It is time to replace my rotors and I am considering going with the girodisks to save a little weight. I do however track the car a few times a year so performance is as important as weight. Anyone have any experiennce with girodisk or a similiarly priced 2 piece rotor.

 

They are GREAT rotors for the track. I've had nothing but good experiences with mine doing track events and autox'ing. The customer service is top notch also. Anytime I've ordered from them they were more than helpful and very quick to deliver.

 

2 piece or 1 piece? Thanks for the input

 

Theyre 2-piece. I was thinking about getting a set a while back too.. Saves a good amount of weight. The Baer's up front save even more though..

 

I have had a full track season with excellent results with racingbrake's 2 piece. Before that I used the stock rotors with DTC pads for the track and I had severe pad depositing. The car shook to hell every braking zone. Now I only have ever soo light deposits that are only visible and are not felt.

I don't use them for double duty on the street. I found rebedding the street pads after track pads and vise versa to be of a hassle. I try to save the high dollar rotors for track use. I end up swapping them out with inexpensive $80 raceshopper signature rotors for the street.

Kyle at Hotlapmotorsports has always given me the best prices on all brake consumables and I highly recommend him.

 

Good point swapping them out!

 

GIRODISC's are absolutely AWESOME!! Top notch as far as rotors go. I've had them on my race car and daily driver for 2 years and there is hardly ANY wear on them at all. Never had any issues with them whatsoever. Plus, I think they are the 2nd lightest set made for the EVO in stock size. . . and you can get them with custom colored center hats. . .

I am talking with Martin (owner of Girodisc) to come up with an even ligther, ULTRALITE set of rotors if there is a market for them. This would be the lightest stock size rotors available for the EVO. I will post up if it ever comes to fruition. . .

EVOlutionary

 

I cant speak for the girodisc rotors themselves, but I have found both Kyle @ hotlapmotorsports.com & Martin at Girodisc.com to be great people to deal with... so I dont think you can go wrong with either of them.

good luck.

n

 

Get them Ed, whether it be Girodiscs or Baers...

I'm running the Baer's all around...

 

I have them on my car and love them. No noise and pad wear doesn't seem to be very bad. Only one bad thing about the rears, you have to grind down the pads to fit properly. But it's worth it.

 

I had the GiroDisc 2 piece rotors on my evo in the front & rear for roughtly 2+ years & was happy W them. when the wear surface wore down i priced a set of the replacment rings. it turned out i could buy a complete new set of Performance Friction's 2 piece rotors for only 50$ more than rebuilding my GiroDisc rotors. to top it off replacement costs on the PFC rotors was cheaper


another point of concern for me was that the GiroDisc Rotors use a cupped washer with low torque to keep the rotor from rattling on the hat. if you get your brakes hot enough, such as at a track event the rotor expands & with the washer pinned between the attachment nut & the expanding rotor it flattens the cupped washer, leading to a rotor that clicks more than usual unless the washers are replaced. im not sure if it was the 2+ years or the short time that the attachment nuts were loose due to the flattened washers but the rotor attachment nuts ended up chewing into the aluminum hat over time & i felt better going with a new set of 2-piece rotors that require less maintaince & have cheaper rebuild coses

on that note, the spring clip setup that PFC uses on their rotors uses a much larger spring to allow for the expansion of the rotor surface without compromising the spring