What was on my lift tonight...
 

One THICK ass pair of brake rotors: 357USD EACH, Minimum allowable thickness:30.4 MM. these rotors are about 30.3MM, the new ones are a bit thicker :wink:

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One of the new ones:
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the wheel it goes behind :D :twisted:

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HEELLLLOOOOOO :D

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And the best part of it is..i have to drive it tomorrow :D i'll catch a little vid of it for the DL group. i can't drive it really hard since it has new front pads/rotors and new rear pads, but you'll still here the sound of the engine :mrgreen:

awsome zfrks62! what a fun job :-D 357 for rotors... how many miles are those recomended for use? (cirtainly, if tracked, less miles)

damn, those rotors are thick. $357? damn! are they factory supplied rotors?

well, this car has 41,000 on her, so i figure she's on her second or third set of brakes by now. I usually see brakes last about 15-20,000 miles. rotors are generally worn to limit each time, unless they are really light on their brakes, then they might make it two rounds of pads. but usually BMWs rotors are too soft to extend past 20,000.

Sucks balls when you have to pay for them, but that's the trade of for having excellent brakes.

But this guy is kind of nursing a bruised wallet (or will be when he pays for the car) and is wishing he got the extended maintenence plan :lol:

and yes ferrarifan, these are oem rotors, seeing as how i work for a dealership :wink:

wow you lucky ass!!! i want to drive that BEAST!!!

hey, keep it in your pants, buddy! :wink:

^^that one isnt a beast that one is like GODZILLA! :lol: :lol: :lol:

are you really that lonely? :wink:

:lol:

$357.. ;) kinda pricey... considering I can get all 4 rotors for my Z06 at $240 INCLUDING shipping and I still have better braking.. :) :P

good to see you too RC. i thought the boards were getting a bit quiet :wink:

I've never driven a vette let alone a Z06, and i've only had the M5 around the block to confirm a tire imbalance, so i really couldn't intelligently argue with you over the performance characteristics. but at least in the M5 i can still get all my groceries home in one trip :P :)

He's right though.
Me driving an A6 4.2 testing the Quattro system for school is driving a beast the M5 is like Godzilla.

Just a little update.. i captured the video, and it caught the sound pretty well. There's some background crap that i never heard on the drive but you can hear the engine pretty well.

i just need to edit it a little bit, i got another clip of it idling in my stall when i backed it out later in the day, gave it a gratutious rev :twisted: There's just something about hearing 5 liters of 11:1 compression growl, that gives me goosebumps :D

Unless anyone knows of free video hosting, i'll be posting it to the vault in the next day or so. :D

*edit* two things i forgot: i checked the estimate sheet again today, and the rotors were $345, not $357

and when you wath the video, i apologize for the shakeyness and off kilt frames at times, but i had to hold the camera ontop of the steering wheel with my left hand and shift with my right. Because of this, i accidently bounced the rev limiter twice. I wasn't watching the tach since the camera was blocking it.

hehe woops! :oops: thats ok tho, im sure it was great to get out and rev that M5...i am sure you cant wait till a new '05 comes in for service!

Damn, me dad wont be happy when his run out!
Nice to see the professional BMW service (videoing a rag) is kinda what i always thought it was. :wink: :P