Miata owners.....should this be a suprise?

I mean y ou guys should really talk to this kid From this post, he's actually doing a cool rebuild. http://www.orlandoforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=106664

what is this about: from poster robr:

" Honestly, I've had the best luck with the Napa blanks. If you get the right ones (can't remember if it's the "premium" or ultra-premium" right now, sorry), they are Brembo blanks. Last time I bought them (just before I moved down here not even a month ago), they were $24 each...for Brembo blanks. I had a set for the street and a set for the track. But with good ducting, they really are more than you should need on the track, let alone the street - especially FL roads . "

it just seems unlikely that whatever facility makes brembo brakes, would then sell blanks to napa (i'm assuming a blank is a rotor with no holes: crossdrilled/slotted/lugs?), correct me if i am wrong. i've also never heard about brembo blanks on the grassrootsmiatasports webpage, the first place brembo blanks should be featured.

also do posts really need to be marked with a 56k warning? I'm assuming everyone that is still on 56k just assumes everything will be slow?

I always figured the pads to be more important than the rotors, unless you got some uber ceramic 100-percent fadeproof units. I could be wrong, though.

I have brembo blanks on the teg rear disks on my 86 Si. o'reilly's sells brembo blanks, as thats what I also put on my moms avalon, and my g/f's altima along with hawk HPS on both. blank is another way of saying stock replacement, no holes/slots.

Don't tell anyone, but my Seven uses cheap NAPA rotors. And really good pads. And it'll out-brake a Carrera GT.

I know that Brembo makes the blanks for Powerslot rotors, don't know about NAPA.

I put the cheapest Napa rotors on everything. Tru-Stop, I think they are called. I've used them on my Sentra, Miata, 328i, Dad's G20 and CR-V, and never had a problem with any of them. The most I have ever paid for any of them was $24.99 each for the BMW front rotors. The Miata was $12 for the front rotor and $15 for the rear. I can't figure why someone would pay double that or more just so he can say they came in a red box. Brembo's reputation is understandable, but it's based on the high-performance systems they make, not the round hunks of iron that slow down anonymous street cars.

Truth. On the Spec Miata I use the cheapest rotors I can find and the best pads I can find/be happy with. Rotors are disposable and get replaced at the end of the season. Sometimes I can get generics from Moe/Sam/PeppyBoys House for under $15 each.

Oddly, on the street car daily driver, where the rotors have to last a bit longer, I tend to go with the name brand stuff. Typically I can get decent Brembos for around $60 a pop. But those rotors have to see a much tougher life than the race car (extremes of temperature, environment, time in use) and it is worth the investment to me.

Pads (currently Carbotech soon to try BHP) are waaaaay more expensive!

Keith and Josh. What pads are you using? Thanks,

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I'm driving a 1300 lb car :) Carbotech XP8.

I'm autocrossing in STS2, so my pad choice is probably not ideal for any other situation (I'm on a pretty stiff suspension and street tires) I am using a generic Napa pad in front and Axxis Ultimates in the rear. I would just lock up the fronts with the Ultimates all around. If I were on stickier tires, cared about fade resistance, or allowed to adjust the bias somehow I wouldn't be using this combo, but it works for my purposes.