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Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 10:19 pm 
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Brembos... Or drive less hard. :wink:
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 10:21 pm 
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Brembos... Or drive less hard. :wink:


lol. apart from brakes worth more than the car. i don't drive rediculously hard though. not like there are hill runs around here or anything

 

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Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 10:32 pm 
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Brembos... Or drive less hard. :wink:


lol. apart from brakes worth more than the car. i don't drive rediculously hard though. not like there are hill runs around here or anything


You must be driving hard. I have gone through one pair of front slotted DBA rotors in 2 years. That's using Bendix Ultimate which eat at the discs a fair bit. Time to ease into the braking mate...

 

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 Post subject: Re: Burnt rotors, so which pads now???
Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 10:34 pm 
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well front discs are 3 years old. rear discs about 12 months. pads are about 6 months old. discs were machined and slides grease. but now i have really bad front and rear brake shudder

 

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 Post subject: Re: Burnt rotors, so which pads now???
Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 10:35 pm 
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Ive been running QFM A1RM pads in my EL XR and the HPX pads in my daily, havent managed to get fade yet and I've tried a few times down Mt Macedon. Im running a few other little bits and pieces, but for a daily driven car with stock calipers they are a pretty good upgrade. I used to order them from GSL rallysport, but Brakewest in Sunshine stock them now so makes it a bit easier

I previously ran Bendix Ultimates and they dust like anything and eat rotors. Still stopped good though, got fade once racing someone down Mt Alexander and once on GOR.

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 Post subject: Re: Burnt rotors, so which pads now???
Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 10:42 pm 
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well front discs are 3 years old. rear discs about 12 months. pads are about 6 months old. discs were machined and slides grease. but now i have really bad front and rear brake shudder


What discs? Solid, slotted, RDA, DBA?
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 10:49 pm 
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I previously ran Bendix Ultimates and they dust like anything and eat rotors. Still stopped good though, got fade once racing someone dawn Mt Alexander and once on GOR.


+1...f**k dust everywhere.

 

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Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 11:51 pm 
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well front discs are 3 years old. rear discs about 12 months. pads are about 6 months old. discs were machined and slides grease. but now i have really bad front and rear brake shudder


What discs? Solid, slotted, RDA, DBA?


Bursons standard replacements

 

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 Post subject: Re: Burnt rotors, so which pads now???
Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 11:56 pm 
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Maybe thats your problem.

Cheap s**t discs that have been machined too much... Past their useful life.

As for the rear... I dunno anyone who has shuddering rears that hasn't abused their car in certain ways. :wink:
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Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 8:32 am 
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um yeh. the rears. um it just happened? :lol:

 

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Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 9:53 am 
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Any tired Ferrodo pads????

 

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Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 6:15 pm 
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The only time I had problems with rotors warping was when I tried a set of cheap chinese-made ones. They warped in less than a month. I have had DBA Street Series slotted rotors on my EF XR6 for over five years (80,000kms), do some really hard braking now and then, and am only now getting some unevenness in low speed braking. Can't even notice it above 20km/h. Have run EBC Redstuff and Greenstuff on them (OK at first, then pretty average), and have been on QFM HPX (awesome pads!) since October. Your problem must be in the quality of the rotors themselves.

 

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i do run Bursons pads and Bursons disc all round lol. didn't have much cash. needed new brakes.

do you reckon i should get slotted DBA rotors and Bendix Heavy Duty pads?

 

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The DBA Street Series seem to be excellent quality and reasonably priced. The slots will give you a bit better stopping in the wet or when the pads are really hot, so probably cheap insurance. The "kangaroo paw" thing might not do much, but at least you know they are really DBAs. For a track day car, you would probably want to go to two-piece rotors.

I haven't tried Bendix Heavy Duty. My AU had new Bendix General CTs when I bought it; they were so bad they were scary. I hear Ultimates stop well but are dusty. I'm really happy with the QFM HPX: very little dust, easy on rotors, great stopping power, good initial bite, and not too much money (compared to EBC).

 

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The DBA Street Series seem to be excellent quality and reasonably priced. The slots will give you a bit better stopping in the wet or when the pads are really hot, so probably cheap insurance. The "kangaroo paw" thing might not do much, but at least you know they are really DBAs. For a track day car, you would probably want to go to two-piece rotors.

I haven't tried Bendix Heavy Duty. My AU had new Bendix General CTs when I bought it; they were so bad they were scary. I hear Ultimates stop well but are dusty. I'm really happy with the QFM HPX: very little dust, easy on rotors, great stopping power, good initial bite, and not too much money (compared to EBC).


whats QFM HPX?

 

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