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Best price on OEM front rotors?
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<blockquote data-quote="ac427cobra" data-source="post: 5922754" data-attributes="member: 6247"><p>Rob:</p><p></p><p>It's getting harder and harder for me to properly season my rotors because I drive my R less and less on the street. </p><p></p><p>To properly season rotors they need to go through numerous heat cycles during street duty on street pads. This is similar to a heat treating process called "normalizing" that relaxes any stresses that may be in the material. The more heat cycles the better. Sometimes I used to put rotors on my nephew's DD car and let him run them for a month or two for me. </p><p></p><p>Then they are ready to have a pad bedding proceedure. Different manufacturers have different procedures for bedding pads. The instructions should be enclosed with the pads. For example Hawk pads are bedded with your cooling ducts blocked off. Six to eight brake applications (not too close together to avoid overheating) from say 60-20 miles an hour. You don't want to come to a complete stop. Then six to eight from higher speeds in the range of 80-100 mph slowing down to 20 again. This gets a little tricky unless you have some good country roads to work with. </p><p></p><p>Now your seasoned rotors are properly bedded to your race pads. I mark the rotors left and right and I also mark the pads as to exacty where they came out of the car. They are now ready for immediate track duty once you hit the track. </p><p></p><p>Now that I've gone to the 14" Brembo Gran Turismo kit it's much more difficult for me to season rotors. I've found that the PF 01's are much more friendly for my use now as they do not require bedding like the Hawk pads do. They are pretty much ready to rock and roll right out of the box. I'm done with Hawk products now for several reasons. </p><p></p><p>FWIW</p><p></p><p>:thumbsup::coolman::beer:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ac427cobra, post: 5922754, member: 6247"] Rob: It's getting harder and harder for me to properly season my rotors because I drive my R less and less on the street. To properly season rotors they need to go through numerous heat cycles during street duty on street pads. This is similar to a heat treating process called "normalizing" that relaxes any stresses that may be in the material. The more heat cycles the better. Sometimes I used to put rotors on my nephew's DD car and let him run them for a month or two for me. Then they are ready to have a pad bedding proceedure. Different manufacturers have different procedures for bedding pads. The instructions should be enclosed with the pads. For example Hawk pads are bedded with your cooling ducts blocked off. Six to eight brake applications (not too close together to avoid overheating) from say 60-20 miles an hour. You don't want to come to a complete stop. Then six to eight from higher speeds in the range of 80-100 mph slowing down to 20 again. This gets a little tricky unless you have some good country roads to work with. Now your seasoned rotors are properly bedded to your race pads. I mark the rotors left and right and I also mark the pads as to exacty where they came out of the car. They are now ready for immediate track duty once you hit the track. Now that I've gone to the 14" Brembo Gran Turismo kit it's much more difficult for me to season rotors. I've found that the PF 01's are much more friendly for my use now as they do not require bedding like the Hawk pads do. They are pretty much ready to rock and roll right out of the box. I'm done with Hawk products now for several reasons. FWIW :thumbsup::coolman::beer: [/QUOTE]
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