Brake Discs: Drilled & Vented, is $95/ea too much? Options

[Scott Carlberg]

So I received this catalog from FVD-usa.com, mostly 911 stuff, but I've wanted to check out their catalog for sometime...

Anyway, on page 101 of their catalog, they list "Drilled Brake Discs" for the 914,
Front & Rear. They are $95/ea

if you go here: http://www.fvd-web.com/phpkatalog/index.php3?lang=usa

then put this part #: fvd 351 08 and then enter
the Rear # is fvd 352 07



Yes, I know, the picture has 5-lug, but the catalog does list the 914-4 separately from the 914-6

[Curvie Roadlover]

I feel that drilled solid disks are useless. Drilled vented disks have some use, but even then I feel that they are more for looks than any actual benefit on a street car.

--DD

Absolutely true!
Drilled rotors have no benefit. They WILL crack prematurely. They're only manufactured by the brake companies to satisfy customers who insist on them and don't know about their lack of benefit and proneness to cracking. Just about all racing sanctioning bodies outlaw them (Excluding bikes but in the case of bikes they're drilled for weight reduction and heat dissipation isn't so important) due to their tendency to crack. For a great source of info on brakes go to the Stoptech tech pages for more info than you ever could want.