Is this a good brake combination?

[Shaguar47]

You won't believe this but i received the supposed brembo rotors from summit racing today and when i open the box, there's the brand Qualitee plastered all over the rotors. I checked everything to make sure that they were brembo but nothing at all said it was them. So i go online to search the brembo blanks for my civic and behold they aren't there anymore. It's funny cause the night i ordered them, i saw them on their website in full view with the correct item #.

So I call them up and ask about this whole situation and the customer service woman says that she can't find any brembo rotors of any sort for any hondas. She said that they actually stopped carrying them. I told her that i ordered them with the brembo blank for my hatch clearly on the site and after looking herself, she said that they aren't carried. Instead, they actually gave me qualitee rotors which is the cheapest brand they carry and they are actually for an acura legend.

Now I'm pissed cause i have no brembos for my civic and it sucks that my order just so happened to be when they quit carrying them. It sucks for me but it also sucks for all you future buyers cause all i've read about is how people buy them off summit all the time. Guess i'll have to find some other place. What other places sell brembo blanks? Take a look for yourself on their site. Could be that i'm going crazy or something.

[90civicrider]

www.brembo.com - Thats where I purchased both the front and back packages... The rear conversion will be completed sooN!

If they are real brembos they will have "Brembo" engraved on the very top edge of the rotor.

[turtlecrxsi]

Qualitee is Brembo. It's okay!

[Shaguar47]

Originally Posted by turtlecrxsi

Qualitee is Brembo. It's okay!

It is? From what i've looked at, it's a completely different brand.

[Shaguar47]

Well, maybe i did get a little mad about all this but I looked this situation over. I've been reading forums and found that people like me have been experiencing the same problem. Some people say that if it's a true brembo blank, the have brembo stamped on them. Others say that it's just a badged generic rotor with qualitee using the name brembo when it really isn't a true brembo rotor.

Should i go ahead and try them out and see? My only fear is that money is tight right now and I kinda blew my paycheck on these brakes and was hoping for it all to be a smooth process. I hope they won't warp like my more expensive raybestos rotors did in the past. Should i put them on?

[johnb16a2]

I would just send everything back and start over. I just got Brembo slotted rotors (they came in a Brembo box and have the Brembo logo machined on to the hat section) and Hawk HPS pads from www.tirerack.com but have not had a chance to install them yet (they also list Brembo blanks for our cars and the customer service is very good). But I have read this combo is almost guaranteed to squeak. But they carry other types of pads.

My question is why are your rotors warping so fast? Possibly the calipers are not moving freely (ie dragging, dry slide pins?), possible the booster is faulty and appling the brakes a bit, or the brake hoses are collapsing and not letting the piston ease off? Please keep us posted.

[Tony]

yea, i would look into the rest of your brake system too if you are warping rotors quick. They shouldn't be warping that quick.

[Shaguar47]

About a year ago my original rotors on the car when i bought it where becoming warped and we had just put new pads on it. So i ordered some Raybestos PG Plus or something and put them on but didn't change the pads. After 3 weeks of driving, they started to become warped again. I have a feeling that I should've changed the pads as well or none of the warping would've happened.

Well, yesterday was such a nice day and i really didn't want to crap around with the unknown rotors, i just went ahead and put them on. The only problem we ran into where the two screws that hold the rotor on the hub. They were becoming horribly stripped. So we went out to a hardware store and bought some new ones. Went back and got the right side done. As we were taking the left side wheel off, one of the screws on the rotor just fell out. My first thought was wow, maybe this is why my rotors were warped. So we took all the left side apart and everything fit right up. Took her out and she brakes pretty good, but i still don't know how well since i'm breaking the pads in very gently.

[Tony]

Those screws aren't that big of a deal really, they just keep the rotor secure when your wheel isn't on there. Because if you really think about it, what are 2 little screws gonna do over 4 lug nuts holding a wheel to your hub, sandwiching the rotor between? And I hope you don't do too much driving without any wheels on, lol. I mean, yes, its a good precaution to have them in, but it isn't going to do any harm in not having them in there.

but yea, you should have changed your pads when you changed rotors. Its always a good thing to change things in pairs like rotors and pads.

[crx2034]

i had EBC greenstuff on some generic cross drilled rotors. I must be lucky because i never had any cracking isues at all. I broke them in properly and then some. I used to autocross and those brakes were awsome. I put the same pads on my wifes 02 civic but kept the same stock rotors. the EBC pads are very good pads. braking was better.
by the way, what is the biggest master cylynder swap that can be put into a 91 crxsi? i heard integra is good. What are the biggest rotors? I have 15 inch 99 civic si rims and want to keep them but increase braking to the max without breaking my bank. are 99 civic si rotors a stright swap? i like to keep with all stock honda parts from different hondas or acuras

[Tony]

Alright, the problem with swapping to a bigger rotor, is you have to have an adapter bracket made to fit the caliper around it. I'm unsure if you can swap the 99 Caliper over to the EF or not, it would be worth a shot. If that won't work, then you would have to get a bracket made, which could cost some $$ if you go and have one CNC'd, which would be the best bet.

I never had a problem with my EBC's, they just grabbed ahold of the rotor way too fast and locked up too easy IMO. I don't know for sure if the teg master cylinder will fit or not, but I could probably do some research tomorrow if I get a chance. Ofcourse the first thing you want to check is where the bolt holes are on it, then check and see what the bore size is on it, which is usually stamped in the side right below the reservior. LIke I said, ill try to check it tomorrow, because thats something worth looking into.

[C8H18Blood]

Yeah the tiny squeaks are worth it for that extra bite. As far as brake upgrades, I really wanna get some nice 4 or maybe even 6 (6 is kinda rediculous for crx i know)piston calipers to improve the brake control/feel. But even replacing these damn drums would be nice.

[FrodoGT]

I hear that! Although, I havent noticed ANY problems with my drums...except Im not sure that they lock with the fronts...could just need new shoes, Ill have to take a look...They do brake well though, only because the car weighs nothing!

[C8H18Blood]

lol yeah im not sure they're doing anything unless i pull the E-brake

[FrodoGT]

Exactly...