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Front Rotors, which ones for a street/track 74 911

Evening Gents,

Dad's old 74 has asloppy a arm bushing, rear bushings, a sticking rf caliper and the brakes/suspension are in for a rebuild/ update.

Intended use is predomininantly fast street, very occasional track/de usage.
Stock 2.7 CIS, carrera bars, 6 inch Fuchs with 195/55-15 dunlop direzzionales.

Since the car will be corner weighted, i have purchased a set of SC adj spring plates from Chuck.

So, new elephant rubber bushings f/r, ball joints, sport trailing arm inner bushing, Bilstein hd shocks, rebuilt calipers, ss lines, new ft whl brngs & EBC Yellow pads.

My question is which front rotors are the way to go???
I see cheapies for 40 each, Zink plated Zimmerman's for about 48, Drilled zimmermans for about 85, brembos, maybe 130 and who knows what else

I am seriously ignorant of the cost benefit of the available discs. I will likely need rears also, (since one of the fronts is almost undersized and it is likely that dad didn' do the rears either).

Sans advice, i am leaning toward the zimmerman zinc plated units, but i am really open to suggestions/experience - (sometimes a few extra bucks are very well spent).

Thanks,
chris

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Sorry guys, wrong forum

But, that doesn't mean i still don't have a very soft spot in my heart for the old 356's.

I had a ratty, 55 stripped old speedster with c brakes, 8.5 & 10.5 blue streaks and a pumped, (140 horse Lukes & Shoreman) auto x car, lsd 6/41 R&P in the orriginal BBAB speedster box, camber compensator & black paint interior - the Miscreant that had the car before me cut off or threw out anythingthat didn't make it go, (windshield, deck lid hinges), PAINTED IT WITH A HAMMER - a rude car with a piece of 1/4 inch steel strap to uphold the rusted out floor boards. STilll had the speedster drivers's seat, (while the passenger had to make due with a purloined cheapo plastic laundry mat seat, whos legs were arc welded to the floor boards - this guy had class).

This little german beauty almost always took TTOD, did 100 mph in the 1/4, at 7k in 4th and was a balanced, throttle steering kick in the ass to drive at our fast airport auto xes

My first wife grenaded the engine in a dinky, in town auto x and i built a 1500 cc roller cranked VW replacement but it wasn't even close, so, sold it for the only new car i ever bought, a 1.7, 72 914, (i know, not a real porsche, but it grew to a stoked counter weighted 911S braked 175 HP, flared, (ocasionally TTOD) auto x machine.

May apologies for shotguning this antique thread with my rather deviant Porsche beginnings.

With Malice aforethought, I remain,
a serious car guy,
chris

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