Pixy Angel Expert Donating Members 9,132 Member For: 19y 11m 12d Gender: Male Location: North Jamberoo, NSW Posted 23/11/13 09:03 AM Share Posted 23/11/13 09:03 AM http://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/86007-what-upgrade-brakes-on-g6e-lux-rims/Hay guys just wondering if my mate got me the right rotors and pads for the fg. Got them last night yet to fit them. only cheap ones. Because mine are farked.Rotors are rda slotted and dimpled fronts parts number (RDA7934D)Hey Biz ive got the RDA's on the front only works ok put some heat in them and they work better again. You can see and ready more from link above 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizkets is Drunk? Too heavy needs boost Member 5,929 Member For: 11y 6m 2d Gender: Male Location: Adelaide Posted 23/11/13 09:21 AM Share Posted 23/11/13 09:21 AM Cheers angel:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bellato Donating Members 2,713 Member For: 14y 3m 20d Posted 26/11/13 11:37 PM Share Posted 26/11/13 11:37 PM Just to add from personal experience. I just changed stock brakes to RDA slotted and dimpled, remsa pads and some fresh super dot 4 fluid and initially I was a bit let down, but having done about 100kms or so on it now the pedal is more responsive and theres more feel to the brakes. Around town braking they are a fair amount better than standard. Pulled up fairly well on some hard braking aswell, yet to do any high speed stops with them yet. expecting them to get a little better with a few more kms on them aswell. I can't compare to DBA, only to 6/4 brembo's which are incredible, put for the $500 or so I paid for the upgrade it got rid of my shudder and is more than enough of an upgrade for a car that doesn't see a track Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PTR_NITRO_FG Donating Members 3,214 Member For: 11y 8m 14d Gender: Male Location: NOR Perth Posted 27/11/13 02:29 AM Author Share Posted 27/11/13 02:29 AM great to know Bellato!I got my territory calipers sitting at home just deciding which RDA's to go.The price difference between slotted only (8 slots) and slotted and dimpled is a fair bit (almost double)...so not sure which route I will be going. The inner jew in me wants to just get slotted, but idk if ill regret it or not. I guess I will be keeping the car for many years, so perhaps ill just experiment and try a bunch of different combos I'll do slotteds only first, then next time around ill try slotted + dimpled and then lastly give the t3's all round a go (hopefully by then ill be able to afford them lol) Not sure whether to bother with the gold passivating (which apparently is only done to reduce amount of corrosion, but idk if its worth it? like does the corrosion on the disc itself only happen when it rains and then drys funny? and doesn't it disappear after a few dry stops?).Gunna take the same approach with my suspension (moroes first, then ill try billys). I guess ill be a test dummy from the brembo pads as I assume no one on these forums have given them a go? Then I might try the ferodo TQ pads. But once I have more power than stock, ill give better pads a go and buy the brake dust cleaner sh*t and just put up with sh*tty dust everywhere and sh*tty life out of the pads Quick question, do people think changing the pads at the same time as changing rotors is completely necessary? This is just for the gf's ford laser (as I was looking at just doing slotted rotors all round and keeping the general cts that are in there now (and have been used for maybe 15000kms over the last year and a bit) and I'm fairly sure there's still bulk pad left. Should be all good yeah (I.e. I did a front rotor swap only in my old pulsar sss and don't recall the mechanic saying that I NEED to swap pads at the same time as install). Any opinions?Kinda tempting to do on the FG (cause once I have the rotors ill wanna chuck them straight on)...but I better be patient and wait til I have pads, rotors and braided lines and just put up with the sh*tty squeal for another few months :/ lol cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arronm Dropping a turd Gold Donating Members 9,520 Member For: 17y 3m 12d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 27/11/13 04:30 AM Share Posted 27/11/13 04:30 AM Brake discs show surface corrosion quickly when wet, because they are manufactured from high carbon grey cast iron (flake graphite). