OK, so I just installed new rotors and read that I need to bed them in properly.

I have read a few different threads on it, but I went with one of the more conservative ones that stoptech also recommends on stock brakes.

10 runs from 60 to ~10mph

let cool (do not let car come to a complete stop with brakes applied)

Another 10 runs from 60 to ~10 mph.

After the 1st 10 runs the rotors were super hot, even a little blue, and I could smell the brakes (which is supposed to be normal).

After the 2nd set, same thing, but not as bad, BUT the paint on my rotors (I painted them red) was bubbling up, and the stickers (NISSAN and 350Z stickers/decals) turned from white to a goldish color.

I am going to guess that they got a bit too hot? Why would this be if I went by the most conservative method? I wanted to make sure to do it right, since I have had a problem with rotors in the past.

 

You did it right. The problem is that the paint on your calipers couldn't take the heat, lol.

 

Dang, thats kind of what I figured, the paint and stickers just couldn't deal with that much heat. NO biggy, I will maybe just touch up the paint later (since you really can't tell it isn't super smooth anyway) and buy new decals. Hopefully my rear rotors and pads last a while, so I don't have to go through that again.

 

Too hot for bedding? Never. The problem is getting the rear brakes hot enough for proper bedding. Very difficult to do.

 

except bedding the rears is far less crucial than the front, since the rear is there for balance, nothing more

you did it correctly...maybe even overkill a bit, but it's correct. Caliper paint, usually, is just not up to the task that high speed repeated brake use can induce....stickers I can tell you most definitely are not, they are a car show type of thing

 

+1...

If you were bedding stoptech rotors, it would be normal to smell and see smoke. This is the residual coating being burnt off.

 

LOL, yeah, I installed a buddy's set of Stop Techs a couple weeks ago (4 wheel 14" BBK) and when we went oput to bed them, they smoked like crazy the first few stops. Was fine after that. +1 on the rears being tough to get to display the "properly bedded" charachteristics, though I didn't have a problem with that on my OEM Brembos with Brembo X-drilled rotors and Project Mu pads... Anyway, calipers like the Brembos and StopTech BBKs are powder coated and take the heat much better than caliper paint.