has anyone found a list of aftermarket brake rotors for our cars? my stock ones suck and i'm tired of having to replace warped rotors. i warped another set yesterday.
U can get Powerslot....I got those coming.....Went intown to a Fastlane Motorsports and the they hooked me up 130ish.....U can get those man...Sloted
200+ ALL MOTOR LS VTEC
do they mailorder?
i just put on some EBC sport rotors
they are slotted and dimpled. so far so good, but i havent had them on for 500 miles yet! but the price was right. $50 on www.tirerack.com
brembo makes slotted rotors for our cars as well. i think only the front, though. powerslot makes the rears.
Originally Posted by Justanothermike
my A20 is not SLOW. ur A20 is slow.
I didn't know brembo made rotors for our cars still. that's cool. I don't have rear discs anymore so that doesn't really matter. I had brembo discs on my 81 civics very good brake parts. as a matter of fact it had 83 civic s calipers on my car and they were factory brembo. very rare parts. i sure wish they had kept using brembo instead of Tokico. i will def check into those. while we are on the subject, i had heard that the 89 brakes were different then the earlier brakes. i had found a good set of sedan calipers almost new, but they wouldn't fit on my 86 hatch even though they were 86. i have some 89lxi hatch calipers in my junk and they look the same as my 86. did all the hatches have the bigger calipers? that would follow with honda's tradition of the hatches being the performance cars. that might explain why some of the aftermarket brake parts don't fit. not trying to go off topic or anything.
the '88-'89 lxi/sei had bigger brakes. as far as i know all models '86-'87 were the same.
*edit* wait. i think you might be right. the hatches had the larger brakes through all years? some parts sites list it that way but others don't even bother to list a 3-door designation.
Last edited by Strugglebucket; 08-15-2005 at 03:37 AM.
Originally Posted by Justanothermike
my A20 is not SLOW. ur A20 is slow.
come to think of it i think i replaced one of my calipers with one from an lxi. i know the sedan calipers wouldn't bolt up. that means if you switched the spindles from a hatch to a sedan you could have bigger brakes. does anyone know if 90 accordd rotors will fit? i found the drilled and slotted rotors for a 90
'90 accord rotors will not fit. different bolt pattern, different offset, different diameter.
Originally Posted by Justanothermike
my A20 is not SLOW. ur A20 is slow.
i thought the bolt patern was still 4x100 i know my wheels are from a 90 integra and they bolt right up. i wonder if that one might fit they have the same ones for that year. i had a thought i will look friday at the junkyard i know the early legend was very sim. i wonder if the brakes for the v6 legend might bolt on. wouldn't hurt to check. there are wierd parts interchanges for these cars, for example the 4 wheel disc brake integra from 89 has the same master cyl. as our cars. i checked and the part numbers are the same.
yeah, the 1st gen legends are nice because they're 11" rotors and they have the same offset as the accord. but they still have a different bolt pattern (4x114.5 i think) and even if you redrilled them you'd have to figure out a way to space out the calipers. i'm almost certain that the entire hub from the legend could be swapped though, just not sure if the axle splines are the same.
i'm kind of working on a weird brake setup that would get you 11" rotors fairly easily without having to make custom brackets for the calipers but i won't know for sure until i try it out and i'm lazy so it might be a week or two.
Originally Posted by Justanothermike
my A20 is not SLOW. ur A20 is slow.
that bolt pattern is for 5 lugs, the four lugs should all be 4x100 i'll compare a couple of them and see but when i looked it up on the acura site the odball pattern was listed for the 5 lug
from looking at my acura tech book it looks like the same spindle assembly the caliper brackets might bolt right up.Originally Posted by Strugglebucket
they will, but they're the same exact brackets as the accord. the difference is in the hub
Originally Posted by Justanothermike
my A20 is not SLOW. ur A20 is slow.
darn,i thought it might be in the caliper bracket. have you ever looked at a pic of the accord suspension and the legend suspension from underneath? they're freakin' the same! i'm looking at the two pics side by side and they are identical. i'll bet the hub swaps out. oh yea the 89-90 sedan and coupe rear suspension is also identical to the ones on our cars. i can't believe i haven't noticed this before.
are you sure about the rear suspension? there was talk about that before as an alternative rear disc swap since the se-i is kind of hard to find. but i think the legend was different, like it had a huge trailing arm or something.
