I like. OEM warping.
oh man, this makes me remember this one lady that came in for service on her Odyssey. She wanted to make a warranty claim because she was hearing squealing coming from the tires as she drove down the street. The car sounded horrible coming in. They got it on the lift, and the damn woman was driving with no brake pads, it was just the metal backing of the pad against the rotor. It dug the shit out of the rotors. I have never seen that before. it was very bad. Boy was she pissed when she had to buy new rotors and pads. Dumb broad.
i have brembo blanks with oem pads it feels ok i guess, but i wish i had gotten better rotors and pads now since im gonna be tracking soon, good brake fluid is also a big factor, it really helped my braking a lot!!
Yea it does. I ran Motul Dot 5.1. Good shit!
i’m currently rockin autozone rotors at all four corners. the ones up front have been on the car since about 3 weeks after i bought the car and that was almost 3 years ago. i’ve replaced the pads a few times but not the rotors, i just put 2 new ones in the rear over the summer. no problems yet. the ones in the front are starting to show signs of old age so to speak. i’m just gonna get some autozone pads at all 4 corners and 2 front rotors just to hold me over til i get to real brake upgrades. but i’ll say, my car still stops really well even with 3yr old rotors up front. i’m just lookin for somethin that bites harder to give me that extra margin of safety. more than likely goin with the ever popular acura legend brake upgrade. might go about it a little different than others though. go with stock (legend sized stock) rotors at all 4 corners but goin with NSX calipers at all 4 corners. not sure on what i want to do yet though.
Fresh fluid is more important than what fluid you run - on the street.
None of us will ever boil fresh DOT 3 on the street.
My last setup was brembo’s crossdrilled and slotted on all four corners. This time I would only get brembo’s for the front and oem type for the rear. The rear doesn’t do enough to warrant the extra cost imo.
Also for the warping statement. I believe that the warping comes from driving your car and ur rotors and pads get hot. Then people usually stop, put their parking brake on, which then clamps on the rotor causing the metals to assimilate on eachother. The bonded metals form high and low spots which causes the “warping.” So if you do hard braking or long trips, don’t put ur parking brake on, just leave it in gear and park on a flat street. Makes sense to me, and I never used the parking brake on my last setup and got about 25K miles with no “warping” at all along with two seasons of autocrossing. I’m sure I would of gotten alot more mileage if the car wasn’t stolen.
I put on a new driver rear caliper (Nissin, rebuilt by Fenco), lubed the slide pins in the rear, installed all new Akebono ProACT CERAMIC pads in the back without the shims, and the new Autozone Rotors. However now there is a mild-medium scraping when I apply the brakes. Is this because I am running ceramic pads? I am really hoping this will go away once the new rotors and pads see some more braking. Otherwise I might have to get OEM pads and see these ceramic Akebono pads go to waste.
There definitely shouldn’t be any scraping… Not sure what exactly would cause that.
I’m now running Brembro rotors on the front and Duralast rotors on the rear with Akebono ProACT Ceramic all around… The brakes are incredibly smooth and my car no longer shakes when I apply the brakes. The brakes have been perfectly silent as well. My theory that my car was shaking because of the rear rotors proved to be correct!