pads/disks for 90

[Larry C Leung]

I guess I neglected to mention that. It's so totally true. I've run
nearly 15 hard seasons of Autocross on my GTi with stock REAR pads and
rotors, and they've only been changed once in 130K miles. AND, I'm a left
foot braker. Fronts, OTOH, well, let's just say, I've gotten real good at
changing them, and I never have had to worry about frozen caliper fixing
bolts. I'm still experimenting with different pads, but even there, stock
rotors do quite well, though cryo treating them may reduce their wear (no
other issues, there though, no warping, cracking or crazing, just wear).

And, our front heavy Audi's aren't significantly different on brake
balance. 

FWIW, the only street car I know that significantly uses it's rear brakes
(to great advantage, BTW) is the Porsche 911 series (all variants), and
perhaps a few other mid-engined exotics. 

LL - NY

On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 17:07:35 -0700 (PDT) Ti Kan <ti at amb.org> writes:
>Larry Leung wrote:
>> I've had less than stellar results with Brembo Rotors (I warped them 
>in
>> spirited street driving and an occasional autocross, and no I don't 
>leave
>> my foot on the brake after a "spirited" drive). I'd go ATE or ATE
>> Powerdisk for the rotors.
>
>Michael Friesen writes:
>> Quick question, what are you using for the rear then?  I found ATE 
>PDiscs
>> for the front, which I plan to get, but I'd like to upgrade the rear 
>at the
>> same time.
>
>The lion's share of braking is done by the fronts, so you're not 
>likely
>to experience any difference with a rear rotor upgrade.  The stock 
>rotors
>are more than adequete.  Just use good quality brake pads.
>
>-Ti
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