At ~33,000 miles, my stock rotors are starting to make stopping a little bit of a shaken choir. I'd say by the spring time I need some replacements for all
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Anybody running EBay rotors on their 370z?
At ~33,000 miles, my stock rotors are starting to make stopping a little bit of a shaken choir. I'd say by the spring time I need some replacements for all 4 wheels.
Stock rotors are not cheap for these cars, and aftermarket Stillen and other brands are also pretty high in price. This led me to EBay, where a 10 star seller has an entire kit of either slotted or drilled rotors with ceramic pads for ~$170 to ~$250 for all four wheels. I'd probably just toss the brake pads and go with some street proven Hawks or another name brand pads. So what about the rotors? Anyone try em? Do they fit sport version 370z? |
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You can get the front and rear blank rotors for about $370 and they are OE quality. Perfect if you just want a replacement for a street driven car.
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Do not buy Ebay junk. You get what you pay for and when it comes to brakes, you better buy quality. The Ebay junk is always some cheap made in China crap. Avoid it at all costs.
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I once upon-a-time bought drilled rotors on EBay for a Mazda rx7. Granted it was not a daily driver like my Z, but they were a good deal and lasted until after I sold the car. I'm sure they may have been Chinese or whatever but I liked them enough with the Hawk HP Plus pads to recommend to others.
Now that I half answered my own question... Anyone experiance eBay rotors for their Z? |
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With eBay rotors you are taking a gamble. My guess is no one here has run eBay rotors on their Z. Why buy a $30k+ car and cheap out on something as important as the braking system? At the very least you should make sure that you are getting OE quality replacements.
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yea...centric blanks on tirerack.com are only 98bucks/rotor for the front and 68bucks/rotor for the rear. i would NOT trust my life to ebay rotors. they make work, but there are some things you just dont cheap out on
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You can get factory rotors cut, but they need to basically be brand new. But picking up the factory rotors will also cost you and arm and a leg. Quality castings, rotor material, and the source of everything plays a huge role in what you get, and as others have stated, you're playing with brakes.. what stops your car.
Also just slamming a drill into a rotor is not the only thing that goes into these. I'll speak of STILLEN rotors as I obviously have intimate knowledge, but the steps we go through add cost to the final product, because it's done right. - Quality castings chosen with premium materials, or at times we have our own castings made if we feel nothing on the market will be good enough. - CAD-designed slot and drilled positioning, to ensure proper vane drilling, as well as precise and planned slots/holes to maximize pad wear (uneven hole patterns will leave huge high/low spots on pads.. all patterns are NOT the same). - Special techniques and tooling required to radius chamfer our cross-drilled holes to minimize stress cracks, as well as ramp out our slots to eliminate pad buildup. Literally takes special proprietary bits to achieve these. - Stripping and zinc plating the final drilled/slotted/J-Hook rotors, ensuring all areas of non-contact with the pad have maximum resistance to rusting, etc. While we might be at a small premium for what we're providing, I can ensure you we do everything we can to produce a superior product, and keep the costs at a minimum. And there are a LOT in this industry that are doing anything they can to achieve just a price point.. Just things to consider.. and sharing my knowledge seeing our brake department in action.. |
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