[s-cars] Seeking "Todays" Big Brake Recommendations

[TM]

Have you investigated the possibility of pad material transfer to the
rotors?

This was mentioned (the warping, that is) with 993tt rotors- turned out
to be
pad transfer.

I really beat on my brakes at LRP and had no problems w/ warping- Hawk
HPS,
modified OEM rotors.

Taka

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Subject: Re: [s-cars] Seeking "Todays" Big Brake Recommendations


S4audinut at aol.com wrote:
> You can get best prices for calipers, backets, and rotors at Crecent
> city motors in New Orleans. Prices low enough that Igor got his BIRA
> s8 rotor big reds for about 1200$. I dont know much else but that I
> sent him to Crescent and he said the stuff saved him abt 350-400$

Mmm, Rod, the kit that I've put together for my car has absolutely
nothing to do with BIRA :) It is a product of my crawling around the
car's supension with a Mitutoyo digital caliper and then sourcing the
RS2 brackets from Russia, the 928gts calipers from Crescent, pads from
Darin, SS lines from Earl's Indy and the rotors from you-know-who :)

OTOH, now that you've mentioned it, I feel that a Porsche (or Colman)
ring + a custom Aluminium hat may be a better solution. And that's where
I will be going once I kill the S8 rotors. The problem is I have somehow
managed to warp them to the point that the wheel wobbles with light
braking. The wobbling kcompletely stops once you increase the foot
pressure. Oh, and they do stop the car like a sumbitch. To compare them
with the G60 is like my new cable internet with the dialup that I used
to have. Like they say, there is no going back once uyou've experienced
it.

I am puzzled as to why did the rotors warp. They are the proper German
made Zimmermanns (thx again, BTW!), I had them slotted and I had them I
think properly bedded in for ~200 miles or so. The only other thing that
I've done to them was painting the hub with a grey 1700F barbeque grill
paint for rust prevention.

Igor
'97 UrS6 mit the BBB (Budget Big Blacks)
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