if you can't afford 2 crazy set ups I'd run the lower end one on the daily and the higher end one on the track.

The heat you generate on the track is gnarly. You will kill your set of pads on 1 track day. 2 at best. Cheap rotors too. If you are cutting rotors... even nice ones... you loose metal density and heat retention ability.


My advice... if you want to go cheap run those napa rotors and some axxis pads or something on the street.

Then pick up a nice set of rotors and pads. I am a fan of DBA myself. I think Centric is garbage. Some folks swear by them. Just my experience hasn't been good. I don't mind them on the rears but front rotors... go big or go home.

Either way... count on killing rotors/pads/tires on track days. They're not cheap.

 

I ran those napa rotors w/ some autozone duralast pads back in the day in my sedan for autocross. The pads had some limited lifetime warrenty on them so i brought it back to them and they gave me another fresh set.

I ran fine, nothing wrong with them.

 

^I love those warranties

 

Ha what was your reason for claiming the warranty? Pads wore away in one day? Defective haha

 

I can only assume that autocross isnt anywhere near as brutal as a track day.

Is your track day this monday? You already have someone riding along with you? or do you want to ride solo?

 

haha pretty much lol.. you make your own stories. "lot of smoke came from my brakes and so i pulled them out and they were near gone." i dunno.. they just gave me a new set no questions asked. lol.

 

I swapped in AZ rotors on my wifes old eclipse. They came with lifetime warranty haha.

 

april 3rd on a wednesday. Does anyone warrant rotors? lol

 

AutoZone


I think you have to pay SLIGHTLY more to have the lifetime warranty if I remember correctly. But I bet most people forget they bought it and/or sell the car before they need news ones. So AZ makes more money selling the warranty and it really never gets used most of the time.

 

YEAH AUTOzone pre-warped rotors. Rotors cracking during a track day= not good.

I think you should rethink this.

 

Why do you want to resurface them? Getting vibrations or want to clean them up from old pad deposits? It's OK to resurface rotors for track just make sure that you don't take out a thick layer of metal. The less is better. But as others said if you can avoid it - don't do it.

 

yup just want to clean em from my old pads.

 

just because you got warped rotors doesnt mean they all are.

 

Always had good experiences with Napa rotors. YMMV tho. Check IWSTI and NASIOC

 

was it just the napa premiums?

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