Has anyone had any trouble with Alcon rotors warping?
06-04-2007, 01:37 PM
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think i might have after this recent pad change im geting vibrations but going into...
shop tomorrow for a couple things and thats one of them. Not sure if its due to my rotors being warped or not but pretty sure it is. My hawk pads that came with the setup when apr was their distributor rode to high and im not happy with their wear on my rotors. I like my current fedoro 2500s much much better
06-04-2007, 01:46 PM
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I ran the DS2500 on the street and then after 2 track days on the DS3000 ...
the things sounded and felt mildly rumbly with mild vibration through the wheel and chassis. Looked at the 3000s and they looked beat but not extremly. I ran the 2500s on the track yesterday and the pads look fine but the rotor vibration is really bad now and there's a nasty radial crack in the passenger side one but luckily it didn't go all the way through. Aren't these things supposed to be fairly warp resistant? I really wasn't even braking that hard.
06-04-2007, 03:17 PM
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sounds like you might have some uneven pad deposition on the rotors.
06-04-2007, 03:55 PM
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I'm running SBS pads and there are some deposits from the race pads that takes
a few days to wear off after switching to the track pads - daily use. I'm all over the brakes at the track and have had no issues.
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06-04-2007, 04:46 PM
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I thought that too but it's been 2 months since the first outing and just seems ...
to be getting worse. Tried switching up pads, rebedding, etc. to no avail. Thought about trying a really agressive pad like a hawk blue to scrape anything embedded off the rotor but alas they're not made for the Alcons.
06-04-2007, 04:49 PM
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I was hoping that was the case but then the rumbling/vibration
would decrease over time instead of increase and there seems to be no easy way to turn the rotors.
06-04-2007, 05:23 PM
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you switched to a less agressive compound. this would make things worse. the
less agressive compound is going to have a hard time getting any depositions left from the DS3000 off, and if anything, the remaining deposits would cause more buildup from the softer less agressive pads.
if you can't find a super agressive compound pad to run to try and "clean" the rotors, i think you should at least go back to the DS3000 pads.
if you can't find a super agressive compound pad to run to try and "clean" the rotors, i think you should at least go back to the DS3000 pads.