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Old 06-01-2006, 07:48 AM
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Default lets talk Brakes!!!

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the last month or two, my brakes have gotten progressively worse, to the point now, where i am afraid to brake as it might shudder my wheels off. When i bought my car about 8 months ago, the guys i bought it from made a deal to fix the brakes before i took the car.

i now know that they must have just turned the rotors and reseated the pads, because the problem i had when i drove the car in the first place is back with a terrible vengance. Last week i replaced the rears with some zimmerman x-drilled and Mintex red-box pads, and the fronts are coming up now.

I have been looking around for a decent setup to put in... Supposedely Zimmerman does not have a x-drilled for the front, ECS tuning's rotor setup is f'n expensive, and so i decided to go with the Stoptech option

For 140 each side in the front, they had some x-drilled rotors for the fronts. the problem is that they do not offer a good pad for these brakes, and they only have pads for the rear. What do you guys suggest for a good pad that will take some medium to agressive breaking from time to time on the street?

any of you guys running these brakes?? what do you think?
Old 06-01-2006, 07:58 AM
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...that the ECS rotors are killer and worth the dough if you can swing it. I have these with PBR ceramic pads, and my car stops in a hurry, unlike when I bought it, when it resembled an overloaded Lincoln Mark III. <img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/84266/lincoln.jpg">
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Default don't believe what u here ....

Zimmerman makes plain and x drilled rotors for both pre(97-99)

http://www.stopshopanddrive.com/epcvsoapimc.epc?cookieID=1TE0QBOVP1TE0QBUJB&amp;dr illid=8&amp;subcatid=801030@@Front+Discs+%26+Drums &amp;clientid=stopshopanddrive.com

and post(00-03)

http://www.stopshopanddrive.com/epcvsoapimc.epc?cookieID=1TE0QAW941TE0QB23O&amp;dr illid=8&amp;subcatid=801030@@Front+Discs+%26+Drums &amp;clientid=stopshopanddrive.com


.... sorry for the loooooong links
Old 06-01-2006, 01:37 PM
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Take a look at audipages for PaulW's setup.
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