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Old 07-09-2008, 03:00 PM
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Originally Posted by hoophead View Post
Similar experience here: I got a whopping 7 track days on my last set of 930 drilled rotors with the 97s. Unfortunately there are no reasonably priced non-drilled alternatives. I've switched to pagid yellows to see if that helps.

It's been theorized by someone much smarter than me that the 97s work well as a small pad, e.g. carrera, but in large pad form they generate too much heat and crack the rotors.
SC has 951 calipers up front. Carrera rotors last ~2 seasons before small cracks grow.
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