Apr 15, 2008 | 03:33 PM
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First off, im dumb and didnt even know that our rear brakes were drum style and pad put together. what a pain in my rear.

Never ever ever go 95 thousand miles on rear rotors and never touch them. its been a nightmare. Not only was everything rusted but there was salt everywhere. It took me an hour just to get the tire off and then another 4 to get the rotor off. Im still not finished with the one side, i need to clean a lot more but its a definate wonderful progress that looks flippin sweet.

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Apr 15, 2008 | 08:33 PM
  #2  
Yeah, I've yet to change my rear rotors and I'm not looking forward to it. I know they'll be seized on there. A torch should do the trick, though.
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Apr 15, 2008 | 08:37 PM
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ya know ive always questions that i know on my race cars we put the rotors the way he has them with the spirol going counter clock, but i jsut put those on my car but i put them the other way spinning them the other direction b/c with theses rotors i dont see i direction cut in the drill or slot sooooo. is it just prefrence??
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Apr 15, 2008 | 08:39 PM
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oyea otter the rears go alot faster then the front all you have to do is take out the 14mm bolt at the bottom of the caliper and rotate it. the braket doesnt get in the way like in the front, thats all you have to do.+ a bit of hammer lol just make sure you have the ebrake off.
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Apr 15, 2008 | 09:18 PM
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Quote: ya know ive always questions that i know on my race cars we put the rotors the way he has them with the spirol going counter clock, but i jsut put those on my car but i put them the other way spinning them the other direction b/c with theses rotors i dont see i direction cut in the drill or slot sooooo. is it just prefrence??
ya know...i didnt even pay attention to which way to put the rotors on. haha, i just grabbed one and said, swear word, swear word, swear word, thats right, swear word, whos your daddy. 4 hours later, i was happy that i got that far.

i just thought that it was disk brakes in the rear too, and didnt have an internal drum set up. i spent all day thinking that a spring and clip was holding the rotor on when it was just seazed up to hell...
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Apr 17, 2008 | 08:58 AM
  #6  
ya know when you get around to doing this it might not be a bad thing to shave a bit off the hub were the inners meet with the rotors they were pretty rusted on my and alomost got in the way of the new rotor.
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Apr 17, 2008 | 06:30 PM
  #7  
see mine are the other way b/c i dont see a rotation cut on them, so i dont think it matter with these.


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Apr 17, 2008 | 07:02 PM
  #8  
great... now i'm definitely not looking forward to doing my rotors this summer.
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Apr 17, 2008 | 09:47 PM
  #9  
those look great!
which ebay user did you bought yours from? =]
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Apr 18, 2008 | 08:25 AM
  #10  
i got mine from brakelabs
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Apr 21, 2008 | 09:28 AM
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i was gonna replace my pads and rotors all around this weekend with the same setup but when i took my old pads off they were barely broken in, i guess ill wait another 30k before i can put mine on. the new brakes look good.
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Apr 21, 2008 | 07:31 PM
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Quote: those look great!
which ebay user did you bought yours from? =]
i dont have an ebay acount, i feel that people use it now to jack the prices, not make them cheaper.

r 1 concepts had the ebay site but i used there actual website to purchase from them
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Apr 22, 2008 | 02:47 PM
  #13  
those new ones look great!
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Apr 26, 2008 | 09:41 AM
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Looks good Man!!! good choice!
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Apr 26, 2008 | 04:06 PM
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thanks guys. my ebrake is much stiffer, not because of the slots but because they old rotors were so shot. but i do notice about a 15 percent increase in stopping power, but only if i slam on the brakes. i still have wheel shakage unfortuntely but its about 30 percent less. so i basically needed brakes all around
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