i got a heavy package in the mail today...

[Aharami]

Originally posted by: SampSon
Return them and get just slotted rotors.

would have to pay for shipping....so wont really be saving any money there.

Originally posted by: andylawcc
how much you got them OZ's? I reckon it won't be THAT much more than the TE37.

i got them off another guy on vwvortex forums. he used them for a week then sold them cuz he wanted OZ Records and tirerack didnt have them in stock when he ordered the superleggera's. i got them for $1650 w/ Pirelli Pzero Nero M+S tires

 

[Epoman]

So wait a minute, You bought rotors that are Brembo knockoff? someone else drilled them? just because there stock rotors by brembo and someone else drilled them. You will be a fraud you'll be Frontin wit da homies.

 

Complain to them and demand free shipping.
I've done it plenty of times.

 

[blahblah99]

Originally posted by: andylawcc

Originally posted by: blahblah99
Look what came in the mail today for me!

Linky
Linky

turbo KA24DE? ??? oh boy, hope you got LSD.

That's on the list of goodies to come - nismo lsd, yeah baby!

 

[blahblah99]

Originally posted by: Epoman
So wait a minute, You bought rotors that are Brembo knockoff? someone else drilled them? just because there stock rotors by brembo and someone else drilled them. You will be a fraud you'll be Frontin wit da homies.

No, brembo sells STOCK rotors that are undrilled, uncoated, unslotted. You buy them like that and either bring them to a machine shop to get all that done, or buy them from a third-party who gets stock rotors and resell them drilled/coated/slotted.

 

[notfred]

Well, you've got big rotors now, too bad the car's not going to stop much better with the stock calipers.

 

[Amused]

i got a heavy package in the male today...

I fixed your thread title for ya.

 

[Epoman]

Originally posted by: blahblah99

Originally posted by: Epoman
So wait a minute, You bought rotors that are Brembo knockoff? someone else drilled them? just because there stock rotors by brembo and someone else drilled them. You will be a fraud you'll be Frontin wit da homies.

No, brembo sells STOCK rotors that are undrilled, uncoated, unslotted. You buy them like that and either bring them to a machine shop to get all that done, or buy them from a third-party who gets stock rotors and resell them drilled/coated/slotted.

NO, Brembo sells STOCK AND PROFESSIONAL (Drilled, Slotted) HE BOUGHT STOCK and had them drilled.
If you want to be legit BUY THE DRILLED ONES from Brembo. He wants to look cool but does not want to spend the EXTRA Money for the DRILLED BREMBOS. He bought STOCK brembos YES BUT he had a shop drill them NOT BREMBO. He will tells all his "peeps" "Yeah man look at my Brembos they cost me major cheese"

AND don't tell me anyone can drill them just as good as brembo, There the leader of performance brakes and rotors. They use precision machines to drill them not like "Chuy" at the machine shop.

 

[Aharami]

Originally posted by: Epoman

Originally posted by: blahblah99

Originally posted by: Epoman
So wait a minute, You bought rotors that are Brembo knockoff? someone else drilled them? just because there stock rotors by brembo and someone else drilled them. You will be a fraud you'll be Frontin wit da homies.

No, brembo sells STOCK rotors that are undrilled, uncoated, unslotted. You buy them like that and either bring them to a machine shop to get all that done, or buy them from a third-party who gets stock rotors and resell them drilled/coated/slotted.

NO, Brembo sells STOCK AND PROFESSIONAL (Drilled, Slotted) HE BOUGHT STOCK and had them drilled.
If you want to be legit BUY THE DRILLED ONES from Brembo. He wants to look cool but does not want to spend the EXTRA Money for the DRILLED BREMBOS. He bought STOCK brembos YES BUT he had a shop drill them NOT BREMBO. He will tells all his "peeps" "Yeah man look at my Brembos they cost me major cheese"

AND don't tell me anyone can drill them just as good as brembo, There the leader of performance brakes and rotors. They use precision machines to drill them not like "Chuy" at the machine shop.

what the hell you talking about?? did you even read the fsking thread?!? I never bought these rotors thinking that they will be Brembo rotors. If i wanted Brembo rotors only, I'd have bought the Brembo rotors from tirerack.com. but they are too much $$ for me.

I bought these rotors thinking they will be OEM rotors that have been cross-drilled/slotted. But the rotors turning out to be manufactured by Brembo was a pleasant surprise. THATs wht I posted this thread...i was just excited that the rotors are Brembo quality and not OEM quality.

