SC owners--What brake rotors do you use?

JonT · 03-07-2005, 11:34 AM

Time to replace these along with all the other work I'm doing. I'll be doing 5-6 DE's per year and possibly more track days throughout the summer as well as street driving. Drilled? Slotted? Cryo? OEM? What are the track guys using?

T-Bone911 · 03-07-2005, 11:57 AM

Currently using slotted with hawk hps pads, super blue and on florida august track days can get 25-30 minutes of a 30 minute session.

Andras Nagy · 03:30 AM

For street driving (and DE events), you can safely, and economically, use the OEM rotors. I have used these for over 22 years, at mostly DE events, and they've always stopped me within 200 yards of the turn-in. What more can you ask? At $39 a rotor, why would you spend more for marginally better rotors?

Now if you were running GranAm or ALMS, perhaps better rotors would be "better", but then you'd want something "really" good.

Todd Simpson · 03-07-2005, 12:54 PM

OEM Carrera rotors are your best bet.

You'll need the front calipers too. Stock master cylinder and your rear rotors and calipers remain stock.

You'll be moving from a 20mm rotor to a 24 mm thick rotor. That combined with the cool kit you're adding and frequent bleeding and you have the best bang for the buck upgrade in brakes.

Rick Lee · Rick Lee's Garage

I use the ATE vented discs. Something like $55-$60 each. Then PF-97 pads. I rebuilt my calipers 3 wks. ago, so my brakes totally rock now.

nostatic · nostatic's Garage

I use ATE with the orbital grooves up front, oem in the back. The car will see probably 12-15 track days this year.

htron435 · htron435's Garage

I will second Andras and Tod. Stock rotors are sufficient for DE. Spend your money on better pads (hawk HP+ or Blue) and fluids (ATE or Motul). And maybe upgrade to the Carrera calipers and stock carrera rotors. Although slotted rotors aren't bad, I don't believe they are at all necessary on an SC. I would avoid drilled rotors for track duty.

KobaltBlau · 03-07-2005, 01:57 PM

I have zimmerman 20mm SC rotors, not slotted or drilled. They work quite well for DEs, as long as the brakes are getting sufficient air. I believe that the SC club racers must run these rotors, not Carrera rotors, and they are far faster than me. While the carrera rotors are a nice upgrade (with front calipers), I think that the first step is to cool the brakes well; if this works with the SC rotors (Which it should, given sufficient cooling air), then you have saved a chunk of unsprung weight.

juanbenae · juanbenae's Garage

Quote:

Originally posted by nostatic
I use ATE with the orbital grooves up front

me too.

speeder · speeder's Garage

Don't have my car anymore, but I ran the ATE "Powerdiscs", (the ones w/ the orbital cuts in it), and Mintex street compound pads w/ ATE Super Blue and my car got nothing but compliments from instructors at track events in the braking dept.

If you need to change them anyways, I'd recommend those. They were not very expensive, as I recall.

SCOTITUDE · 10:22 PM

I've tried the cross drilled, slotted and orbitals. A total waste of money. Cracked the drilled ones halfway thru DE season. The slotted made no difference at all.The cryo stuff is just snakeoil IMHO I went back to the stock vented rotor. I ran ATE blue and Pagid orange with all the rotors and the stock ones performed the best , cost considerably less and still pull my eyes out of my sockets on the track. Plus I get a good 2-3 DE seasons out of a pair of rotors. Spend your money elsewhere.
Scott