Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 08:48:56 -0700
Reply-To: Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
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From: Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
Subject: Re: Notes on new stock sized rotors
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Hey don,
I’m sure the rotors for the van are listed on brake performance website, in plain and drilled.
I have the drilled and slotted ( curved grooves rather than slots).
You know I do a lot of logging road travel, and steep hills. This year, for one reason or another, we haven’t got out yet so I can’t report on brake performance on the 20% hills.
I can only say that during day to day, city and Hwy, I like the brake feel and effect. Not an immediate grab, but a very assured progressive feel.
Yeah I had heard same about the holes... and I thought I’d never have them. But as I said, these were a gift and I swallowed my reservations.
I’ll also re state that II think the trw pads are doing the job.
Cheers
Alistair
> On Jun 24, 2019, at 8:10 AM, Dan N <dn92610@gmail.com> wrote:
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> hi Alistair,
>
> this is good info... I plan to switch front rotors to either slotted ones or cross drilled ones but I can't find the source of suppliers... In general I am happy with OEM since I have modest HP with the 2.1 WBX.. but once in a while I take the Syncro out on a trail or logger road and going very steep down hill.. errr I smell the brake and it's fading a bit though that I use 2st gear going down...
>
> so what do you have - slotted ones or cross drilled ones?
> did you ever try prolonged use of the brakes yet?
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> btw.. I heard that cross drilled ones are not as performant as regular OEM ones, I am not sure it's true or not...
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> thanks
>
> dan
>
>> On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 7:49 AM Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
>> A couple of months ago I popped on new front rotors and pads in my 86 Syncro. I didn’t really need to, the old ones still had some life in them. But I was given a set of grooved and cross drilled rotors, and while I always wanted to get a big brake set up, and I was skeptical of the merits of the grooves and holes :-), I decided to give them a go.
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>> The rotors are made in California by Brake Performance, and had some sort of coating that’s supposed to reduce rusting on the un worn surfaces.
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>> Brake pads are locally sourced, TWR, I just asked Dave at Dave’s Automotive to get me the ones he uses in stock vanagon brakes.
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>> Nothing to mention on install except the direction of the curved grooves on the rotors.
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>> Did a half assed job with the bedding in routine, you know, all to speed then brake, speed brake , repeat...
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>> Oh boy was I worried, the brakes did not work well. Then after a bit they started to bed in. Over the next couple of days they improved.
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>> I can say the combo is really quite good. Very much better than what I had before. Very nice progressive braking action.
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>> I can’t say if that has anything to do with the rotor design, I’ll guess not. It’s probably mostly pads. And I can’t report on any long hot braking action.
>> But the brakes are better than I’ve ever had in this van.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Alistair
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