Jeepjeepster wrote:
Where do you get your rotors sleeve84028? Some people say napa is the best, are they all the same? Im still on stock everything and it going good.
I got my rotors from Napa. I don't know if they are all made by the same company though, Napa just had the best price in my area.
kickit_in4wheel wrote:
My question is this: If slotted and cross-drilled rotors offer no benefits, than why do the high performance brake companies make them? Baer, Brembo, Wilwood, check their websites, they all make rotors with these features. Wilwood had something interesting to say about cross drilling...
This my friend is all about marketing. Almost all performance gains, I mean major gains, in stopping power come from increasing the size of the rotor.
kickit_in4wheel wrote:
However, the same Wilwood discusses rotors with vanes on another page, and said that vanes DO help with cooling. Cross drilled, slotted, vaned, whatever, these are original equipment on some very nice and very functional sports cars. Not just a weekend racer or bracket race dragster, cars that road race or participate in endurance racing. I agree that the recent "bling" factor types have embraced the large, drilled and slotted rotors as glamorous go fast pieces, but surely they must offer some performance benefits that off-roaders (especially vehicles that do double duty as the off-road and daily driver) can benefit from.
The high end cars / ultra performance cars that come with Drilled / Slotted rotor are usually equiped with gigantic rotors from the factory. I mean like 14" rotors. The larger mass of these rotors allows them to have these 'special' brake features. I don't want to sound like I am totally against Slots / or Drill holes in rotors, it is just easy to get confused with all of the marketing out there saying you will see a xx% improvement in stopping distance.
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