[Miata] Re: Prioritizing Winter Upgrades & Maintenance

[Dillon]

I can't speak much to the history of the rotors (I've only had the car for
15k miles).  I'm going to inspect them today.  I want to make sure that
cleaning the rotors will be sufficient to get the old pad material off.

In other news, the brake hoses are still at BSI Racing.  Some kind of
shipping snafu, even though I ordered them two weeks ago :(  They will
arrive next week, but I'll probably be out of town.

On 2/2/07, Larry Alster <Larry at miata.net> wrote:
>
>  Do you have excessive mileage on the rotors??
>
> Do you have any gouging of the rotor surface??
>
> Do you have any pedal vibration while braking??
>
> If the answer to any of the above is yes then change the rotors.
>
> If not scrub them with a scotchbrite pad and brake cleaner to make sure
> you remove all the old pad material and reuse them.
>
> Larry
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> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Dillon <dillon.boyer at gmail.com>
> *To:* Miata list <miata at realbig.com>
> *Sent:* Friday, February 02, 2007 3:13 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Miata] Re: Prioritizing Winter Upgrades & Maintenance
>
> It's been suggested that I should replace the rotors as well.  I thought
> it was ok to simply clean the rotors before swapping pads.  I imagine track
> drivers do this as they switch from street to track pads before an event.
> Any thoughts?
>
> Also, I keep reading/hearing about rotors for less than $20 each.  I'm
> looking at Autozone and Napa and the fronts are $30-60.  Only the rears can
> be found for <$20.
>
> If I decide to get rotors, are cheap rotors ok?
>
> On 2/1/07, Dillon <dillon.boyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On the subject of changing brake pads, I'm going to be switching from
> > whatever is currently on the car to Porterfield R4S pads.  Assuming my
> > rotors are in good shape, is it sufficient to clean them with a scrub pad
> > and some brake cleaner?
> >
> > After the swap, I plan to bed them on a country road using the
> > procedures on stoptech.com:
> > http://stoptech.com/tech_info/wp_bedinstock.shtml
> >
> > Are those procedures sufficient / necessary for the Miata?
> >
>
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