powerstop are good but they are going bankrupt cant find em anywhere.. i live ona a gravel road and im gonna install some SSBC rear discs.. ill let you know how they turn out
Ive heard getting Zinc plated disk. They dont rust. Has of now I have a couple of friends who have them for 1 months and still no rust on them
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Bare steel or cast iron rusts..........period!
The F1 and Lemans and maybe even Nascar folks use ceramic rotors, and I bet they don't rust, but each rotor probably costs $1k to $2k each. Something tells me that they are not available in stock Cavalier sizes either.
Sorry, rusting rotors is just something we all have to live with.
I have brembo slotted replacement rotors that have zinc coating and they have yet to rust. The only thing that you get is after i wash the car, the place that the pad touches gets a rust color but go down the road and its gone. The top part and and the part that touches the wheel look like they were just taken out of the box.
I have the Ractive Cross-drilled & Slotted rotor's they are Zinc plated and they were $80 buck's each Cdn. In the Two year's I've had them on they have performed flawlessly no rust,plus using stock caliper's,they have impressed me.
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A zinc coated rotor consists of cast iron dipped in zinc. Where the pads meet the rotor they will wear through the zinc and you will get some surface rust. It is unavoidable.
this is a zinc plated rotor
Location: Montreal, Quebec
mcmoney wrote:this is a zinc plated rotor
That's actually an anodized aluminum hat on what appears to be a zinc washed rotor.
Mine still look great as well. Happy I got the zinc coated ones since if they weren't they likely wouldn't last nearly as long. They'd probably rust through before my pads ever really had a chance to eat through them.
I've seen cheap rotors practically falling apart from the amount of rust they've built up inside the cooling vanes!
from working at a parts store and being a certified brake lathe operator i can tell you that your standard cast rotors from aftermarke oe replacements ( we carry wagner and standard brake). the wagners are zinc coated (this is waht gives them the lifetime warranty) (for any of those that get parts from an O'Reillys) OE replacements but the zinc coating is undoubtedly thin and less then 1 week of operation and it begins to rust.. but that rotor will last longer than the pads, caliper, maybe car, if they are turned properly and never get the rivets in the pads
well like i said powerstop are good.. but you wont fine em anymore they went chapter 11.. i just tired to order some and i got the very last set in the arrowspeed warehouses.. but they set i got was for a camaro.. not my cavalier..