And about

He wants to look cool but does not want to spend the EXTRA Money for the DRILLED BREMBOS. He bought STOCK brembos YES BUT he had a shop drill them NOT BREMBO. He will tells all his "peeps" "Yeah man look at my Brembos they cost me major cheese"

point out where in this thread did i look like im bragging? I'm just happy that the rotors turned out to be better than what i had hoped for. I'm not claiming that ECSTuning can drill rotors as well as brembo can...but if you look in ECSTuning's website, you can see that they do make their own brakes (even 2 piece brakes) and their performance brakes have been proven on the race track over and over again. Also these guys cater solely to the VW and Audi crowd...and have been doing so for a while. SO they must know a thing or 2 about drilling properly. here is a link for your lazy, assuming self
ECSTuning.com

 

[TechnoKid]

Originally posted by: Aharami

Originally posted by: Calin
They are looking great! You can paint them red :laugh:

Calin

you bet your ass i will!!

actually painting the calipers will help keep them rust free
not to mention the 25 extra hp my car will gain from those red calipers :laugh:

i just need to find some heat resistant paint

walmart sells a kit from duplicolor to paint calipers (yellow, black, red, ithink three's silver, but i've never seen it). duplicolor puts out some good products, so i'd give them a try.

 

[homestarmy]

Originally posted by: Aharami
i wonder whats in these packages

could it be this??

the genuine product baby!!!

some closeups:
slotted AND cross drilled
awesome craftmanship
nice

should fit in nicely into this

You realize just because the blanks were made by brembo... that doesn't mean that the cross drilling and slotting was done by them. They only do that on the professional big brake kits...

It's not like you were doing that for performance anyhow (if you knew anything about them). The slots and holes aren't going to help your braking performance at all, if anything actually hurt it slightly. I hope you went into this knowing that the only thing that they would provide you with is bling bling...

The only way you're going to increase stopping power is by increasing the area that the pad touches the rotor or helping heat dissipation.

 

[homestarmy]

Originally posted by: TechnoKid

Originally posted by: Aharami

Originally posted by: Calin
They are looking great! You can paint them red :laugh:

Calin

you bet your ass i will!!

actually painting the calipers will help keep them rust free
not to mention the 25 extra hp my car will gain from those red calipers :laugh:

i just need to find some heat resistant paint

walmart sells a kit from duplicolor to paint calipers (yellow, black, red, ithink three's silver, but i've never seen it). duplicolor puts out some good products, so i'd give them a try.

Those kits are severly overpriced. Just buy the paint seperately.

On a side note, on the box of those kits those are my wheels...

 

[blahblah99]

Originally posted by: Epoman

Originally posted by: blahblah99

Originally posted by: Epoman
So wait a minute, You bought rotors that are Brembo knockoff? someone else drilled them? just because there stock rotors by brembo and someone else drilled them. You will be a fraud you'll be Frontin wit da homies.

No, brembo sells STOCK rotors that are undrilled, uncoated, unslotted. You buy them like that and either bring them to a machine shop to get all that done, or buy them from a third-party who gets stock rotors and resell them drilled/coated/slotted.

NO, Brembo sells STOCK AND PROFESSIONAL (Drilled, Slotted) HE BOUGHT STOCK and had them drilled.
If you want to be legit BUY THE DRILLED ONES from Brembo. He wants to look cool but does not want to spend the EXTRA Money for the DRILLED BREMBOS. He bought STOCK brembos YES BUT he had a shop drill them NOT BREMBO. He will tells all his "peeps" "Yeah man look at my Brembos they cost me major cheese"

AND don't tell me anyone can drill them just as good as brembo, There the leader of performance brakes and rotors. They use precision machines to drill them not like "Chuy" at the machine shop.

Yes, brembo does sell stock and pre-drilled/slotted rotors, but we aren't talking about their prepared rotors. Their "precision machines" aren't any different than the ones used by independent machine shops. They're all CNC machines and yes, perhaps they differ by 10-20 mils of resolution, but as long as the rotors are drilled symmetrically, there won't be a problem.

It's like saying don't buy Walmart brand ibuprofen because it isn't made by Advil!

 

[Mo0o]

Man i was hoping it'd be anthrax

 

[Aharami]

Originally posted by: notfred
Well, you've got big rotors now, too bad the car's not going to stop much better with the stock calipers.

new aftermarket calipers are on the way

 

[Aharami]

Originally posted by: Mo0o
Man i was hoping it'd be anthrax

you mentioned the A word. im gonna call Homeland Security on yo ass

 

[homestarmy]

Originally posted by: Aharami

so why did you GET them?

Just for show?

well my stock rotors are rusted out and wearing thin. so i HAD to get new rotors. Dealer was gonna charge me more for stock rotors than what i paid for these. but "show" is a factor, yes

edit: also these rotors are lighter than stock. stock rotors weigh 17lbs each. these ones are around 14lbs each. so they should save me a pretty penny on gas mileage while giving my car a little more go (it is said that 1 lb of unsprung weight equals to around 10 lbs of sprung weight)

If your dealer was going to charge so much, why didn't you just go to autozone and pick up a set? I guess that is a good way of justifying your purchase...