Originally Posted by Justanothermike
my A20 is not SLOW. ur A20 is slow.
they look pretty close to me now i'm talking about the sedan and coupe 89-90 it looks the same in the pictures only way to tell is to go to the junkyard. don't want to get too off topic here. i'm def going to look at those front pieces to see if they can be swapped. I would love to have those big disc brakes
it's still on topic, they make slotted rotors for the legend, too
Originally Posted by Justanothermike
my A20 is not SLOW. ur A20 is slow.
i'm probably gonna have to get my rotors either turned or replaced. which is the cheaper alternative in a ballpark estimate? i'm sure i'll have to do the pads as well, but i was just curious about the rotors. i'll more than likely take it in to get it worked on, though i don't relish the idea. if it weren't for the possible rotor problem i'd just go to my dads so we could do the brakes together, he has more experience. also, when you buy replacement rotors do they normally come 2 to a box or do you buy each seperately? thanks for the info fellas, don't think i took this of the topic to much.
rotors turned is probably cheaper. but oem rotors are so cheap its almost better to go new... seriously... ask at like schucks or baxters or autozone. there like 22 a peice! probably 15 to turn them... i would go with new
and they always come 1 rotor to a box. but unless they are slotted they dont have specific left and right part numbers (at least i dont think so, but my EBC's do)
sorry guys,
my other question is; how difficult is it to replace the rotors? there is no how-to on this, i searched. there are listings for putting disc rotors on the back, but not to replace the fronts. that might actually be a good how-to to have up here, just incase somebody needs to look it up. autozone has rotors for like $17 and the pads aren't a bad price either. i've got school starting on the 29th so i'd like to get this done. i'd rather not be driving up to class and my brakes go screwy on the many up and downhill areas of the road i take.
i've had a terrible time with cheap aftermarket rotors. they keep warping. I found the aftermarket good ones at tirerack.com i like the slotted ones but they carry brembo for our cars and they are far better rotors even if they aren't slotted. the slotted ones aren't really designed for high performance driving, more for looks. i used to race with brembo rotors and i can tell you from experience they are good rotors. so i've decided to go back to them. the ones i'm talking about now are from auto zone,they aren't worth a crap, the first time i had to brake hard they warped. if you are going to be going up and down hills i would go with a good performance rotor and quality performance brake pads, they won't warp and the brake pads won't fade all the time.
Last edited by lostforawhile; 08-16-2005 at 06:11 PM.
the hell are you talking about slotted is for looks.
Slotted = vents gas outwards faster
Cross-drilled = lighter rotor
From my understanding of how rotor works, slotted helps prevent a layer of gas building up causing brake fade. It helps vent the gases out of the rotor. Cross drilled is merely a form of lightening the rotor. This is why many F1s have slotted/cross-drilled because it is a great compromise of better braking as well as lighter rotors.
i know that it helps some, i'm talking about a lot of high speed braking, they have a tendency to develop fatigue cracks along th holes and the slots. there is even a warning on tirerack.com about having to inspect them carefully after every race because of this. i have heard of slotted rotors cracking before. anytime there is a pressure ridge in metal i.e. a stressed machined area that has corners, cracks will tend to develop in that area because of pressure ridges in the metal. i'm not posting this to start an arguement or anything just some safety information. QUOTE: IMPORTANT REMINDER: Slotted, drilled or dimpled rotors offered as OEM replacements should not be considered appropriate for high-speed track use.
While grooved, drilled and slotted rotors offer an enhanced appearance and add some resistance to the boundary layer of gasses that can build up between the pad and rotor, they are not designed to withstand the extreme temperatures that are produced on the racetrack. If they are used on the track, it is very important that the rotors be carefully inspected and should not be driven on if even minor signs of deterioration are seen. Note, too, that if any products are used on the track they are not warrantable
Well said lostforawhile. It definitely doesn't apply to our cars since we don't do much highspeed braking (since we can't get up that high loool)
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