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Dj-torn · 08-14-2005, 07:20 AM

Saw these rotors while searching for rims, and now it has peaked my interest seeing as how i want the car to STOP not yield.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Toyot...92817222QQrdZ1

Would they work on my 02 Camry LE 15"x5" rim, are they any good, or am i better off purchasing something else?

skewe · 08-14-2005, 07:33 AM

i would get some brembo.
regular brembo does just fine.
about $100 + for cross drilled

would not buy that ebay brand

Super Kaioken · 08-14-2005, 02:21 PM

r1 concepts <~~~ ebay seller sells OEM rotors that are drilled/crossdrilled.

check them out. i think that's where Mikey21 got his.

Dj-torn · 08-14-2005, 02:46 PM

found them.. but got a noob question... doesn't more stopping come from a bigger brake b/c of more surface area making contact w/ brake pad? or am i just making stuff up?

I will buy them if they are garanteed to be better than stock & will improve my stopping distance from 60-0 by at least 5-10ft.

Super Kaioken · 08-14-2005, 02:54 PM

better pads can help you stop faster, but a bigger brake setup would give you a better stopping power...

Dj-torn · 08-14-2005, 03:20 PM

nabit!, gotta get rims if i want bigger brakes... well did Mikey21 get the OEM brakes, if so what does he have to same about them? (assuming you are friends)

Super Kaioken · 08-14-2005, 03:27 PM

haha we don't know each other like that but he says he got the ones that i'm guessing. R1concept sells.

which like i said...OEM brakes but just drilled and crossdrilled

Dj-torn · 08-14-2005, 03:52 PM

just to verify, that i saw what you were talking about;

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...%3A1%3A1v_home

Super Kaioken · 08-14-2005, 04:00 PM

the seller is r1concepts

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Toyot...temZ7991870117

Cyorke · 08-14-2005, 10:28 PM

GOing to larger brakes will help your stopping distance. Jsut going to cross drilled and slotted rotors will not necessarily shorten your stopping distanc. It may help a little. Typically when you go to drilled and slotted rotors you are trying to help with heat dissipation. Heat build up is what causes brake fade. You get the rotors hot which boils the brake fluid which causes the fade. GOing to drilled and slotted rotors will help prevent this on the same level as OEM rotors.

Ranger X · 08-14-2005, 10:34 PM

This is a pretty controversial subject on TN from what I've seen...do a search...a lot of the senior members (or just really knowledgeable members) seem to think that cross drilled and slotted rotors won't do anything in a normal application.

BenG · 08-14-2005, 10:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dj-torn

found them.. but got a noob question... doesn't more stopping come from a bigger brake b/c of more surface area making contact w/ brake pad? or am i just making stuff up?

I will buy them if they are garanteed to be better than stock & will improve my stopping distance from 60-0 by at least 5-10ft.

bigger brakes do give you pads with more surface area, but i read somewhere that while bigger pads do help, the majority of the braking increase is from the distance the caliper is from the centre of wheel rotation. Something about how it's easier to stop a spinning object farther from the rotation center because it's moving slower or soemthing like that. A bigger brake rotor also means you have more mass to dissapate heat with.

Cyorke · 08-14-2005, 11:05 PM

^^^ what both Ranger and Ben said. jsut going to drilled and slotted rotors is not going to have a very big if any affect on your stopping distance. It may to soem extent help with brake fade. The only way to get better stopping is to have more braking surface, ie. you need larger rotors and then larger pads to cover more of the rotor along with this you are going to need larger calipers to hold the larger pads and etc etc. and on and on

chronoti · 08-15-2005, 07:47 AM

sloted doesnt cool. it shaves off a little of the surface each time so fresh new pad is mating with the surface.

a cross drilled stock would work almost the same as a brembo but is more likely to crack. big thing with non brembo rotors they have a tendancy to crack and brembo are warrented against cracking.

Dj-torn · 08-15-2005, 01:19 PM

I love TN, and from what i have learned, in order to acheive the shorter stopping distance and the best bang for my buck, Would be the ROTORA big brake conversion. Unfortunatly at $1,700 + install... is currently far beyong my budget.

Maybe somebody will wreck their Mercedes/Macleran (i forget what the car is called) so that i can see it in a junk yard and steel its brakes.

"Rear brakes
360 mm ceramic discs, four piston callipers plus airbrake
Front brakes
370 mm ceramic discs, eight piston calipers"
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu...magesr&start=1

(not that i know what any of that means, i just know that it stops FAST, from 120mph to 0, in the same distance that it take the average car from 60mph-0)

Thank you to all for teaching me,