Originally Posted by drifter' date='Feb 13 2003, 10:10 PM

I want to upgrade the disks in my s3 84 (similar to GSL-SE) and because I know **** all about brakes (at the mo anyway) I was wondering if anyone had done it or thought it was worthwhile. Will stock brakes be good enough to handle a ~300RWHP car (thats what I'm aiming for anyway), or should I be looking at bigger disks?

I can get them at http://www.discpads.com.au/

What do you all reckon?

Are rotors easy to change? (I would imagine they're not but as mentioned earlier I dont know ****, yet.)

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Originally Posted by RightHandDrive' date='Feb 13 2003, 11:47 PM

I've upgraded mine to 2nd Gen brakes on the front. What a difference. I can abuse the hell out of them on the track and there's never any fade.

Originally Posted by drifter' date='Feb 13 2003, 11:50 PM

hehe yeah rust.

Well, I'm doing a welding course at tafe to learn some mig and tig, but till that gets underway, I've been using the old "rust buster" spray (phosphoric acid) all over the hard to get places, to turn the rust back into metal. Then I've been galv spraying the metal.

Later I'll primer that before the paint goes on, but thats later down the track.

I've only had Sundays to do work on it as I've been working 6 days a week at my various jobs.



So anyway, back to the brakes, do you think I should just keep the rotors and change the pads to performance ones? Or change the rotors as well? I like the look of slotted rotors, but if the stock rotors will do the job, I'll leave em on.

Originally Posted by Racer X' date='Feb 14 2003, 03:55 PM

[quote name='drifter' date='Feb 13 2003, 11:50 PM'] hehe yeah rust.

Well, I'm doing a welding course at tafe to learn some mig and tig, but till that gets underway, I've been using the old "rust buster" spray (phosphoric acid) all over the hard to get places, to turn the rust back into metal. Then I've been galv spraying the metal.

Later I'll primer that before the paint goes on, but thats later down the track.

I've only had Sundays to do work on it as I've been working 6 days a week at my various jobs.



So anyway, back to the brakes, do you think I should just keep the rotors and change the pads to performance ones? Or change the rotors as well? I like the look of slotted rotors, but if the stock rotors will do the job, I'll leave em on.

Originally Posted by drifter' date='Feb 14 2003, 12:01 AM

[quote name='Racer X' date='Feb 14 2003, 03:55 PM'] [quote name='drifter' date='Feb 13 2003, 11:50 PM'] hehe yeah rust.

Well, I'm doing a welding course at tafe to learn some mig and tig, but till that gets underway, I've been using the old "rust buster" spray (phosphoric acid) all over the hard to get places, to turn the rust back into metal. Then I've been galv spraying the metal.

Later I'll primer that before the paint goes on, but thats later down the track.

I've only had Sundays to do work on it as I've been working 6 days a week at my various jobs.



So anyway, back to the brakes, do you think I should just keep the rotors and change the pads to performance ones? Or change the rotors as well? I like the look of slotted rotors, but if the stock rotors will do the job, I'll leave em on.

Originally Posted by drifter' date='Feb 14 2003, 12:11 AM

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Ok, well I might leave them on for now and just get some high quality pads.



RightHandDrive: How hard was it to change them over? Whats involved?

Originally Posted by drifter' date='Feb 16 2003, 05:24 PM

I spoke to a mechanic (my uncle) who reckons changing the rotors is a reasonably easy job. He explained the process and it seems doable. A lot of guys over here change their fronts and rears to Holden Commodore types, because they are 5 lug pattern and huge and parts are more than readily accessible.

Originally Posted by j9fd3s' date='Feb 17 2003, 12:38 PM

do you happen to know if the commodore stuff fits anything else made by gm?



mike