Brake Discs

[chrispitman]

Need to change the rear discs on my chimera 450 year 99, have the 260mm discs on the front if that helps, after part numbers of groved discs that will fit. ie ebc, tarox etc

Also I see alot of you using the mintex pads 1144 whats the part numbers for the front and rears.

[zippee]

Part numbers on my profile for black diamond 12 groove.

[daxtojeiro]

might want to read this before buying black diamond discs:

www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=233882&f=9&h=0

I bought dimpled and grooved EBC's after reading it
Phil

[zippee]

daxtojeiro said:

might want to read this before buying black diamond discs:

www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=233882&f=9&h=0

I bought dimpled and grooved EBC's after reading it
Phil

This really infuriates me - one person had a problem and the whole brand is tarnished. I've had mine on front and rear for 14000 miles including track days and very hard driving on the Furball and had no problems at all. Neother have several others I know that also fitted them.

[GreenV8S]

The pictures shown on that other thread look to me like quite old discs, not brand new discs with ten miles on them as the OP seemed to be suggesting. Perhaps there was something wrong with them, but I wouldn't take that at face value tbh.

There isn't a great deal of difference between different brands of discs, certainly not enough to justify paying a premium for them, at the end of the day they're all straight forward cast iron discs with simple machining done. Claims that one brand is significantly better than another is largely marketing twaddle. The difference that *does* justify the extra cash is the posh discs with the surface features cast in rather than machined into plain blanks - but these cost a *lot* more and if you're buying these you'll certainly know about it. For everyone else the difference between the different brands disappears when you take them out of the box.

For pads it's a different story and there's a big difference between ordinary road pads and the high temperature fast road pads that you should be using. The M1144s have the advantage of being extremely cheap (which helps when you go through them at a rate of knots) but easily outperformed by more expensive pads such as the DS2500, Tarox XF and so on.

[daxtojeiro]

zippee said:

daxtojeiro said:

might want to read this before buying black diamond discs:

www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=233882&f=9&h=0

I bought dimpled and grooved EBC's after reading it
Phil

This really infuriates me - one person had a problem and the whole brand is tarnished. I've had mine on front and rear for 14000 miles including track days and very hard driving on the Furball and had no problems at all. Neother have several others I know that also fitted them.

Well I think its best that the guy knows as may facts as he can. I agree that unless you know for sure you cant say whether those discs had done 10miles, but Id rather tell him about it then hear he's had an accident because I didnt !!!
Its up to him what he does now, just for the record, my Brother in Law has a set on his car and they have been fine
Phil