Brake Disks Opinions

[steelroe]

What are peoples opinons on diff types/manuafacturers of aftermarket Disks.
(This is not FTO specific).
Or specifically what disks would you prefer to have on a big brake conversion?

[Bernard]

I was wondering this myself.

I was reading up on different types of disc, it seems drilled ones can crack.
With that in mind I had a look for dimpled ones and the only ones I can find are the EBC grooved & dimpled.
Not sure how good or bad they are though.

[steelroe]

Problem with big brakes and dimpled/grooved disks is sqeal and judder. Similar to the noise you hear from rally cars under hard breaking.

I reckon a bigger caliper with normal disks are more than enough for a standard engined FTO, for tubo etc the grooves and dimples are a vast improvement.

[steelroe]

By standard disk i mean larger diameter but smooth finish

[Dragonheart]

With drilled and grooved you seem to get that shaky feeling when braking hard all right as you said Rory, the other thing is that they wear the pads a lot quicker than flat discs so the pads need replacing more often.

[d_dan]

I would never get drilled disks, iv seen 2 cases of disks cracking and it originated from these,
Groved disks and maybe dimpled but I always go for groved disks.

3G do a lovely disk and with say forrodo pads they have a lovey bite

[Bernard]

I have grooved discs and ferodo pads at the moment.
No problems yet with either squeal or judder, maybe it's just drilled/dimpled ones that cause this?

[gt94]

I had 20 grooved discs on my gpx never had any problems would rather them to standard