magnum rotors
I bought a set of Magnum cross drilled rotors for the front of my 88 Lx. installing them was easy and they worked fine for 40 miles or so ,but now i feel a bit of pulsating !
what did i do wrong ?
what is the break-in procedure ?
i looked on thier website but no help there,plus no instructions with rotors.
new pads also !
Magnum is chinese crap. They sell it out of canada because most of their products wont pass US DOT standards. There is also the lawsuit avoidance thing...
88 LX-i coupe auto (241K DD), 88 LX-i coupe 5-speed, 89 SE-i coupe auto.
CARDONE SUCKS.Originally Posted by stat1K
The rotor is probably warped, lack of ability to tolerate heat. Replace it, or live wit it. It happened to me with a set of Discount Advance Auto rotors except mine were under warranty and swapped them out.
Phil
yep happend to me with brand new autozone ones.. i lived with it for 20k miles then sold the car
1988 Honda Accord LX-i Coupe 123k miles.
well i guess i will give them a few more miles and see what happens. i still have the old rotors,i can always put em back on.
if u decide to get new ones i recommend brembo blanks . there only around $30 a piece as well and they are good enough to be used on alot of race cars and etc
1988 Honda Accord LX-i Coupe 123k miles.
Yeah, you really have to be careful about what parts you are going to buy and where from. China is importing alot and as said earlier ebay is their back door into the USA.
Phil
I just put some NAPA premium blanks on one of my cars. Fantastic rotors for cheap! Around $35/each!
napa > autozone/advanced.shucks/kragen/checker/orileys/what ever other ones there are lol
1988 Honda Accord LX-i Coupe 123k miles.
I'm still running the Advance auto rotors bought in 2005 no problems.
Phil
brembo or nothing is my policy with rotors, pbr for pads... never had a single problem, have cross drilled and slotted fronts with pbr semi metallics, and blanks with pbr's on the rear. paid a wopping 150 for all four rotors and pads.
dead white and blue
I'd go that way except that I get hounded by the animal activist for forcing the squirrel under the hood to work harder than he is now to need that much stopping power.
Phil
PBR? Honestly, the only PBR I know of is the beer...
hahahahaha... yeah pbr, check it out... they're an australian company and make awesome stuff, well, at least pads, not sure on their masters or boosters, it's hard to mess up a booster but you never know...
http://www.pbr.com.au/
dead white and blue
PBR? Honestly, the only PBR I know of is the beer...clearly, none of yall are from the south. Professional Bull Riding SON!
oklahoma ain't the south... and i do think of pro bull riding when i see it but that's more of a texan, arizonan thing in me... i have a friend that rides bulls in arizona he's got all kinds of buckles.
dead white and blue
1988 Honda Accord LX-i Coupe 123k miles.
To me, North Carolina is more centrally located than Oklahoma, but OK is more midwest than anything. NC is in the original south.
well i'm not from NC, but i'd say the south to me is like alabama, georgia, sc, etc...
Raleigh doesn't really seem like the south but where i work here in Albemarle, and where i live in Wingate/Monroe, it's definitely the south.
dead white and blue
yeah, most of that PBR stuff isnt to bad eh.
used to use alot of there mc's and caliper rebuild kits in the garage i used to work at.
bendix make a real good semi metalic pad as well, i think they are called metal king. until these fancy new pads came out, they were the standard performance pad
yeah i've seen bendix stuff it's decent. i just am stuck on these pbr's only problem is the damn metallic dust in the rear lol...
dead white and blue
Professional Bull Riding? zZzZzzZZzzZZzZ....
I'm pretty hooked on my Carbotech AX6 pads. So... much... bite!! But they better for $125/axle. Take a sec to warm up though. Gonna get a set for my Accord when she's back on the road.
Last edited by 2ndGenGuy; 09-18-2009 at 12:22 PM.
Re: magnum rotors
i have duralast gold ceramic pads from autozone,they are fine,the rotors just suck ! how the hell can they be warped already ? i guess i'll get em turned...
Maybe the drilling process warped them. I imagine that drilling through them improperly can generate quite a bit of heat... Starting with cheap, thin blanks, then drilling holes in them probably doesn't do them any good.
My drilled Brembo OEM rotors on my Accord would boil the fluid just as fast as my old rotors. So I don't really think that holes drilled into any OEM rotors does jack shit to help heat. I think it's more bling than anything (though they do look pretty sweet!).
when i changed out my rotors i went with napa 5.1 dot fluid...its about 18 bucks a liter but its worth it....i never had fade...only thing is that i started to warp them....i cut them up once and now i just ditched the 10 inch rotor and im going with a 11 inch
1989 Honda Accord LX-i
B18c1 swap since 7/2011
175whp and 132tq
Redzone tuned
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