Originally posted by mangler:
Here's my costly experience.
Get raybestos rotors. They were actually reboxed brembos here in Canada. On my SE, I have had stock rotors (no warp, but major corrosion), cadmium plated eurorotors (very bad, I'm taking them off today, after they have warped 3 times...)and raybestos. The raybestos are the only ones I will use from now on. With decent torquing, these will not warp on you. Of course, that is on my SE, I am not sure if Brembo makes SVT rotors yet.
Well, here's my .02 on the Raybestos thing. I replaced my front rotors with Raybestos rotors at 42k miles. In short, no warpage problems, but the performance is WAY below the stock SVT rotors. I've had a few times where I've been up to 120MPH or so and had to brake hard and almost killed myself and others because the car just plain wouldn't stop!
I just received my KVR cross-drilled rotors and carbon fiber pads, I'm up in the air on when to install them due to the salty weather. Anyone here been told NOT to use cross-drilled rotors in wintery weather due to rust in the cross-drilled areas? A guy I know told me about this, of course, the day I received them from UPS!
If so, I'm gonna call Joe at SP Motorsports and give him some crap about not mentioning that...
