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Need Help chosing brakes

Postby Ruski » Mon Jul 16, 2007 12:44 am

i need to replace all my rotors and brakes. I bought the hawk hps for rears of a member from here for dirt cheap. Now i have been looking for rotors. take into consideration im a college students during the summer as well..
I have found these brembo slotted for the front
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/99-03-To ... enameZWD1V
and was gonna buy generic for the rear. what do you guys think of that set up? and what kinda pads should i get for the front ? OEM?
Or what about these rotors http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/SR-Brake ... dZViewItem
Or these
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Toyota-S ... ZViewItem#
Or final thought is to get a full brembo slotted rotors http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/BREMBO-B ... dZViewItem
So a little feed back Guys Thanks in advance
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Postby ThatVietGuy » Mon Jul 16, 2007 1:15 am

Brembo blanks, no drill/slots necessary and Hawk HPS are usually good enough.
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Postby SleeperSolara » Tue Jul 17, 2007 5:14 pm

Get either slotted or blanks.
Don't get cross-drilled, i learned the hard way..... cross-drilled = life of rotor down hill.
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Postby Jon11582 » Tue Jul 17, 2007 5:56 pm

SleeperSolara wrote:Get either slotted or blanks.
Don't get cross-drilled, i learned the hard way..... cross-drilled = life of rotor down hill.


Slotted = life of pad downhill.

Get brembo blanks.
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Postby SleeperSolara » Wed Jul 18, 2007 8:11 am

Jon11582 wrote:
SleeperSolara wrote:Get either slotted or blanks.
Don't get cross-drilled, i learned the hard way..... cross-drilled = life of rotor down hill.


Slotted = life of pad downhill.

Get brembo blanks.


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Postby Jon11582 » Wed Jul 18, 2007 8:36 am

I just realized your shopping for rear rotors.

Generic blanks will be fine for the rear. Also the pads on the back rarely need replacing. The rear doesn't do much of the braking.

For the front, if given the choice, I would go OEM pads. I currently have HPS's on the front and they seem fine, but they spit out more dust than I remember the OEM's giving off.
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Postby unbalancedwood » Wed Jul 18, 2007 9:04 am

If you really want slotted for the front, CamryOnBronze is selling some for $110 shipped
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Postby bassthrive » Wed Jul 18, 2007 11:39 am

brembo blanks +3
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Postby JMSinMaryland » Wed Jul 18, 2007 5:00 pm

I know with the blanks they can be machined, I'm guessing with slotted and/or crossdrilled once they're done, they're done??
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Postby Ruski » Wed Jul 18, 2007 5:18 pm

well i just bought CamryOnBronze fronts. i ahve brembo blanks now with oem pads. its not enough for braking support for me.. and they are warped. Ill keep them and get them resurfaced for the future.. But thanks for the comments
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