What to buy for ufo brakes???

[Chris Semple - Force 5 Automotive]

----Kneale wrote---------
> I think you can get remanufactured rotors through Carlsen Audi for about
> half the price of new.  Either way, it's a lot cheaper than $1k-1200 for
> the switch to "normal" rotors that don't work as well.  The warpage
> apparently depends upon your braking practices, and one thing that helps
> avoid it is not sitting with your foot on the brake when the
> rotors are hot.


Too high a number to convert to G60's, should be half that, with new
brgs/rotors. But you are going to a slightly smaller braking system with the
G60s. If Tim's got enough meat left on the rotors, I recall seeing a spot
that would turn them, somewhere on the West coast.

-Cheers
Chris Semple
Concord NH
'87 4000q
   '83 TQC
      '93 E350 Club
         '92 Gti 8v


> At 08:20 AM 09/18/2000 -0700, Tim Sidders wrote:
> I know this topic has been beat to death, but I still don't know the
> answer....I have a 91 200 tq20v  that I just bought and it is in need of
> new rotors(ufo's). My question is, am I better off financially
> to buy the factory discs $300/ea or upgrade to the standard rotors. Which
> I'm also in the dark about, who sells them and what is the cost to
> upgrade....Are they better performing brakes?  Has the factory improved
the UFO's so they do
> not warp as much.   Please help!!!!