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Old Jul 12, 2005 | 05:11 PM
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Originally Posted by robvuk
Looks great! Probably fine for normal street driving. It's the wet and track driving I would be concerned about. Have you driven agressively in the rain yet? or on a track?
Don't track the car - if I did I wouldn't have the blingy drilled rotors (maybe slotted, but not drilled).

I've driven the car in the rain, but not very aggressively. (Read about it here) In addition to that very heavy rain the other day, I've driven in quite a lot of light/moderate rain since I've changed the rotors (after all, I live in FL!) but I generally take it fairly easy while driving in the rain. I'll have to try some aggressive braking on some vacant pavement next time it rains.

My car is a GT car for hwy/'round town drivin'/cruisin'. I have stopped aggressively on dry pavement in traffic, and have had no problems with the rear end doing anything strange. I really don't think that the increased torque arm of moving the caliper out a bit makes much of a difference in rear wheel braking force. I'm sure there is some very slight increase in rear braking force for the same pedal pressure, but as I said before, I think the braking on the 'Vette is biased heavily to the front wheels, so I don't think the change I've made will mess up the handling during hard braking or screw up the ABS.

If I were going to track the car, I'd be putting a Big Brake Kit from Wilwood, Brembo, StopTech, or Callaway on the car. All these kits have rotors bigger than stock and probably of a slightly different ratio of front/rear braking power than stock. Butt.....I don't think the ABS, TCS, or AH will have a problem with a very slightly different bias.

Bob

BTW, I changed my rotors purely for the bling factor, mainly to make the rear look better, and I do like the cross drilled/slotted look for the street!
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