ACLR8

This isn't quite "under the hood" but is somewhat technical

As the thread says, I want to upgrade my rotors and pads. I am not interested in a big brake kit at all.

My question is, what do you technical wizards suggest??

Just slotted rotors, or slotted and cross-drilled?

Which brand??

What coating??

What brake pads for a street driven car that is occassionally auto-Xed (not my daily driver)

What are the pros and cons of different friction coefficients?? Just wear, risk of gettin' to ABS too easily,

All advice is welcome and appreciated

THX in advance

pfb

Brake pad selection if hugely dependent on your application.

For a street driven car, occasional AutoX, no serious track work, I like the Porterfield R4S pads, though even stock pads work pretty well.

For track days, lots of folks have their favorites, but I like the Carbotech Panther plus.

Stock rotors work great. If you want something with some bling-bling that likely doesn't work any better than stock, and perhaps not even as well as stock, get some slotted or drilled rotors. Many, many threads on the subject of pads and rotors, try the search feature for more info...

Mixed reviews on the cyrogenic treatment of the rotors. It seems with our cars, rotors are so inexpensive that it really doesn't pay for the treatment.

Cadmium plating on the rotors will do nothing for performance, but stop the edges from oxidizing and looking rusty.

ACLR8

Thanks for the info

Yeah, I did some searchin'

it just seemed like the info was very spread out

in this thread I was hoping to condense it without

all the big-brake kit fans trying to sway my opinion

And that the stock set-up is nice

I do want something that "looks" a little more performance oriented as far as rotors go.

With that in mind, I assumed I would need more aggressive pads as well

Fed

My car is daily driven, and I autocross it as well. In my opinion the stock setup works great for just autocrossing. There are better pads out there, but remember this. If you go with higher performance pads, in order for them to achieve maximum stopping potential, they need to operate at a certain temperature, ie. be warmed up. For just occasional autocrossing I would stick with the original setup. Now if you want to upgrade the look, try some spugen slotted rotors, and keep the stock pads. The OEM setup on our cars is great out of the box, and the only reason I see for changing it, would be for track usage.

turbo_pwr

moved to s2000 talk from UTH

tkeedy

Is there truth to the theory that slotted rotors grind away at your pads quicker than a standard rotor?

Travis