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07-13-2006, 11:48 PM
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Need Some Advice I neeed to change my rotors & brake pads, so wanting to know what
everyone else is running on theirs. Not looking for anything special, just
a high quality set that works well. Maybe post prices & where you purchased.
These are for my LT1 T/A.
everyone else is running on theirs. Not looking for anything special, just
a high quality set that works well. Maybe post prices & where you purchased.
These are for my LT1 T/A.
07-14-2006, 11:16 AM
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Originally Posted by shouldaboughttheZ
IRotors sucks! My front ones are in need of changing already. Were on the car for 6 months, daily driven.
07-14-2006, 11:24 AM
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Originally Posted by 00'WS6Rocket
i bought all my rotor and brake pads from autozone
07-14-2006, 11:25 AM
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well I bought only 2 rotors and I pretty sure that was about 80.00 a piece and the brake pads I bought were the top of the line ceramic and those were about 40.00 for the pair
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07-14-2006, 11:40 AM
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here's a few, not really great quality though. hope to get a new camera first of next week. 
gotta lot of work I want to do to it, but don't know where to start...
gotta lot of work I want to do to it, but don't know where to start...
07-19-2006, 10:13 AM
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hey man whenever you get them let me know i can help with that ..... had to do brakes when i did the rear end swap and its a lot easier than i thought ill be doing it myself from now on..... you ever get the rear main and stuff done ..... oh ive seen the car in person the paint scheme looks better in person .... pictures are hard to do it justice ..... see if i can find someone who has a really nice camera to take a few pics of it if you want man, i know a few photographers on the longview news journel that i could get to do it .... thats who im going to get to take photos of mine in a few weeks when i get my hood on there and get it painted
07-19-2006, 10:14 AM
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A lot of people I know have good success with autozone blank rotors and napa ceramix pads. I ran them for a while and liked the bite and low dust. Not too expensive and usually on hand.
07-19-2006, 10:19 AM
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Originally Posted by Texas_TA
hey man whenever you get them let me know i can help with that ..... had to do brakes when i did the rear end swap and its a lot easier than i thought ill be doing it myself from now on..... you ever get the rear main and stuff done ..... oh ive seen the car in person the paint scheme looks better in person .... pictures are hard to do it justice ..... see if i can find someone who has a really nice camera to take a few pics of it if you want man, i know a few photographers on the longview news journel that i could get to do it .... thats who im going to get to take photos of mine in a few weeks when i get my hood on there and get it painted
that would be cool. I just tried to call you about whether we were still on for this weekend & if you had found out anything.
07-19-2006, 10:28 AM
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I just got some Wagner Thermoquiet pads from O'reilly's for about $120 for both axle sets. They're pretty good so far and pretty low dust after the first 50 or so miles. Also have a lifetime warranty so if you don't run em' down to the rivets you can take em' back to O'reilly's and get a new set.
My rotors amazingly weren't anywhere close to the wear indicator after 73,000, so I can't help you there. I would look on Tirerack.com, they have Brembo blanks for about $60-80 and they sell some others too.
My rotors amazingly weren't anywhere close to the wear indicator after 73,000, so I can't help you there. I would look on Tirerack.com, they have Brembo blanks for about $60-80 and they sell some others too.
07-19-2006, 10:46 AM
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yeah forgot to mention the guy that has the lift is using it currently on one of his dad's cars and it will prolly be there for a while like another 3 weeks so i dont think we have a lift we can use but i have enough jack stands and floor lifts at my place to do it....... another possiblity since i have dremels and stuff we can try the trap door thing .... i am on orders right now till sunday ........ we dont know for sure we might get to go home saturday afternoon if not i should be back around 11AM or so sunday but that enough time i think espcially if we do the trap door thing, when i get around to doing mine its getting the trap door
07-19-2006, 11:05 AM
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Wagner thermoquiets are what i run, the set on mine now has been on for a year or more now and still got lots o life left. I've got alot of experience with these pads and recommend them highly. Brembo cross drilled rotors were my choice and will stay with them unless i go to Baer Eradispeed's.
Gotta give ya props on the paint also...good lookin car.
Gotta give ya props on the paint also...good lookin car.
