Durability of Slotted/Cross Drilled Rotors

[Kansei]

I sourced directly from Brembo, but like you said they are likely drilled after casting. Oh well, live and learn.

Brembo is one of the largest OE brake manufacturers in the world...and unless it is for their specific performance brake parts, they are usually just plain old OE spec parts...

not to sound confusing...I just mean they do not make performance upgrades for proteges...but they do make oe rotor replacement "blanks" as tire rack refers to them...I am assuming some sub-contracted company did the cross drilling with a press, and that they are not cast with the holes...

where did you buy them?...if you sourced them directly from Brembo, who knows...OE replacement's for compacts that are cross drilled are usually drilled after casting...its far cheaper...the casting with the holes in process is reserved usually for extremely expensive upgrade kits (like Brembo's F50 upgrade)...If you recieved them from some online store or something, I would bet money they are truely brembo rotors that are just "drilled"...

 

[Installshield 2]

that will not make a huge difference anyway...the only reason it would is if they would then forge the rotor, in which the metal grain would align around the holes...which would be much stronger than forging then just drilling them...but cast in or drilled in will not make a difference to you...our cars are no where near fast enough to put the heat on the rotors that would illustrate which manufacturing process is better...

if you don't ride the brakes on hills or anything, they will be perfectly fine...even then, they would be fine, they would just destroy your pads...

 

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[bigcc63]

So what about ROTORWORKS drilled and slotted rotors.........

 

[Kansei]

our cars are no where near fast enough to put the heat on the rotors that would illustrate which manufacturing process is better...

Especially not my car. 100whp of fine tuned glory (until I dyno my car and it says otherwise).

 

[low_psi]

So what about ROTORWORKS drilled and slotted rotors.........

waste of money and gives worse performance than OEM...

 

[bigcc63]

waste of money and gives worse performance than OEM...

So whats a decent brake upgrade, as far as getting new rotors and pads........

 

[aMaff]

So whats a decent brake upgrade, as far as getting new rotors and pads........

I've got EBC Greenstuff pads and still have stock rotors. I LOVE em, for streetable stopping, they're hard to beat. I just wish they weren't so dusty, but I can get away w/ it with the bronze wheels

 

[low_psi]

Yep, a good street pad like the EBC Green and OEM type rotors is your best bet. Axxis and Hawk also have options I believe.

 

[Kansei]

Yep, a good street pad like the EBC Green and OEM type rotors is your best bet. Axxis and Hawk also have options I believe.

I didn't think HAWK made their race compound pads for the MSP calipers/rotors though. Do they make anything for hte MSP calipers/rotors?

Last I checked an aquaintance I have up near school who has a grand am cup Protege (and is now in a less costly and restrictive league in canada) was taking the hawk pads made for I think the EVO and machining them down to the shape that the MSP needs.

Next time I need brakes I'm doing it right. I have KVR carbon pads with brembo drilled rotors right now. It works fine for my needs but there's better stuff for the same or lower price.

 

[Kansei]

Here's my drilled brembos, they look like pretty decent quality to me, it isn't just a straight drill.

 

[laracroft]

I've got EBC Greenstuff pads and still have stock rotors. I LOVE em, for streetable stopping, they're hard to beat. I just wish they weren't so dusty, but I can get away w/ it with the bronze wheels

And I thought Greenstuff was the best at giving you LESS overall brake dust because of the compound its made of? (boom01)

 

[Puckpimp71]

I like my EBC rotors... Not drilled all the way through, but dimpled. With the traffic/rain we get down here, these things get ABUSED. After about 5000 miles they look just fine.

 

[SergMSP]

I like my EBC rotors... Not drilled all the way through, but dimpled. With the traffic/rain we get down here, these things get ABUSED. After about 5000 miles they look just fine.

i was thinking bout getting the ebc rotors from protegegarage also, any tips, pros or cons?

 

[low_psi]

I didn't think HAWK made their race compound pads for the MSP calipers/rotors though. Do they make anything for hte MSP calipers/rotors?

Hawk makes street pads I believe, but not anything track worthy like the Blue compound. Atleast one MSP owner runs blues for a regular protege without issues, but they are smaller pads and I don't see a reason to go that route when other companies offer track pads.

 

[Kansei]

Hawk makes street pads I believe, but not anything track worthy like the Blue compound. Atleast one MSP owner runs blues for a regular protege without issues, but they are smaller pads and I don't see a reason to go that route when other companies offer track pads.

A guy I know takes ones made for an Evo and has a machine programmed to cut them to the MSP size.. I guess they are big enough in every dimension that you can do that.

 

[low_psi]

Yea, I just meant they don't make a MSP specific pad.

 

[Captain KRM P5]

the EBC ones like the ones we offer are dimpled/drilled, not drilled all the way through as well as slotted. you get the benefit more or less without the breaking.

i was thinking bout getting the ebc rotors from protegegarage also, any tips, pros or cons?

we have sold many sets to msp owners who rave about thier performance. not a single one has warped/cracked on us

 

[SergMSP]

sweeet...im sold