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Old Oct 11, 2011 | 04:30 PM
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OK, ive searched their site plenty of times, and i see people with them

The drilled and slotted for our balts, are the rear rotors same size as the fronts because i cant find any fronts on their website
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Old Oct 11, 2011 | 04:32 PM
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ya i was wonderin this 2 >.<
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Old Oct 11, 2011 | 04:33 PM
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Originally Posted by steven2008ss
OK, ive searched their site plenty of times, and i see people with them

The drilled and slotted for our balts, are the rear rotors same size as the fronts because i cant find any fronts on their website
I dont know off the top of my head..but give them a call they are friendly and helpful
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Old Oct 11, 2011 | 04:44 PM
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now that i think about it... i dont think they are the same size, cuzza the brembos in the front
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Old Oct 11, 2011 | 04:46 PM
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Not the same size...good thing I took this random pic when I first got them



One thing, in this pic I had two fronts with the veins running the same way, R1 sent me another front, no questions asked when I raised the issue to them
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Old Oct 11, 2011 | 06:23 PM
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i think they discontinued our rotors -___-
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Old Oct 11, 2011 | 06:30 PM
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well i called them, they dont have it on the website, you gotta call, 335 for front and rears, thats not bad at all
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Old Oct 11, 2011 | 06:35 PM
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Originally Posted by steven2008ss
well i called them, they dont have it on the website, you gotta call, 335 for front and rears, thats not bad at all

Of course not. why woud they put them in the website. People may buy them if they do that.
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Old Oct 11, 2011 | 06:50 PM
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lol i know right,they said they did it because people get the models mixed up
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Old Oct 12, 2011 | 10:01 AM
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When I ordered them I just PM's R1Concepts on here, setup the order, payed via PayPal and they were shipped out within 48 hours or so .
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Old Oct 12, 2011 | 10:16 AM
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It would probably be better if you put this thread under their section of the supporting vendors forum. Also you'd probably get ahold of them a lot faster if you called or PM'd them.
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Old Oct 12, 2011 | 10:17 AM
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Personally I think thats a bit expensive for the drilled and slotted rotors. These rotors were my first mod to my car and I wish I wouldn't have gotten them. They perform worse then stock and they are terrible in the rain IMO. The only good thing I got out of them was the appearence.
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Old Oct 12, 2011 | 10:20 AM
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Drilled and slotted are doing nothing for you. The drilled holes just crack like playing connect the dots if you heat cycle them severely. And the slots are pretty useless too.
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Old Oct 12, 2011 | 10:23 AM
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I didn't get them for performance (I guess I should have stated that lol) I got them for the looks. But I didn't think they would perform as shitty as they do. And so far nothing has cracked and Ive had them on for about 15k miles. They are a little warped but nothing that cant be fixed. I'm probably gonna get them turned this winter.
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Old Oct 12, 2011 | 10:54 AM
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Originally Posted by AcesNEights
I didn't get them for performance (I guess I should have stated that lol) I got them for the looks. But I didn't think they would perform as shitty as they do. And so far nothing has cracked and Ive had them on for about 15k miles. They are a little warped but nothing that cant be fixed. I'm probably gonna get them turned this winter.
Ahh yes. Add another reason to not get drilled or slotted. Most shops will not turn them because there's a good chance it will break the bit. It's possible, but it must be done very slowly, and for drilled, you're supposed to ream the holes. No one's going to do that for the measly cost of a rotor turn job.
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Old Oct 12, 2011 | 10:57 AM
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Im having my uncle do it at work, hes a mechanic for Dominion so I dont think hes too worried bout it. So well see what happens when we go to do this lol

Worse comes to worse I keep my stock rotors on after winter...
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Old Oct 12, 2011 | 11:27 AM
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Strange you're having issues, mine have gone through torrential downpours, winter, etc. and not a single problem with braking. Suppose one question, what pads are you running? The HPS seem to come up to temp quicker than stock and I have no issues with sluffing the water off the rotors, but once the stock pads are up to temp (which in winter took longer than the HPS imo) they sluff the water off quicker than the HPS and stop much harder. Summer driving, stock pads stop harder hands down, but I find no difference over stock rotors with the R1s, so far so good .
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Old Oct 13, 2011 | 10:02 PM
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I was considering plain R1 Concepts with Hawk PCs, but I think I'm just gonna keep my stock rotors and get HPS's
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Old Oct 14, 2011 | 12:07 AM
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I was considering plain R1 Concepts with Hawk PCs, but I think I'm just gonna keep my stock rotors and get HPS's
If you have the money go stock ferodos. I have the HPS for a couple weeks now. I understand why when ppl say they're not as good as stocks. For daily use the HPS is okay. I do track my car here and there and I'm going to get the stocks after i burn this set of HPS lol
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Old Oct 14, 2011 | 04:36 PM
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I believe the stocks burn through your rotors though. True of false?
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Old Oct 14, 2011 | 06:09 PM
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I believe the stocks burn through your rotors though. True of false?
stock pads wont burn stock rotors? Maybe the R1 concept but i'm not too sure.
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Old Oct 17, 2011 | 04:35 PM
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Originally Posted by steven2008ss
OK, ive searched their site plenty of times, and i see people with them

The drilled and slotted for our balts, are the rear rotors same size as the fronts because i cant find any fronts on their website
We do have them, just not listed on our site yet. Just pm me here and I will take care of you. No, the rear rotors are not the same size as the fronts.

Originally Posted by MastaShaKe_88
ya i was wonderin this 2 >.<
pm me, thanks.

Originally Posted by Permafried-
When I ordered them I just PM's R1Concepts on here, setup the order, payed via PayPal and they were shipped out within 48 hours or so .
Thanks for the chime in! Glad everything worked out.

Originally Posted by vahdyx
I believe the stocks burn through your rotors though. True of false?
The Stock pads are highly aggressive pads. Good thing about them is the braking power... that's about it. Aggressive pads have harder compound, which at times can give you more noise, dust, and shorten life expectancy. Hawk pads are lesser dust and lesser noise then the stocks but in return, you lose a bit of braking power.

Rotors can only make only about 10%-15% difference of the braking power, the rest is the pads you are going to use.

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