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discostig Manual mode ________________________ All day, erryday Donating Members 13,798 Member For: 17y 2m 15d Gender: Male Location: Probably above atmospheric pressure Posted 27/11/13 04:48 AM Share Posted 27/11/13 04:48 AM If using old pads on new rotors, scuff up the pads well on a normal bitumen road surface so that they can mate nicely to the new rotor face. Basically rub them until they are no longer shiny smooth. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PTR_NITRO_FG Donating Members 3,214 Member For: 11y 8m 14d Gender: Male Location: NOR Perth Posted 27/11/13 05:29 AM Author Share Posted 27/11/13 05:29 AM LOL.....sounds a bit rough, but I guess it makes sense as it would be giving a nice fresh surface and bed in nicely to the rotors. Sounds like a plan then ... thought I'd buy a couple little things for the mrs car, that way she cant complain when I buy my rotors hahahah (plus extra braking performance would be beneficial to both of us, even though I'm the only one who really drives her car lol) next will be some nice low offset 17's , SSL all round, exhaust and pod in airbox lol JK ppl.....I do feel kinda bad for some out there...as I found a Ford laser forum, and they had a garage/show us your ride section. So funny seeing them doing up their 1.6L Lxi models lol at least ours is a Glxi.. the extra 200CC makes it a BEAST [ ] cheers Mr Steve [] Brake discs show surface corrosion quickly when wet, because they are manufactured from high carbon grey cast iron (flake graphite). Cool....thanks for explaining the technical part for me lol so there's no real point in getting the rotors in gold. RapidRS do the process (passivate I think she called it) but if the corrosion goes away after a few stops then what's the point? unless having less corrosion on the hub area is beneficial...but is it $110 beneficial lol IDK :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arronm Dropping a turd Gold Donating Members 9,520 Member For: 17y 3m 12d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 27/11/13 08:08 AM Share Posted 27/11/13 08:08 AM The corrosion only goes away at the contact patch from the pad , the rest of the disc will show corrosion.It depends if you don't mind a rusty appearance.Below a DBA T3 painted except pad area..No rust on the APs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PTR_NITRO_FG Donating Members 3,214 Member For: 11y 8m 14d Gender: Male Location: NOR Perth Posted 27/11/13 12:42 PM Author Share Posted 27/11/13 12:42 PM Fkn phone dying just after I wrote a long reply lolAp racing or brembos hey lol considering I'm stinging out on rda's and Monroe's lol I doubt I'll ever afford good brakes lol Once I pay some loans off and credit cards I'll consider getting a 5-10k loan and making it awesome, but for now that is literally years awayAlso wondering on ppls opinion. I think I'll do what's in the brembo pic and paint the inside hat area a specific colour. I have a nitro blue car plus bright blue lock nuts ATM so considering matching it all in nitro (calipers top and bottom, inside hat of rotor, and one of those "rim protector" tape thingys that go around the outside of your rim (got them on eBay and it's like a thin, colored, mini white wall strip thing) lol terrible explaining but hopefully someone understands Other options were bright yellow everything (like the white f6 with harrops (forgot his username)) Or red like try hard brembos Or all black (with blue whitewall strip thing coz black would be dumb lol) Also rims have dark grey middle 20 spokes with chrome dish ATM.... Eventually wanna paint the mesh middle section black so considering that for colours also....and will be putting pbr logo stickers on each caliper (in white)Opinions anyone? ATM leaning towards nitro or black options .... So hard to choose :/ lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discostig Manual mode ________________________ All day, erryday Donating Members 13,798 Member For: 17y 2m 15d Gender: Male Location: Probably above atmospheric pressure Posted 27/11/13 12:53 PM Share Posted 27/11/13 12:53 PM (edited) Want for silver colouring on my Brembos is strong. Do like the splash of colour on my silver car though.Have noticed a couple of cars lately with painted hats, here's a GT Edited 27/11/13 12:53 PM by -SteveR- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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