Reply With QuoteYes, those are the ceramic pads discussed recently but they are typically cheaper here
Originally Posted by Jehu
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Time for rotors
These guys will sell me four of these vented,slotted Brembo rotors for $350.00 I had thought of upgrading the calipers and thus resizing rotors but too many other financial and time considerations require i act now and get a set of rotors on. The shudder under braking is as bad as i want it to get. The reason i consider them is their shop is a half hour drive away from me and i can buy them online in NH and pay no sales Tax.
are these
the Ceramic pads discussed recently?
Last edited by Jehu; 11-30-2006 at 10:28 PM.
1995 540i Manual build 1/95
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Yes, those are the ceramic pads discussed recently but they are typically cheaper here
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Save your money
Buy the OEM rotors ( Brembo, ATE, cheapo Chinese) and pick up the better pads.
You'll never realize the rotor differance unless you tear up the track or are in police chases racing from Bris to Bris.
save your money to cover your seats in plastic & buy more Barry Manilow CDs.
Last edited by Blitzkrieg Bob; 12-01-2006 at 12:44 AM.
Vee ave vays of dealing vid your kind...........
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Why are you thinking about slotted roters? Bling factor or the heat dissipaton BS? Bling is really the only justification for slotted roters.
Here is a thread with a lot of roter discussion from last spring. I think it has information in it that may be helpful to you.
http://www.bimmer.info/forum/showthread.php?t=20831
Dinan chip, Bilstein sports w H&R, RD sways, RD strut brace, 750 bushings, Zimmermans/MetalMasters, O.E. M Pars, Eisenmann muffler
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I run akebono euro pads. They are great. very little dust. Just get plain rotors. I had brembo rotors once and some shop installed cheap pads to use with them and it screwed upt the rotors. You have to be careful of the type of pads to use with x-drilled rotors.
95 M-sport SOLDnow NSX
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I don't need to get them slotted.I wasn't thinking of drilled.I guess i buy the idea of the slots allowing gas escape and scraping you a fresh pad surface every time you hit the brakes.. Wears the pads faster but i looked at mine with 20,000 miles on them today and they have a ton of meat left and the rotors are unslotted so even if i get just 6 months out of pads with slotted rotors but am getting a safer brake i have yet to see the true downside but am open and looking.
1995 540i Manual build 1/95
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As I recall you were worried about ominous engine noises. Brakes could be redundant.
What happened with the noise?
"The gas pedal wouldn't go to the floor if it weren't meant to be there"
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Well i still hear it when i pull in.I drove it a few hundred miles today.hard,fast Highway driving almost non stop from about 11AM.I need to drive it.I had no choice today and i may need it tomorrow. There is a shop not that far from me I'm considering bringing it in for a checkup. I suppose with no basis for it ,i am expecting the noise is not anything that will result in many thousands in repairs.I will get it in to a qualified shop as soon as i can get an appointment but the fact that the Indy shop who installed the alternator and did an oil change on Wednesday had to have heard what i hear and didn't say anything like;"Hey,Chris ,your engine is hooped and is ready to throw a piston thru the head if you don't get 'er done asap" leads me to assume he knows what it is and if it were serious he'd have said something.I did mention it to him and mentioned i thought it was from using thinner oil as i don't recall having heard it when i bought the car ,before i did the first change.
Here's a question. What is 'Knock"? Could this be engine knock? I use 93 octane gas, stick to major brands like Exxon/Mobile,Sunoco,etc. but they all have 10% Ethanol. Anyway, i appreciate your assistance and will let you know what i find out.
I don't know if you heard THIS or if hearing it weather you can make out ,near the end when i aim the camera at the back end of the valve cover where it sounds like the tapping originates if that says anything to you.It didn't to others,the condensor mic being inadequate.Something says lifter tap to me but i don't know why.
Last edited by Jehu; 12-01-2006 at 08:09 PM.
1995 540i Manual build 1/95
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I must have been checked out when you discussed the omnious engine noise. What did it sound like?
Dinan chip, Bilstein sports w H&R, RD sways, RD strut brace, 750 bushings, Zimmermans/MetalMasters, O.E. M Pars, Eisenmann muffler
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