AC Delco Dura Stop Brake Upgrade

[Gorgon]

Anyone have any experience with these? They are a cross-drilled and slotted rotor with ceramic pad brake upgrade for the C5. With the go fast goodies already installed on this car I was thinking they would be a nice upgrage over the stock brakes.

Leon

 

[bluecoupe]

I was told to save my money that the stock rotors are just as good as the GM performance rotors and less prone to cracking.

 

[tpreston]

I just had the Dura Stop ceramic pads only installed on my 2002 last week. They stop great and there is no brake dust. Not the bugs on the front end is the hard part to wash. The pads are available at Ecklers. My GM dealer put them on for me since I was too busy to do it and they said they change many of the pads for customers.

 

[Gorgon]

That's an idea also, I oould just install the ceramic pads without the slotted and drilled rotors and install stock rotors. I'd love nothing more than reduced the amount of brake dust on the rims.

Leon

 

[tpreston]

I do this to all my cars that I can buy ceramic pads for. It only takes 30 minutes or so to do it. No more dust and the stopping power isat least as good if not better.

 

[James Lopez]

ceramic pads

Do the Ceramic pads reduce the life of the rotors ??

 

[tpreston]

Ceramic pads

I can't imagine the rotors wearing any more than stock pads. Even if they did I would do it just to have the car look nice all the
time. This has to be worth something! It seems to stop just as well and there is not any noise when stopping.

 

[cavettefan]

James Lopez, I have had ceramic pads on my 2001 Yukon Denali for over 27,000 miles, and I would almost say that the ceramic pads have increased the life of the rotors. (The rotors are still within factory tolerances.) I do not have a benchmark for non-ceramic pads on the Denali; so, therefore the reason for my hesitance at making the comment about increasing the life of the rotors.

Getting to the point of this thread, I also have the ceramic pads on my Coupe, and the improvement in braking is around 10 feet shorter stopping distance from 60 - 0. I have no regrets about installing the ceramic pads. Going with the drilled and slotted rotors is a personal decision. If there is a warranty against cracking, then it gets more persuasive to go with the rotor swap.