"I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details" ~Jorge Luis Borges


The reason why I was getting the scraping sound from my left rear is because the
pads were put on backwards and I was getting metal to metal on the plating side.
But wait!
When wrapping things up, the right front 205/45/17 Parada Spec 2 was put on the rear and the rear Nitto 225/40/17 was put on the front. I didn't notice until I was walking up behind the car in the light and noticed the different tread on the right rear.

Moral here? I don't blame Alex for the faux pas'...rather daylight savings time. We simply tried to finish in the dark when we should of just waited and put the car in
the garage after Matt was finished. Good thing I finally decided, "no
way is this metal on metal scraping sound normal." You guys saying, "it's normal after installing rotors" should be flogged.


Other than that, as always, enjoy the company and the technical assistance. The good side to this is I couldn't believe that the rear 225 tire actually was sitting comfortably under the front wheel well which tells me I could of, like Ritchie, gone to a same size tire on all four corners and not rubbed. I might just do that and put a fresh set of Nittos on the front.


Alex, don't worry about anything. The marks on the rotor will wear off before you
even see me. I knew something was up when the noise started happening even when I WASN'T braking.

 

FYI: To get an equivalent stagger to the OE Bridgestones you'd need a 245 on the rear. The 225 OE S02's actually have the same tread width as most 245's. With the right offsets you could go as wide as 245 front and 285 rear. I had no idea when I bought my 215's & 255's.

What type of rotors did you put on?

 

hahaha....Atleast we diddnt forget to put the rotors back on. Russ have you painted the calipers yet?

 

Tmorrow, no slam on you but if you wrote "Russ" and "tires" in the search engine, your computer would probably overheat. I've written volumes on this topic many, many times. I won't go into it here. My tires are sized nearly an inch SHORTER than stock for a particular reason. Stagger for me isn't necessary and as Ritchie clearly pointed out
on Saturday, with the right suspension mods, even with same-sized tires on all four corners, it can be extremely hard getting the car to break loose. This is my
23rd or 24th sportscar (I can't remember anymore) so I'm fine with little or no stagger but wouldn't recommend it for most. I was weened on rear wheel drive cars (being 42).

FWIW, I would never go with a 245/285 combo. Way too much unsprung weight and the car, while looking meaner, would actually be down about 15hp compared
to the tire/wheel combo I run now. For instance, my 17-inch wheel weighs 14.7-lbs
while a 285mm tire would probably tip the scales at 30-lbs just on its own.
By the way, the rotors are from Irotors.com

Won't paint the calipers until sometime next week I guess. Should look nice though.

 

Russ, the new rotors look GREAT!

What color will you be painting the calipers?

 

ok..
so lemme see if i got this straight..

Never screw in the street at night w/o proper lighting.. if you do.. you may end up putting it in the wrong hole...

you'll know when this occurs due to an abnormal squealing sound...

i think i can handle that...

 

I need to stick to racing, I should hang up my mechanix gloves...

 

No problem. We just have different performance goals. You're looking for 60' and 1/4mi. times, while I'm looking for maximum lateral G's.

The new rotors look sweet.