Great mods for about $300
#61
Pretty sure slotted rotors are better than normal rotors...considering I see them on every Porsche that comes into the shop where I work. But if I'm wrong I'm wrong. I AM going to get new pads as well, going with ceramic as well.
#62
They're better for cooling, however for a Honda Fit....they're not worth the extra cost. If you look at the road racing/autox forum on Honda-Tech, all the guys who drive their cars hard buy the cheapest rotors possible.
#63
I'm not driving it hard, I'm making my car better than it is, making it the best car I can for the money I have. You even said to go all JDM parts, which are much more expensive than any other knock off part, and now that I actually want to pony up the cash for a better product, you're saying not to? What?
#64
On a stock fit, if you want to improve braking. All you should really need are some ceramic pads and nice summer tires. Blank rotors will be more then enough for a stock or lightly modded Fit
Last edited by MNfit; 10-13-2012 at 06:54 PM.
#66
Technically slotted rotors dont cool better. The slots are for keeping the pad surface clean. If you want to stop faster get better tires ( the brakes are overwhelming the stock tires). If you want to be able to do lots of hard braking your gonna need better pads and better brake fluid ( that can withstand higher temps).
#68
I'm not driving it hard, I'm making my car better than it is, making it the best car I can for the money I have. You even said to go all JDM parts, which are much more expensive than any other knock off part, and now that I actually want to pony up the cash for a better product, you're saying not to? What?
And I never said to get 'jdm' parts, I said to not get replicas. I don't have a single 'JDM' part on my car.
Technically slotted rotors dont cool better. The slots are for keeping the pad surface clean. If you want to stop faster get better tires ( the brakes are overwhelming the stock tires). If you want to be able to do lots of hard braking your gonna need better pads and better brake fluid ( that can withstand higher temps).
#69
Thats the price you pay for better initial bite. I know allot of the spec E30 guys on e30tech run brembo blanks or slotted.
#72
Slower/stocker car now = better driver later, or at least that's what my friends tell me.
#73
Oh don't worry, I've auto X'd before, just with a different car. My friend and I basically rebuilt his miata and raced it. But now he's racing it in a different part of the country and I'm stuck in st. Louis with the fit.
#75
Eh, I may not be competitive, but I can show people there that I can have just as much fun in my little fit as they can
#76
I actually am thinking of putting in the engine from an Audi A-4. May be a bit hard, but I like the idea of mixing cultures of cars together. Like, one of my guys in my shop put a 2jz into an old camaro because he liked the camaro but hated its engine...for some reason hahaha.
#77
I actually am thinking of putting in the engine from an Audi A-4. May be a bit hard, but I like the idea of mixing cultures of cars together. Like, one of my guys in my shop put a 2jz into an old camaro because he liked the camaro but hated its engine...for some reason hahaha.
#78
A lot of people think the A-4 is unreliable, but in all reality they just have one flaw, and it's covered under factory warranty, no matter how many miles. Also, I work in an Audi/Porsche dealer and any time I need to do something, I can have it done for free on Mondays, as long as I help
Oh, and that one problem is that their cylinders kind of...you know...burn oil a bit and have to get new pistons and rings put in. (I've seen 3 of my techs working on this issue on 3 different A-4's hahaha) So, if I find a used engine that's had this problem looked at, I get a great engine that was designed with a turbo already on it, therefore adding no extra cost for wanting a turbo.