Chisteve

Hi All

I'm looking to upgrade my brakes

Looks like brembo discs from searching the interweb are not avalaible

Anyony know of a supplier or the best alternative make

Steve

Dillon_93

I've just bought some Dixcel discs recently with the forums discount, top quality product as well

tozerman

Dixcels are a very good quality (and price)
If I was looking for standard discs I would go to my nearest euro Car Parts and buy some Pagid discs, they are about £90-100 the pair and are of the very highest quality.

Taikyu

Lots of info on the DIXCEL's here or drop me a message.

https://www.s2ki.com/s2000/topic/108...p-and-running/

Anthony

Toms1989

Delphi do pairs for S's. Any decent motor factor won't charge you more than £60 for the pair.

Ran them on my S with DS2500's and have shown no signs of fatigue over the past 2 years.

noodels

Probably most are the same anyway -agree a good motor factors

Chisteve

Thanks for the replies

As noted above was looking for upgrading disc's as intend to do the odd track but want to keep calipers standard to keep the car standard looking as possible

Was thinking about brembos as I'm told they are the best

Are dixcels drilled/slotted ?

Its not really that clear

lovegroova

You don't really need different discs for track work. Pads are more important.

Dixcel do both slotted and plain discs. An "SD" suffix signifies slotted, and "PD" is not slotted.

Chisteve

Thanks for the clarification

Taikyu

We have many people using both the PD and SD rotors or the high carbon FP or FS rotors on track and street. The High carbon heat treated rotors are a bit tougher when it comes to being abused for prolonged periods of time. This is why they are a favourite to competitors in series like Super Tiakyu where the OEM rotor dimensions must be retained.

A rule of thumb with slots is: a rotor with 6 Slots per side will increase the overall braking performance by up to 20% but increase pad wear rate by 30% on the road and up to 50% on the track.

As an occasional track day go'er you might find that a good compromise would be a slotted SD rotor with an ES pads. This will give an affordable but capable package that will behave quietly and reliably on the road.

An alternative would be to take the PD rotor with the more capable Z type pad. Again you will benefit from quiet civilised operation, great pedal from cold and great on track performance.

Either option comes in around £200 for the front axle.

I highly recommend matching front to rear axle. So if you do a slotted rotor on the front do the same on the rear with the same pad! This is VERY important to braking performance and reducing stopping distance.

Let me know if you have any other questions.

Regards,
Anthony