i see drilled and slotted brake rotors advertised for the x-type. does anyone have any experience with these? what are the advanteges/disadvanteges? i would think that crud and rust (even though they are advertised as zinc plated) would eventually build up in the slots/holes and accelerate wear but i really don't know...

 

No Crud in my slots/holes
Found them to be a great mod.

 

do your pads wear about the same? any difference in performance?

 

I have the EBC Sport Slotted and Dimpled (not drilled) gold anodizedwith Akebono Euro pads on all four corners..Like Buck said, the best mod you can treat your X to..Wear is 10 times better and virtually dust free..braking action is as good and I think better than stock equip.

 

Which sets are you looking at? The ones on ebay are a bit different than the kits everyone has on here. If you can afford it I'd get the ebc products and if not let us know what happens with the other kits...I'm ready for some different brake parts as my rims get dirty way too quick...

 

I got my d/srotorsfrom R1 concepts, been on the cat for a year and through a winter - no problems yet

 

I bought a set of Brembro drilled and slotted rotors on ebay a few years ago for my Acura and they worked fine, no excessive wear and certainly no problems with the finish or collecting crud. I would think they work fine

 

That's good to hear humy, I was looking at buying from them some day in the future! How is the brake dust on them?

 

here's the ones i'm lookin at:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...65587&rd=1

 

Holy crap of 1600+items they've never had a - feedback! That is freaking impressive! R1 concepts kit is the same price and humy has had his for a year...at least you have feedback on those kits, that's the only problem with ordering from that guy is that you never know what you are going to get later on down the road. I wish that ebay would allow people that have had products for a while or on down the road could come back and rate the product they are selling if they were a seller that was selling the same thing, for instance mydepot...

 

i think r1 concepts kit is semi metallic padstho. i kinda like ceramic pads...

 

See if they could upgrade to ceramic...ceramics should be more expensive, wonder why there kit with ceramics aren't?

 

Pads have been in nearly 2 years of heavy driving and look as good as new.Theylast longer than ordinary pads from what I researched.
Regarding the difference in performance the EBCs stop the car very quickly....the std ones barely stopped the car at all!!
Dealer pads=DUST and LOTS of it
EBC Ceramics = Hardly any dust....what there is wipes off easily...will never use anything else on any car I buy in the future especially as they cost less than the standard sh*te pads.

 

buck i totally agree regarding ceramic. for years i stayed away from them because i thought they'd wear the rotors to fast. what a stupid mistake. couple of years ago began using ceramic on the wife's yukon with *dramatic* increase in wear and like you say no dust whatsoever. i used to have to do pads + rotors every 10-15k miles and now it's more than 30k miles on the same ceramic pads with plenty of life to go. plus wear is much more even - no scoring in the rotors that i experienced with the standard pads...i just wasn't sure what the rotor slots and holes would do to the wear....maybe actually increase wear due to lower temperature due to cooling effects. i guess from what you are all saying crud doesn't accumulate there...

another stupid question - can the slotted/drilled rotorsbe turned down like standard rotors to resurface?

 

Nope..not to my knowledge...But the should last a lot longer though..

 

And shoot if you buy the cheapo one's off of ebay and they last your only out 220 or 250 shipped for the whole set of brakes...

 

I wouldnt risk turning down the slotted/dimpled discs either as it would probably affect the edges of the slots and.or dimples and that would affect the pads.
With there being no metallic particles in the pads I would guess the discs would wear more uniformly too.

 

the brake dust is average to borderline bad with the R1 concepts set. also the brake pads did not fit well in the calipers (I did the install myself, in my garage) - btw, remember the passenger side piston goes in counter-clockwise[sm=headbang.gif], what idiot thought of that

I would just go with their d/s rotors and get ceramic pads from some where else. I don't think you need that much stopping power (semi-metallic) on the X-type, I prefer a clean cat over a tired one.