the rotor is not worth the cost when excelent high quality Raybestos new rotors are only $25 each )
Bedding puts pad material on the rotor. This is one of the important combination that helps the car stop properly.
IMHO I would rather wash the car and wheels more often and have better stoppign abilities with the OEM pads or the PFC-Z compounds pads.
