Anyone use napa rotors for a track day?
03-19-2013, 11:37 AM
#16
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.
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.
03-19-2013, 11:57 AM
#17
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 ran fine, nothing wrong with them.
03-19-2013, 12:29 PM
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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?
Is your track day this monday? You already have someone riding along with you? or do you want to ride solo?
03-19-2013, 01:56 PM
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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.
03-19-2013, 02:20 PM
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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.
03-19-2013, 02:22 PM
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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.
