$teady$upreme

i will get them in OEM size, wondering wat brand should i get?
wat other brands are out there?

AxessAudi-fmr-Bslayr

tell him that bmwslayer sent you, he will hook you up.

Ray Calvo

Bought these figuring the slots would reduce water collection and help wet weatehr braking. Well, slots were so narrow they quickly filled with brake dust and became not much better than OE.

$teady$upreme

wat's the price do u fink he can possibly quote me?

$teady$upreme

so i should get x-drilled??

Totalled SuperChargeA4

where are they made?

brembo are made in italy and mexico, some are cadium dipped some are not (most oe replacement blanks are not)

zimmerman rust really bad on the surface if you run metalic pad (mintex)

if you are not getting them for looks, get vented blanks or slotted, but not xdrilled

Ray Calvo

Have used them on my Porsche. They are better in the rain. Problem is that if you use them for track use, the holes get clogged with dust (generally easy to blow out with a garden hose set on a jet stream position, but you might need to drill the stuff out if you let it go). Should be much less of a problem for street only.

They are also prone to crack from the holes radially outward. Once again, largely noted on cars used on the track.

ordare

Off topic.

$teady$upreme

but want to improve my braking. dat's why i want to buy a set of rotors and pads, but not sure wat brands of pads and rotors should i buy? and i am not going to get blanks, will get either slotted or x-drilled. wat are the differences between the two?

can u advice me?

Totalled SuperChargeA4

x drilled is prone to crack especially if people drilled thru the veins of the vented rotors

xdrilled is for the 80's when the pad making technology isn't upto par and the resin that bond the pad together would give out gas when heated. nowadays, pads are improved and they don't give off gas

xdrilled became less mass, and mass means weaker, hence prone to crack.

you don't see formula 1 using x drilled or slotted do you?

now i cannot explain why porsche still use x drilled, one reason i've heard is their rotors are cast with the holes so it doesn't compromise the structral integrities

btw, stock size rotor won't improve anything, the pads will improve your braking but please beware that your oem pad works from zero degrees up to say 700F but the performance pad works from 300-1000F, meaning your stopping power would be less on the street/freeway/panic stop situation.

since you are running stock size rotor, when your oem pad reached 700F, it will fade, and you'll suck at turn 4 on the track

you might be better off having that set of pads and rotor just for track and regular stuffs for the street

consider getting braided brake lines which will improve the brake "feel" meaning you can better madulate the braking force.

another thing about braking is your tires, that's what actually stops the car (hence threshold braking/abs is better)

all these probably didn't help you pick what you want but at least you get the theory straight.

go for blank or slotted, pads (ebc seems good, who cares about brake dust, that means it's working!!!) , and braided line