Just for the record, I was not suggesting the 20 dollar rotor. I was mearly pointing out that there were rotors out there for a cheap price close to the cost of resurfacing. Once again, my suggestions on brake parts are OEM. That is for both rotors and brake pads. That set up is not prone to warp and will last the longest of the other choices.

 

If you're running metal or ceramic-metal pads, you should probably be running some nicer rotors than OE anyway.

 

Metal pads are gonna eat up a rotor like a fat kid on cake. To me, those are overkill when it comes to a street driven car.

 

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keep in mind that ceramic pads DO NOT STOP WELL....... what they do is create less brake dust, and last longer. People use ceramic pads if they don't want to spend 10 min cleaning high dollar rims every day. For track use a soft compound pad is best Hawk makes a very low cost pad that works quite well.

As far as rotars, 90% of the people who do DE classes or road course weekends, use low cost OEM rotors. They are viewed as throw away items after 2-3 weekends of tracking. I have a set of bling bling drilled and slotted rotars and ceramic pads I use for DD/Show use, but when it's time to stop fast, it's time to break out the soft pads, OEM rotars, and cheap/light rims.

I can get 4 OEM rotars for a c-5 for less then 140 bucks total, I can't imagine a civic set of rotars cost more then 100 bucks for all 4.

The cheapest way to improve your breaking is via a high quality brake fluid and SS lines. Those two items will do wonders to reduce brake fade.
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