R56 Rock Auto Rotors??
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Rock Auto Rotors??
I am new to the Mini forums but 20+ year poster to Bimmerpost/Bimmerforums. I don't normally buy from Rock Auto BUT my wife's 2010 Mini is in need of rotors. I am interested to know what brands if any you guys recommend. It will never see a track or autocross but would like street rotor suggestions from RA. Looking at drilled and slotted. Experiences??
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I am new to the Mini forums but 20+ year poster to Bimmerpost/Bimmerforums. I don't normally buy from Rock Auto BUT my wife's 2010 Mini is in need of and rotors. I am interested to know what brands if any you guys recommend. It will never see a track or autocross but would like street rotor suggestions from RA. Looking at drilled and slotted. Experiences??
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FrankMstein (01-23-2023)
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Go with the centric ones that have the rust coating. I ran those with EBC yellow pads for both street and dragon runs no issues. Those pads are way to aggressive for what you are going to be doing. My Clubman came with slotted and drilled rotors that I wrapped after a few dragon weekends. I don’t know what their prior life was.
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Don't bother. Unless you're upping the rotor diameter, all that's doing is giving you less surface area and less mass to absorb the heat. They sell those to people who like the looks.
You want to stop well, get a set of standard rotors from a reputable vendor, and match them with a set of pads that are appropriate for the driving you're going to do (e.g. if you're not tracking the car don't get race pads, they won't get hot enough to work well in street use).
You want to stop well, get a set of standard rotors from a reputable vendor, and match them with a set of pads that are appropriate for the driving you're going to do (e.g. if you're not tracking the car don't get race pads, they won't get hot enough to work well in street use).
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Don't bother. Unless you're upping the rotor diameter, all that's doing is giving you less surface area and less mass to absorb the heat. They sell those to people who like the looks.
You want to stop well, get a set of standard rotors from a reputable vendor, and match them with a set of pads that are appropriate for the driving you're going to do (e.g. if you're not tracking the car don't get race pads, they won't get hot enough to work well in street use).
You want to stop well, get a set of standard rotors from a reputable vendor, and match them with a set of pads that are appropriate for the driving you're going to do (e.g. if you're not tracking the car don't get race pads, they won't get hot enough to work well in street use).
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To put my hat in the ring here if I may. My experience with a R52 JCW that gets driven extremely hard, auto crossed and takes the occasional trip to race tracks and the Smoky Mountains. I wont ever again install so much as an aftermarket air freshener on this car. Nope, not gonna do it ever again. It has cost us tipple in money, quadruple in time and at least one podium. After finally getting rid of the last aftermarket parts the car has been incredibly reliable. This aint a Nissan, that **** wont cut it. Your mileage may vary.
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To put my hat in the ring here if I may. My experience with a R52 JCW that gets driven extremely hard, auto crossed and takes the occasional trip to race tracks and the Smoky Mountains. I wont ever again install so much as an aftermarket air freshener on this car. Nope, not gonna do it ever again. It has cost us tipple in money, quadruple in time and at least one podium. After finally getting rid of the last aftermarket parts the car has been incredibly reliable. This aint a Nissan, that **** wont cut it. Your mileage may vary.
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BTW I went to MTSU. I can not wait for Flatrock to open!!! It should eclipse VIR!! 8-)
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I used to have a jar of genuine replacement harness smoke on my desk. Thankfully the Lord of Darkness did not supply the electrics for Dear Alice.
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Thanks for the input, but that is not exactly true. I have to clear the air on this one. Increasing diameter will help however I do not want to absorb heat at all, I want to dissipate it along with the gas layer that forms between the pad and rotor as they heat up, hence the slots. Absorbing it will prematurely degrade the bearing. If I were tracking I would get just slotted since drilled crack fairly easily when in the colder months and no cool down laps. Also, pro tip, remove the brake dust from the drilled holes every once and a while. Drilled and slotted are going to work great for my application-street. FWIW I used to work at PFC, a very reputable high end racing brake (caliper/pad/rotor) company. I just don't have much experience with RA "vendors"/suppliers.
I'm not going to say it's definitive, but this presentation has at least a reasonable summary of the pros and cons of holes and slots.
https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/cgi/vie...text=auto_pres
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if you can put up with the brake dust, EBC yellows, solid rotors, ss lines, and a good brake fluid is all you need. I run this on my R55s and will be doing the same on my R53. I daily drive and weekend dragon time, brake dust is horrible, but if you keep up on wiping them down its not so bad.
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For a given rotor diameter, cross-drilled rotors have less surface area so you're reducing the pad/disc contact. Also for a given rotor diameter, cross- drilled rotors have less mass. So you're generating the same heat with each stop, but dumping it into less iron so the rotor potentilaly gets hotter. For street cars they're mostly for looks and marketing, not performance, and you'd be better served by a quality set of standard rotors and appropriate pads.
I'm not going to say it's definitive, but this presentation has at least a reasonable summary of the pros and cons of holes and slots.
https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/cgi/vie...text=auto_pres
I'm not going to say it's definitive, but this presentation has at least a reasonable summary of the pros and cons of holes and slots.
https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/cgi/vie...text=auto_pres
I agree with what you said here and presented however, I never said that drilled will vent the pad but that slotting would. There is a distinct difference. Decreasing the mass vs degassing, cooling, cleaning, etc has a greater effect on Mu (the friction coefficient) at higher temps than street/autocross. Drilled rotors have a greater propensity to crack with high temps and fast cooling. I've seen it at the track before. I have seen the SIU article before that some mechanic put on in one of their buildings but he is not from the industry where they do research to improve their technology...with data. A lot of what he says is totally false, misleading, or scientifically wrong. Like the one picture I remember of him tightening the rotor to the hub with an impact gun and not a torque wrench with totally negates his latter discussion of torque wrench use. What a joke. He wouldn't have gotten very far if I were in the presentation. A lot of it is based on crackpot "myths' that only stupid people try or say. Some of what he says from what I remember IS good info, trade based at best. It is a popular article to poke fun at for a few reasons. Coming from the brake world this is a well known subject, and article. This "Ronald J. Henningsen Tech Editor Undercar Digest Magazine" last I heard he was a blogger now. The one thing I find that he completely left out of the article on brake judder (wobble he calls it) was pad deposits...totally left that off! Yes, Power Stop is in the business to sell you something but is not going to throw misleading info just to be proven wrong. I have seen the data. The industry knows, rest of the industry agrees. There is a lot of articles, and sources for the same info, below is just two. The technology is real and manufacturers will go after you if your slots look like theirs because...they work. If it were a gimmick and it did nothing, then no one would copy no no one would do it.
https://www.powerstop.com/resources/...etter%20choice.
https://www.brembo.com/en/company/ne...led-or-slotted
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