~50% daily and they got a workout with a 8 mile of stretch of twisties. bone stock brakes except for the pads - never had any concerns with them on the street. i didnt feel like i gave up anything over stock pads. i loved them - the harder i pushed them, the better.
Exact same way on the PowerStop C8 Corvette rear rotors!Like @KrackaC8 said, I just put on the Powerstop Z26 brake set with new pads and rotors. I mainly did it for looks if I'm dealing totally transparent. Obviously super early but I like the look a lot.
One thing I thought was interesting is that I noticed about 1/2" on every rotor isn't making contact with the new pads. Just measured and the contact area of the new rotors is indeed 1/2" bigger than OEM, meaning the pads don't make contact with the entire rotor.
Researched this in the last couple of months, as I was under the impression that slotted (of whatever variation) was preferred due to drilled rotors cracking. It is true that drilled are much more prone to cracking, but once you get into high-tier rotors it's not as much of a problem due to different (better) metal and manufacturing processes (heat treatment during mfg, etc...). Fortunately most brake rotors come from a handful of places, so the casting process is somewhat limited, but the material spec, machining, manufacturing, quality and inspection processes/control can be vastly different. My go-to is there's a cost for parts, and if something that shouldn't be cheap is cheap, or if it's significantly cheaper than the industry standard, there's a reason it's cheap. The flip-side of that is just because it's expensive doesn't mean it's good.Just FYI, modern common knowledge for track driving is to not run drilled rotors due to the tendency of them cracking at the holes like so:
It's best just to get vented rotors, slotted if you so desire.
Yeah. A lot of people just run blanks or slotted at all the HPDEs I go to. Quite a few run the cheapest shit they can find and say they have been happy with that. If you are tracking, the rotors, pads, fluid, tries, etc... are consumables that disappear very very fast. I've ran through 250$ pads in 2 weekends, and the shitty rotors from z1 in 1 day. Just got to experiment to find what I like.
Is that torque seal paint on the studs/nuts?
Their 2 piece rotors?
Not sure about online retailers and bargain rotors, but you can get a full set of OEM rotors from Nissan (not including tax or shipping):
no their one piece rotors.
Much cheaper just to rock auto that.
How good are the rockauto nismo front/rear rotors? I'm going to need rotors soon
