Brake Upgrade

Anyone have any experience with upgrading rotors to drilled/slotted rotors? Any benefit with just the rotors alone? thanks

 

Drilled and/or slotted rotors are designed to dissipate heat caused by frequent high speed usage (like you would see on a track). Unless you are riding your breaks downhill, there isn't much need for that on our Tacomas.

However, if you want some because they look cool, I'm 100% behind that

If you are talking about swapping out the rear breaks to use disks, that is possible, but there are others here that would know much more about that than me.

 

I do a lot of mountain driving on the weekends. By the time I get to the bottom, my brakes feel like glass.

 

Maybe some more aggressive brake pads would help

 

Don't waste your time with slotted or drilled rotors, especially drilled rotors. If you do some research, you'll learn that when you drill the rotors, you lose around 20% or more of the thermal mass of the rotor, what this means is that it will heat up and cool down faster but is more susceptible to overheating if you're using them hard without letting them cool down in-between. Aka riding your brakes downhill.

If you're looking for better stopping distance, tires is the first thing to look at and then pads. If you want better feel, get some braided lines. The stock brakes have plenty of enough power to lock the wheels, the limiting factor is traction(tires).

 

I'll probably end up doing both. I think with the ventilation it will help with the glazing. The specialty pads eat away the rotors and themselves a lot quicker and make a mess as well as clogging up the slots and drill holes in the rotor. That's been my experience at least with my other "race" car.

 

Are you downshifting to a lower gear when going downhill? I hardly ever use my brakes downhill, I just use engine braking.

 

I do this thing called "driving too fucking fast and almost dying" on a regular basis. Engine braking wont save me.

 

Stock rotors are already vented.

 

Thanks. That's helpful

 

I would just put better brake pads in the front. And more performance oriented tires.