What pads to go with Brembo rotor?

What pads to go with Brembo rotor?

Hello~

it's almost time for me to replace my rotor, and i'm planning to get brembo cross and drilled rotor.
i'm wondering that which brand of brake pads i should use to go with new rotor?? or should i just use the stock pads??

Thanks in advance!!

Ming

i second that...OEM is the way to go with these.

Third that. I had the same setup!

OEM or ceramic.

Why is everyone saying OEM? Do Hawk or EBC Greenstuff eat the aftermarket rotors or something? Please explain.

sounds like most of ppl prefer oem~guess i will go with that too.....ha..

but what's the advantage of oem? and other brand??

thanks for the input agian!!

OEM is guaranteed NOT to chew up your rotors...heh.

loud? that's odd...i dont' think they are...

I got ceramic pads from Pep-Boys with my brembos and no problems,

Just a quick question. Will the rotors for Matrix XRS will fit my car?? Even the rear rotors??

OEM pads, brembo slotted/cross drilled rotors

i guess he was talking about the aftermarket pads~

yeah...i see that NOW

yes i know you do...lol

I have cheap rotors and cheap pads..they work fine..

I have a pair of Brembo rotors (blanks) and a set of Bendix pads waiting to be installed..but I'll probably keep putting it off until I actually need to replace them.

Are those cross/drilled rotors even good to have? I once posted and asked if I should buy these and a lot of people suggested not to even think about buying these.

If they are labelled as Brembo's and are slotted and cross-drilled, they are not 100% original Brembo's, do yourself a favor and contact Brembo directly (http://www.brembo.com) and ask them if they actually slot and cross-drill the rotors. After that, you'll probably be looking for gold/bronzish colored Brembo blanks.

Here, to save some time, here are the brakes for the 1994 Toyota Corolla (my car) on the Brembo website (notice the lack of slots and cross-drilling)

http://www.brembo.com/CatalogoBremb....aspx?idBU=1&idLingua=1&PartNumber=09.5736.10

Most places selling slotted or cross-drilled rotors do it in house to make their brakes more *attractive* or *performance oriented* since most people believe that slotted or cross-drilled brakes will improve their braking (just not the case on a car like the Corolla, unless modified and needs alot of hard or high speed braking). Also, alot of these places cross-drill the brakes by actually just drilling the holes striaght in (not the proper method for having cross-drilled brakes), this leaves imperfections no the edge around the holes, which created an area that causes more heat to build up (more heat = less efficient braking, as we all know, and can lead to premature disc warpage) and can also cause an area of stress that, if great enough, can cause your rotors to actually crack. Well, that is some information for you guys, and before buying those so called Brembo slotted and cross-drilled rotors, do yourself a favor and research them a bit more.

damn ~ that sucks~

what about these on ebay??
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=7953376738&category=33564
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=7954383836&category=33564

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=7953997353&category=33564

Dunno. It might be fake.

Those Slotted/Cross-drilled rotors are probably just Brembo blanks (plain discs) that have been cut inhouse to look like more expensive rotors. Slotted/Cross-drilled rotors for our cars in stock sizes are all show - look at cars that come with slotted/drilled rotors from OEM. Those are "huge" rotors - that big of a rotor can lose some mass and still be effective. Chopping out holes and slotting rotors that are Corolla OEM size is a recipe for poor braking performance or lower life - rotor does not have enough mass (thermal heat sink) to handle normal heat generated by the brakes.

Thank you! I couldn't remember what it was called, and I was too lazy last night to look it up...

migww: For approximately the same price, you can get real, not tampered with Brembo blanks from places like www.coximport.com

In your case, at those price ranges, I would just make sure I get the real thing and not take a chance on Ebay

wow~ this place acutally have lower price!!
i will emailed them about shipping for the parts, because i'm located in Canada~

tahnks for all the help!!!

thanks to everyone ~!!