You don't have to get the rotors red to bed in pads!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Like someone else said, your pedal should NEVER go near the floor. NEVER. You should be worried about that.

Please take your car to someone that knows what they're doing, you're going to kill yourself or someone else if you keep trying to do things like sand your rotors and get them "red" when you bed in pads.

You need to get new rotors, good pads (I'd recommend Hawk Plus for the street, not HPS), flush the brake system (I use the Valvoline Syntec fluid). And hope you haven't screwed up the pistons. Wouldn't hurt to rebuild the calipers.

Soon.

 

I got them red in a previous attempt to bed the pads. Problem is, I was doing it on glazed rotors.

My most recent attempt (after my backyard resurfacing of the rotors) generated smoke, but no glowing. I think it's as good as it will get until I get new rotors.

Again with the floor thing - I can get the pedal to the floor with a REALLY high leg effort. It's not easy. Don't think the pedal is soft and just floats to the floor. I'm saying I'm generating a LOT of brake pressure. I bet you can get your pedal to the floor, too. You might need both legs, but I bet you a dollar you can do it. There's no problem, other than I need higher-than-normal brake pressure to stop the car because the friction coefficient between the pads and rotors is sub-par.

The vibration I had has subsided, which is good.