What to buy for ufo brakes???

[Kneale Brownson]

At 01:37 PM 09/18/2000 -0400, Chris Semple - Force 5 Automotive wrote:

>----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!!!!
Guess my memory's goin' bad faster'n I'd realized:  Both numbers--for 
remanned UFO rotors and for conversion to the less effective standard disc 
set-up (that I thought I recalled from previous posters' reports) 
apparently were off.