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u can have bigger better brakes on the front, but obviously at some point the car would do an endo!

My thoughts on the matter after having finished a sensible $$$ upgrade to my car. (in case someone out there is interested)

I have aftermarket front rotors on my R32, (330 x 32mm) and brake balance is fine. So dont be concerned with brake bias.

I have a small problem with locking rears at the track, but that has more to do with the pad compound not coming up to temp as quick as the fronts.

One thing ive noticed with my slotted discs, is that the slot does not go to the very outer edge of the rotor, so when the slots fill with pad compound, and due to inertia heads to the outer edge, the pad dust has nowhere to go and begins to accumulate their.

After a short period of time a groove is now being worn into the discs about 7mm from the outer edge.

No big deal and doesnt effect performance, but ideally if i had to buy again i would be trying to find rotors with slots to the outer edge.

Ive been told metallurgically you need much higher quality materials to be able to do this and still avoid stress fractures and cracks propagating from the outer edge of the rotor.

Maybe because my rotors arent that high a quality they are unable to do this.

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how much for slotted standared sized r33 gtst rotors front and rear? when will this be done? i am in need of some verrrry urgent because my rear ones i had for my car were buggered without us even being able to see it so i need to get new ones, i thought might as well get new all around

i asked autobarn for a price they havent gotten back to me

so please

URGENT! ehhehe

Just a FYI for the n00bs like me...

My local "Better Brakes" mechanics (do my whole families braking needs) said it would take between 1-1.5hrs to fit 4 new rotors at a cost of $65/hr labour.

So about $100 and they can be fitted (about 1/3rd of what i thought it would cost).

well i spoke to one of my mechanics he is getting me the rear 4000 series gold dba rotors

he said u cant get rear slotted only rotors for skylines yet only fronts in the 4000 series

and he said that for the 5000 series u actually need to buy new calipers

As I said in the first post I'll give it a couple of weeks...

As posted on 11/4/03...

Originally posted by red900ss

I'll tally the results and call them up next week. :P

It is now next week so take a pill :)

Originally posted by T0nyGTSt

Can you move the old fronts to the back?

My back ones look weedy.

T.

Front rotors won't fit on back.

Oh, and I'll have to withdraw from this deal too :) I measured my discs last night and they're only worn half a millimetre. Obviously been replaced at some point.

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