have about 105,000 on my 05 ss/tc. like everyone else, my first set of rotors warped in no time. i got the acdelco slotted/drilled rotors as replacements, and now they're warped as hell too.

i had been thinking that i'd do the kangaroo paw disc brakes australia slotted rotors, but not sure how much luck people have been having with them. today i saw that brembo makes a vented (but not drilled slotted) replacement for the front, so thats on the list now too. anybody have any experience with either?

 

powerslot are good rotors, along with hawk pads. i ordered the r1concept drilled and slotted rotors with hawk pads. They have them for $400 shipped, everyone i talked to loves them

 

so you are the one who got the rare 05 t/c......

 

Brembo and DBA("kangaroo paw australian brakes) both make very nice rotors, you really cant go wrong with either.

 

Back in the day of good ole asbestos brake pads, brake manufactures used very little "metallic" in the material. Now with the organic material, which does not work nearly as well as asbestos, they have to add a lot of metal or carbon to the pads which is extremely hard on the rotors. These pads are running at a higher temperature causing rotors to warp.

Dimitri Manesis

 

i like my rotoras.

 

Thats actually a little backwards I believe....it was the increased load and heat that FWD induces on brake pads that led manufacturers to start adding more metallic friction elements because the asbestos couldnt handle the heat, however the newer NAO compounds have a courser grain structure than absestos based pads did and this leads to (imo) a reduction in how "clean" the pads keep the disc surface(high end ceramic based compounds tend to eliminate this), a far bigger problem is that so many people use the brake pedal like an on/off switch and sit at stops with the brakes applied after heavy braking, leading to uneven material transfer, its this buildup that almost every non corrosion related brake pulsation is caused by. Its virtually impossible(unless you drive like a complete tool) to warp a rotor enough to cause a pulsation, I would say that over 99% of the brakes I service have pulsation due to excessive rotor thickness variation, not "warped" rotors. And of the very few warped rotors its almost always easy to find someway in which they were serviced improperly(improper wheel torque, dirty hub face, etc..)