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thirdcoast
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OK, I looked very hard at the Wilwood & Baer systems, but did not think I would need this much braking as I am not going to do much more than some acceleration bursts and a bit of spirited driving around the hill country here in Texas (and Alaska next year)
So after a lot of research I am going with the Raybestos EHT Hybrid pads, which are Semi Metallic/Ceramic and the PER-300 Rotors F&R.
These rotors have degassing slots on the rotors and no drilling of the rotor. They do have a "Better PPV Rotor & Pad", but I did not want to deal with the dust of a pure semi-metallic pad like the EBC stuff I tried and took off.
I actually called and talked to one of Raybestos" engineers and he explained the metallurgy differences in the EHT & PPV rotors, which is what helped make my decision to go with the EHT products.
I looked into buying the AC Delco Specialty Performance Rotors as they are the Raybestos EHT product & I get jobber prices from a local AC Delco parts house. It is a bit odd though as AC Delco buys the rotors from Raybestos but uses their ceramic pads and not the EHT pads. However they could not match Rock Auto's price even though I get Jobber pricing.
All of the EHT products are available from Rock Auto and get our 5% discount, so I am going to order all of the parts at one time and get what I think is a good deal.
Total for F&R EHT rotors & EHT pads is $476.59 including freight & no tax.. I can not get that good of a deal from my local parts house using the AC Delco part #.
Anyway, that is what is going on my 6.2L Tahoe..
To answer the question of foreign metals, their metallurgy, heat treat etc. and my aversion to it, I worked as Global O&G Product Manager for the premier US roller chain manufacturer. For not being a metallurgist, I learned a lot about steel, how it should be made by the steel company and how the steel is made into parts my the product manufacturer and the differences between US steel & foreign, i.e. chinese & indian in particular. There are a lot of differences and none of them are good.
I currently build parts, both machined and cast, steel & synthetic, for a very specific piece of oilfield equipment and metallurgy as well as the synthetic makeup is paramount. My customers will not accept foreign steel products as they tend to fail at the most inopportune time and blow people into small peices since we are working with 5000 PSI to 20,000 PSI. Just my personal opinion, but each to his own.
Thirdcoast
So after a lot of research I am going with the Raybestos EHT Hybrid pads, which are Semi Metallic/Ceramic and the PER-300 Rotors F&R.
These rotors have degassing slots on the rotors and no drilling of the rotor. They do have a "Better PPV Rotor & Pad", but I did not want to deal with the dust of a pure semi-metallic pad like the EBC stuff I tried and took off.
I actually called and talked to one of Raybestos" engineers and he explained the metallurgy differences in the EHT & PPV rotors, which is what helped make my decision to go with the EHT products.
I looked into buying the AC Delco Specialty Performance Rotors as they are the Raybestos EHT product & I get jobber prices from a local AC Delco parts house. It is a bit odd though as AC Delco buys the rotors from Raybestos but uses their ceramic pads and not the EHT pads. However they could not match Rock Auto's price even though I get Jobber pricing.
All of the EHT products are available from Rock Auto and get our 5% discount, so I am going to order all of the parts at one time and get what I think is a good deal.
Total for F&R EHT rotors & EHT pads is $476.59 including freight & no tax.. I can not get that good of a deal from my local parts house using the AC Delco part #.
Anyway, that is what is going on my 6.2L Tahoe..
To answer the question of foreign metals, their metallurgy, heat treat etc. and my aversion to it, I worked as Global O&G Product Manager for the premier US roller chain manufacturer. For not being a metallurgist, I learned a lot about steel, how it should be made by the steel company and how the steel is made into parts my the product manufacturer and the differences between US steel & foreign, i.e. chinese & indian in particular. There are a lot of differences and none of them are good.
I currently build parts, both machined and cast, steel & synthetic, for a very specific piece of oilfield equipment and metallurgy as well as the synthetic makeup is paramount. My customers will not accept foreign steel products as they tend to fail at the most inopportune time and blow people into small peices since we are working with 5000 PSI to 20,000 PSI. Just my personal opinion, but each to his own.
Thirdcoast
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