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Posted: 3/30/2006 9:46:19 AM EDT
[#1]
It is time to pimp z auto.
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Posted: 3/30/2006 9:51:48 AM EDT
[#2]
It's too old for that.  I pimped it about 4 years ago by adding 17" wheels, tires, CAI, sway bars and new brakes. |
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Posted: 3/30/2006 9:55:31 AM EDT
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I quess depending on the size of the crack, I'd probaly drive carefully with a miniature hairline crack. Anything bigger, and I'd leave the car awaiting replacement parts.
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Posted: 3/30/2006 9:59:53 AM EDT
[#4]
bigger than hairline! Crap, I was afraid of this. About a 1" long and a millimeter wide at it's widest point. I never used impact guns when tightening and final torqued with a torque wrench to 90ft/lbs |
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Posted: 3/30/2006 12:42:12 PM EDT
[#5]
i wouldnt drive. imagine shooting a ar with a cracked upper. just my thoughts. brakes are pretty important in my book. seems you always need them when you dont have them. you will have other failures is the rotor lets go. hopefully your new bremebos arent drilled or expect the same. sorry but thats reality.
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Posted: 3/30/2006 12:59:16 PM EDT
[#6]
My opinion, anyone who is willing to pay the extra to buy Brembo should know the answer to this question already before he asked.
Shame, on the timing though. |
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Posted: 3/30/2006 1:13:23 PM EDT
[#7]
actually, the brembo are cheaper than the ones I bought originally. They are listed as OEM replacments and the others are for road racing. Local store also wanted more for a stock oem rotor. go figure. |
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Posted: 3/30/2006 1:52:59 PM EDT
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Who made the original one? is there a warranty?
I'd stay off it. It would suck for it to fail when you really needed it....Would be like shoving a broomhandle into the spokes of a spinning bike tire.... |
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Posted: 3/30/2006 1:58:30 PM EDT
[#9]
power slot I believe but I don't think the warranty would cover it due to age, 4 years |
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Posted: 3/30/2006 3:23:02 PM EDT
[#10]
You must have got a good price on the Brembo, congrats.
Powerslot is usually considered to be pretty good stuff and reasonably priced around $80 a wheel. In fact they claim to be a step up from OE. You may want to try a Raybestos bottom of the line till your Brembo comes in. The average sell price at Advance (Amigo series) is around $40. Tj |
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Posted: 4/5/2006 1:11:37 PM EDT
[#11]
I finally got around to replacing the rotor. It had 2 cracks in it at the 3 and 9
   
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Posted: 4/5/2006 1:41:59 PM EDT
[#12]
Did you get ahold of the manufacturer? Even if they don't want to cough up a refund or anything they should at least know that there may be a problem.
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Posted: 4/5/2006 2:10:28 PM EDT
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Hell, you coulda got another 100,000 miles outa that!
   I bet you replace your tires before the threads are showing!?!?!Travis 
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Posted: 4/5/2006 2:14:39 PM EDT
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The crack is originating from the dimples. I'm getting nervous cause I have 3 more on my car  I put on my summer tires and I didn't see any cracks on the other rotors. |
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Posted: 4/5/2006 2:20:23 PM EDT
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I would think any manufacture would stand behind that regardless of age.
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Posted: 4/5/2006 7:50:59 PM EDT
[#16]
You didn't buy slotted and cross drilled Brembos did you? Cracking tends to propagate from the slots and holes. When I replace my front rotors, I'll be going with Brembo blanks. They don't look as cool as the cross-drilled and slotted sets but for anything but track applications, standard rotors are more practical.
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Posted: 4/5/2006 8:40:46 PM EDT
[#17]
just plain faced rotors. I was trying these because I figured the dimples and slots might be less prone to cracks than the regular drilled stuff. |
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Posted: 4/6/2006 8:23:04 AM EDT
[#18]
Damn that sucks. I always heard they were bad about cracking (cross drilled&slotted) I would feel cheated.
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Posted: 4/6/2006 9:54:40 AM EDT
[#19]
only drilled rotors crack, slotted will not crack.
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Posted: 4/6/2006 12:00:07 PM EDT
[#20]
these are dimpled rotors... |
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Posted: 4/6/2006 12:13:21 PM EDT
[#21]
Yep, dem rotors be f*cked, good thing you checked them when you did.
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