Also, if you think 3lbs is going to save you gas mileage... well it's not going to happen. I thought that might help out when I went from ~15lb to 11lb wheels, and the difference wasn't noticable, maybe 1mpg at most. Also, the whole sprung vs unsprung weight is mainly for wheels (not that its necessarily accurate anyhow, just a rule of thumb) because the further out the weight is the worse, and the majority of weight on wheels is quite a bit further out... why is why lightweight lug nuts are such a scam.

Also just curious, how do you know that stockies weigh 17 lbs each? That doesn't sound right to me.

 

[TechnoKid]

Originally posted by: homestarmy

Originally posted by: TechnoKid

Originally posted by: Aharami

Originally posted by: Calin
They are looking great! You can paint them red :laugh:

Calin

you bet your ass i will!!

actually painting the calipers will help keep them rust free
not to mention the 25 extra hp my car will gain from those red calipers :laugh:

i just need to find some heat resistant paint

walmart sells a kit from duplicolor to paint calipers (yellow, black, red, ithink three's silver, but i've never seen it). duplicolor puts out some good products, so i'd give them a try.

Those kits are severly overpriced. Just buy the paint seperately.

On a side note, on the box of those kits those are my wheels...

I think they are only like $15-$17, which isn't bad IMO because it include prep stuff like cleaner, and primer i think.

 

[homestarmy]

Originally posted by: Aharami

Originally posted by: Transition
Mm... Sorry to burst your bubble, but enjoy stress fractures from the cross-drilled rotors. Hope you don't race at all, or have deep pockets to replace those.

i think my engine will die b4 my brakes do if i autocross. my car is quick enuff for the roads.....but i'm not dumb or naive enuff to even think my car has any chance at autocross

Who says you need a fast car for auto-x. First, a better driver in a slower car will almost always win (in the same class) and secondly, that's why they have classes.

 

[Ilmater]

I have a heavy package... in my.... well, you know where I'm going with this.

It had to be said by someone.

YOU KNEW WHAT THIS WAS!!!!

 

[TechnoKid]

Originally posted by: blahblah99

Yes, brembo does sell stock and pre-drilled/slotted rotors, but we aren't talking about their prepared rotors. Their "precision machines" aren't any different than the ones used by independent machine shops. They're all CNC machines and yes, perhaps they differ by 10-20 mils of resolution, but as long as the rotors are drilled symmetrically, there won't be a problem.

It's like saying don't buy Walmart brand ibuprofen because it isn't made by Advil!

Brembo doesn't make slotted and drilled rotors, it is one or the other. Drilled
Slotted

 

[Aharami]

Originally posted by: TechnoKid

Originally posted by: homestarmy

Originally posted by: TechnoKid

Originally posted by: Aharami

Originally posted by: Calin
They are looking great! You can paint them red :laugh:

Calin

you bet your ass i will!!

actually painting the calipers will help keep them rust free
not to mention the 25 extra hp my car will gain from those red calipers :laugh:

i just need to find some heat resistant paint

walmart sells a kit from duplicolor to paint calipers (yellow, black, red, ithink three's silver, but i've never seen it). duplicolor puts out some good products, so i'd give them a try.

Those kits are severly overpriced. Just buy the paint seperately.

On a side note, on the box of those kits those are my wheels...

I think they are only like $15-$17, which isn't bad IMO because it include prep stuff like cleaner, and primer i think.

i will check them out. i just dont want my new calipers to be all rusted out like the ones on my car right now

 

[Aharami]

Originally posted by: homestarmy

Also just curious, how do you know that stockies weigh 17 lbs each? That doesn't sound right to me.

why doesnt that sound right to you?
edit: thats what the dealer said when i spoke with him on the phone

 

[maziwanka]

man. some of the posts are fvcking ridiculous. if you knew rak you would know he wouldnt go to one of his "homies" and brag about his brembo rotors. from his previous threads you know that he's sequentially upgrading his car. he's only telling us what he's been doing to his gti - he doesn't brag at all in his posts...

anyways... the mods are looking great! once you get those calipers (and paint them red!), are you done? are you planning on any more mods??? i wish i was modding, but i cant afford to drop that kind of cash.....

again, the gti is looking sweet!

(Amused response is the best so far).

 

[TechnoKid]

Originally posted by: Aharami

Originally posted by: notfred
Well, you've got big rotors now, too bad the car's not going to stop much better with the stock calipers.

new aftermarket calipers are on the way

calipers aren't going to matter as much as the size of the brake disc, the brake pad compund you are using, and the brake fluid you are using, and what material the brake lines are made of. I would say that out of all of those, the brake pad compound matters the most, followed by the brake fluid and the brake lines.