Autozone Rotors

[Wess]

Which type do you use? I visited their website and the have the "Duralast" name for $35 and the "Valucraft" for $21

A search on the board has some folks using the Autozone pads, others using Hawk pads. Which would you reccomend?

I figured I would try the El Cheapo route this time, as the $90 Cryo treated ones I got from www.frozenrotors.com 2 years ago have warped. I got a whole lot of shaking going on! Thanks!

 

[1992SHOMTX]

i would use the duralast ones. I had duralast rotors on a lot of my cars and they work just fine. The valucraft im not sure if i would go that way. I dont like the valucraft brakes...they suck

 

[Wess]

Who makes them? I'm assuming AZ OEMs them from someone.

 

[wood_e]

The difference in those rotors is the warranty....

 

[Mr Anonymous]

The difference in those rotors is the warranty....

Exactly. The Duralast and Valucraft brands are physically identical. Only the warranties are different.

As I always tell people, buy the cheapest, crappiest, Chineseiest rotors you can find; there just as good as the most expensive ones. It all comes down to how you break them in and use them.

 

[Wess]

Exactly. The Duralast and Valucraft brands are physically identical. Only the warranties are different.

As I always tell people, buy the cheapest, crappiest, Chineseiest rotors you can find; there just as good as the most expensive ones. It all comes down to how you break them in and use them.

 

[Wess]

Chris,
What say you on pads?

 

[wood_e]

name's john, but I've heard good things about hawk pads

 

[Damon]

Wes,

As far as pads go, duralast ones have a lifetime warranty, and PFC's (performance friction-carbon) have a 2 year warranty.

-DC

 

[jedhead]

Which type do you use? I visited their website and the have the "Duralast" name for $35 and the "Valucraft" for $21

A search on the board has some folks using the Autozone pads, others using Hawk pads. Which would you reccomend?

I figured I would try the El Cheapo route this time, as the $90 Cryo treated ones I got from www.frozenrotors.com 2 years ago have warped. I got a whole lot of shaking going on! Thanks!

I have had my frozen rotors for 6 years still not warped. However I am upgrading to 12.5" Baers.

Bob

 

[Wess]

I have had my frozen rotors for 6 years still not warped. However I am upgrading to 12.5" Baers.

Bob

I haven't driven a Ford yet that didn't eat rotors. I don't know how you do it. Maybe it's my driving style.

 

[SHOZ123]

Pads eat rotors. On the 11.6 rotor the Ford OEM pads will keep the rotor in fine shape and provide excellent braking. I changed my originals rotors at 90K and bought AutoZone ones. Got over 40k on them so far.

 

[Wess]

Pads eat rotors. On the 11.6 rotor the Ford OEM pads will keep the rotor in fine shape and provide excellent braking. I changed my originals rotors at 90K and bought AutoZone ones. Got over 40k on them so far.

Even the mighty Hawk HPS pads? I guess I won't buy into the hype next time.

 

[BodylessSHO]

Duralast Golds are slightly better brakes, and I believe the front set is actually cheaper than the straight duralasts, on our cars.

 

[spragers]

I went with the cheapers rotors AutoZone had at the time, and PFC pads. That was a year ago this past summer. Nothing special, but compared to the price my mechanic originally quoted me, I saved several hundred dollars

 

[BodylessSHO]

PFC's are good brakes, but they dust like crazy. You'll find yourself cleaning your wheels a lot more.

 

[Wess]

Well it's been a while, but I'm going with the Ford Pads P/N XF3Z-2001-CB at the advice of Mr. Nimz and the "cheapest, crappiest, Chineseiest rotors" I could find at AZ, the valuecraft ones. We'll see what happens. Thanks for the help!

 

[Mr. SHO]

I used EBC Greenstuff pads w/ Brembo rotors at the first brake swap on the SHO. Now I'm using PFCMs and Valucraft rotors. The PFCMs are wearing just as quickly as the Greenstuffs (I never get more than 15K out of my pads) so they'll be long gone before my 2-year warranty is up. I'm still not sure if I want to stick w/ the PFCMs for free, or go back to the EBCs, which rocked but were expensive.

I know, for sure, that I'll never buy expensive rotors again. The Brembos turned blue and cracked under hard braking (and I can't help but be ******* the brakes!)

 

[SHOtimer]

Well, I don't have a Gen III, but I have the '96 upgrade on my '95 so I will chime in. I used cheap AZ rotors with the Ford OEM pads 20k ago, and the pads arn't even half-way worn yet, the rotors look great (and they have a lot of 120mph stops on them), and they dust very minimally.

Doug

 

[SHO Continental]

I warped the rotors on my '93 pretty badly a while back, Bob (jedhead) rode in it while they were warped so he can chime in if he wants to confirm this.. anyways I got a new set of rotors from autozone, they were the duralast not the valuecraft.. that was last feb. and they were warped by september, but then I'm pretty ******* brakes. I was just doing a '96 upgrade a week ago on that car and a slider pin on one of the 11.6 brackets was bad but since I'd put on the knuckles I went for 10.9s same as '94-95 brakes. I got the cheapest set of pads I could until my new brackets arrive.. the valuecrafts, even with that pad downgrade, the bigger rotor, caliper, and SS lines still got the car to stop a lot faster, although after a few quick stops those pads are already faded so I wouldn't reccomend them to anyone who actually drives their SHO.