Brakes

When i spin the wheels by hand (car lifted) i can hear the pads touching the rotors. time for new pads? or is it more serious than that?

Front or rear?

its normal

front...

gotta love the camaro breaks!

its ok though...gonna go with some baer eradi speed rotors, and get some new pads.

anyone have any suggetsion on good pads...little noise/dust/heat...good stopping power? semi-metallica?

Metalica rules, but I wasn't aware that they made a line of performance friction products... :lol:


Some contact noise is normal, but what you may be refering to is related to the caliper slides. The caliper bolt bolts into the silde itself. I believe... Slide it out and clean the walls of the inside of where the bushing goes... Re lube and install. A Really SMALL cyl. hone tool works great for it..

Hawk Pads are good, but the brakes itself on my car are not really that great.. I think I still have air in the lines.. I bought rotors for my Cavalier, when I had it, and it was the best $$$ I've ever spent as far as brakes..

haha...i ment metallic...but f yea, metallica rules!

btw...beyer...i sent you a pm.

The softer the material, the better stopping...but then more dust usually. For good bang for the buck pads, check out Performance Friction. Cheap, and they'll knock out your front teeth when stopping

I heard its not good to change rotors and pads at the same time cause you have to bed the rotors and pads. fact/myth?

You just don't want to switch pads on the same rotors.

Check out the C5 conversions before you dump so much cash into Baer.

i am not changing calipers...only rotors...correct me if i am wrong...but i thougth the c5 conversion were bigger rotors and calipers?

You can use the stock calipers, but you'll be able to run the 13" C5 rotors. I've seen some very nice C5 rotors for much less than Baers.

You'll have cooler brake, more friction surface, better stopping power, the ability to easily upgrade your brakes further, very good choices of less expensive vented rotors all for little more and possibly less $ (if you shop around).

The brackets w/G-stop rotors can be had for $530. Eradispeed front rotors alone cost ~$500 for the stock diameter.

Later if you want to upgrade calipers, they're IIRC around $89/ea for Z06 at SDPC.

yeah, LG sells a bracket for LS1 cars only that will allow you to either use ls1 calipers and C5 rotors, or a full on C5 kit. it's in a weird location though, it looks kinda goofy. i like bob's style bracket better, they just look better. but if you want to go the extreme cheap route, check out lg's webpage, under ls1 camaro/ta, brakes, and check out the bracket.

the rub is normal...from what i heard from an engineer is they are made that way to "warm the pad". whatever that means...i just think it's tolerances in the caliper/rotor, or there not being any. but everyone i know has it, and it's not a problem

are the C5 rotors cross drilled?

The ones in the LG kit are. Cross drilled is all bling only. It'll do nothing for you except create stress points and reduce mass which isn't what you want to do with rotors.

i know...but i like the way they look...

i know...but i like the way they look...
Even when they look like this after 4K miles? :)

http://www.ws6.com/cryo.htm

agreed...i have heard significant complaints about cross drilled rotors. but...why do the higher class cars (z06, porche, ferrari, lambo, etc.) come with cross drilled rotors. Also, the new baer rotors come with a 2 year warrenty...

I read an article where a Porche engineer stated that they started running crossdrilled because people thought they needed it especially with the price of the car. So basically, they run them to shut customer's up that wanted the bling.

what about powerslotted rotors?

All gimicks

slots are good for removing glaze off the pads...that's it. if you want bling, get slotted and have them coated or dipped. the zinc or powder will remain in the slots and look cool...until you hit the brakes any way. but it's cool bling for car shows and stuff to see red, green, or whatever color slots in the brake rotors.

drilled rotors suck, but i will admit that i noticed a slight improvement IN WET ONLY braking with sloted.

i am not changing calipers...only rotors...correct me if i am wrong...but i thougth the c5 conversion were bigger rotors and calipers?

I did that on my last car and I went through brake pads like underwear..

Tapered pad wear, it was worn to a V type. I beat the F*K out of these brakes!! The rotors NEVER warped!! :cool: I'd say if you're going to better rotors, go with a semi metallic or almost full metallic pad. Depends too on what the rotors call for..

BTW......Kewl! ;) No leaf Clover!... S&M rules!! :metal:

what about powerslotted rotors?

Those beez the ones! I had them on my last ride..(Cavalier...yeah I know..completely different..) They were F*Kn Great!!! They were of course my first set of rotors... I LOVED em'.... Just make sure they are broken in correctly. NO heavy stops over 60-80 for the first 400 miles......