zmespeed

ok, i do drive very spirited quite often and probably drive it in track like conditions. but the inside of my rotors wear much faster than the out side. ive gotten them hot enough to glow and smoke, so i know they've seen more heat than there suppose to but the inside of the brake is where the most wear is . the outside close to perfict. this is happeing to all my brakes but the rear did this plus cracked in two places fronts just have micro cracks.

brakes are standard none brembo 2003 with the stoptech stage 2 upgrade with hawk hps pads or something close to that name


close up of in side rotor

zmespeed

1 in side rotor close up....2 in side rotor...3 out side pad 4...inside pad ...5 inside pad

zmespeed

first inside pad ....2, out side rotor...3 in side pad on rotor....4 out side rotor close up

zmespeed

these are pix of the micro cracks on the front... i know i need brembo but they wont fit in on my 17inch rim so its huge $$ to get them ...rubber 1k rim 2k brembo 1.5k total 4.5k

Chef-J

iTrader: (58)

how......damm that's bad man...

davidv

iTrader: (2)

Here is a technical explanation: http://www.connact.com/~kgross/FAQ/brakepad.html

zmespeed

that was quite helpfull but the z's front calipers are located in front of the axle does this just mean the car toes in under brakeing

"Differences in wear between the inner and outer pads arise for two different reasons. The first is a car's tendency to "toe out" under breaking, that is, for the front half of a tire to move outward, the rear half inward. Because of this tendency, we compensate by giving cars a little toe-in in their alignment. This toeing places a little more load on the inner pad in a caliper mounted behind the axle."

JETPILOT

iTrader: (51)

Single piston floating calipers will wear like that. There is only one piston on the inside. You are way overheating those pads!

Your going to get brake failure and kill yourself on the street or maybe someone else. Maybe even someone you know. The street isn't the place for that.

ZTEALTH

throw those rotors out or if they are turnable, have them turned (to me they look dead) or buy new rotors. buy new pads. save the racing for the track.

zmespeed

i dont race on the street.. but some times in very lowy populationed area's ill drive the crap out of the car for one minute or two. you can feel the stage of fade the brakes are in so i wont let them get to that point. i dont go 150 and hit the brakes its just lots of 70 to 40 braking.

i think im just going to turn them.

terrasmak

iTrader: (8)

I believe you only need 5 or 10mm spacers to use your factory 17's with brembo's. You need bigger rotors for what your doing.

zmespeed

will the stock brembo's be big enough?

Tac-M

iTrader: (17)

i would get this

http://bigbrakeparts.net/catalog/pro...s.php?id=10900

http://bigbrakeparts.net/catalog/pro...s.php?id=12522

http://bigbrakeparts.net/catalog/pro...ls.php?id=8872

http://bigbrakeparts.net/catalog/pro...ls.php?id=5077

http://bigbrakeparts.net/catalog/pro...ls.php?id=5259

http://bigbrakeparts.net/catalog/pro...ls.php?id=2265

Z04

iTrader: (15)

he says he has a stoptech stage 2, so he already should have lines and fluid. thing is, i have non-brembos and i drive pretty hard and never had rotors/brakes look like that.

Tac-M

iTrader: (17)

oops, i didn't see that ... SLOW down homie !!!

zmespeed

lol thats exaclty the problem... i need to not slow down so much !

Tac-M

iTrader: (17)

in that case

a. you are braking wrong , ie riding the brakes to much

b. you need a bbk

Z04

iTrader: (15)

it's early, not enough coffee yet but nice list of parts though, that would be a decent set up

Tac-M

iTrader: (17)

thanks !

i am looking at that for my track days... only with race pads... and dbas @ all 4

zmespeed

no im not riding the brakes. i also healtoe every time i slow down using the engine to help.