When you replace the rings, do you reuse any of the hardware? Curious if 2 ring hardware is one time or reusable.OEM Rotors cost more than Giro's no? ~350/rotor + shipping. Giro replacement rings are 300/ring.
Giro seemed like the right move for cost and benefit. 8 days into the season, plenty of life left, and barely any heat checking. Value prop is definitely there. Paired with CSG pads -- no dreaded Brownbos.
I'm hardly an expert, but I've been tracking every few months for about a year now, and I do exactly what you're talking about. On the street, I'm still running the OEM pads - my car has 10-11K miles on them, and even though it's my daily, I work from home, so the car doesn't see a ton of mileage. Those OEM pads still have a few thousand miles left, though the rears are starting to show their wear for sure because of the VSA. When I bought my track pads, I made sure to buy them pre-bedded. See (and again, not an expert), my research kind of leads me to believe that the whole idea of bedding to "mate a pad to a rotor" is kind of horseshit - I mean, that is kind of a thing, but the real reason you bed pads is to outgas them to get them into their ideal working form. Anyway, before my track days, I swap to my track pads (CarboTech XP10 front, XP8 rear, though I think I will go 10/10 next time). Immediately, the pads work fine, even on the rotors that were just being used with my OEM pads - they just start scraping off all the old pad because you're not getting them up to temp on the streets, so they're just hard metal on hard metal. Stopping power is there, though. I then drive several hours up to track, do my thing, drive several hours home, then change the pads back to OEM either that weekend or the following. At this point, the drive home has cleaned off any transfer layer that the track pads created because, again, not warm enough outside of the track. My OEM pads don't work fabulous when I first put them on, but a few nice stopping events and you're fine. Again though, stopping power is there from the get go.What’s your thought on OEM rotors and just changing pads. I’ve always been told pads should be mated to rotors so running OEM rotors with a set of track and OEM pads doesn’t seem optimal. That being said, OEM rotors are a solid $400 each so not a huge savings over Giro vs moving to Dixcel blanks.