Hey don,

I’m sure the rotors for the van are listed on brake performance website, in plain and drilled.

I have the drilled and slotted ( curved grooves rather than slots).

You know I do a lot of logging road travel, and steep hills. This year, for one reason or another, we haven’t got out  yet so I can’t report on brake performance on the 20% hills.

I can only say that during day to day, city and Hwy, I like the brake feel and effect. Not an immediate grab, but a very assured progressive feel.

Yeah I had heard same about the holes... and I thought I’d never have them. But as I said, these were a gift and I swallowed my reservations.

I’ll also re state that II think the trw pads are doing the job.

Cheers

Alistair 

> On Jun 24, 2019, at 8:10 AM, Dan N <dn92610@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> hi Alistair,
> 
> this is good info... I plan to switch front rotors to either slotted ones or cross drilled ones but I can't find the source of suppliers... In general I am happy with OEM since I have modest HP with the 2.1 WBX.. but once in a while I take the Syncro out on a trail or logger road and going very steep down hill.. errr I smell the brake and it's fading a bit though that I use 2st gear going down...
> 
> so what do you have -  slotted ones or cross drilled ones?
> did you ever try prolonged use of the brakes yet?
> 
> btw.. I heard that cross drilled ones are not as performant as regular OEM ones, I am not sure it's true or not...
> 
> thanks
> 
> dan
> 
>> On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 7:49 AM Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
>> A couple of months ago I popped on new front rotors and pads in my 86 Syncro. I didn’t  really need to, the old ones still had some life in them. But I was given a set of grooved and cross drilled rotors, and while I always wanted to get a big brake set up, and I was skeptical of the merits of the grooves and holes :-), I decided to give them a go.
>> 
>> The rotors are made in California by Brake Performance, and had some sort of coating that’s supposed to reduce rusting on the un worn surfaces.
>> 
>> Brake pads are locally sourced, TWR, I just asked Dave at Dave’s Automotive to get me the ones he uses in stock vanagon brakes.
>> 
>> Nothing to mention on install except the direction of the curved grooves on the rotors.
>> 
>> Did a half assed job with the bedding in routine, you know, all to speed then brake, speed brake , repeat...
>> 
>> Oh boy was I worried, the brakes did not work well. Then after a bit they started to bed in. Over the next couple of days they improved.
>> 
>> I can say the combo is really quite good. Very much better than what I had before. Very nice progressive braking action.
>> 
>> I can’t say if that has anything to do with the rotor design, I’ll guess not. It’s probably mostly pads. And I can’t report on any long hot braking action.
>> But the brakes are better than I’ve ever had in this van.
>> 
>> Cheers
>> 
>> Alistair