Brake rotor change and upgrade

[rob1]

I posted this over at Corral and it seems nobody has slotted rotors or that nobody cares to tell me anything about them if they do. Can you guys help? I am buying a front and rear Cobra brake replacement kit for my 96GT and have a couple of questions. I want to get slotted rotors with the kit but I see rotors that are zinc coated also. Are they any better? I want rotors that I can keep clean and keep the silver like shine on them but also are still good quality brakes. Are they any available or is there a good cleaner that will fairly easily let me keep my rotor clean without taking off the red coating on the calipers? Also, is the zinc coating worth the money? Do most people who have made the switch from stock GT brakes to the Cobra brakes feel a noticeable difference?
Thanks
Rob

 

[road rage]

I've got slotted rotors from powerslot and they stay clean and silver shining. Never use anything to clean your rotors.

 

[GoBabyVroommm]

Just get the cobra brakes in the front. Get your rotors from powerstop/auto speicality. Everything shouldn't be more then $500 dollars. Big brakes is one of the best up grades you can do to the stang.

Leave the back brakes alone. You only use 20% in the back and 80% in the front. Remember you will need a 17 inch wheel but sometimes a 17 inch wheel may not clear it.

 

[KaPPaBaLL]

www.discbrakesrus.com $399 cobra front brake upgrade kit. Cadmium plated is just for rust protection. Up to you.

you don't need slotted rotors. All they will do is eat your pads up.

 

[GoBabyVroommm]

Thanx kappa I was just looking for a site to buy the up grade kit for the car.

 

[KaPPaBaLL]

np

 

[propellerhead]

Check out the Spring 2004 issue of Car and Drivers BOOST magazine. I picked one up at Barnes & Noble last night. There's an article about installing bigger brakes. It states you can actually lengthen your stopping distance. It was something about the factory brakes are balanced between the front and rear to provide maximum braking from the point where you first apply pedal pressure, as you increase pedal pressure, to the point where you actually stop with max pressure. When you put larger brakes, the more effective front brakes hit their peak performance and slow the car down before the rear brakes get there. So, though it feels like the car is stopping better, you end up using mostly your front brakes and not much of the rear. In effect, you decellerate quick initially, but the overall stopping distances are longer.

Reader's Digest version: Original brakes are designed to balance pressure between the front and rear. Upgraded brakes will make the front do all the work.

Find the magazine and read it. I'm sure I did a bad job at paraphrasing it.

 

[rob1]

I have 18 inch wheels. I want the coated rotors and the calipers for the looks more than anything but I want it to work good as well.
Thanks
Rob