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Yummmm. When are you planning on installing them?

 

how much did the rotors run?

 

EXCELLENT CHOICE on parts! Porterfield r4-s! you're going to love them!
It might take a week or two of bedding in for you to fully feel the carbon-kevlar
to it's full potential. Just letting you know, I had them before and it took a little bit of
time to bed them in. But once they did, wow! They lasted about 50k miles on my
old car, before they needed to be replaced. Yeah I'm not kidding they're that good!
Minimal dust, high bite, just a great pad.

Glad you got some! Maybe I'll have someone else here who knows how good these
things really are! And yes the rotors look great too!

keep us posted how it goes!

 

one question though.. i see porterfield's catalog for
the Celica GTS which I think the tC shares it's brakes with.
The fronts are AP817 but they list AP823 for the rear.
not the number i see in your pics.

Did they change the rear pad for the tC?
Were you able to confirm this with Porterfield?

 

where did you bought the brake pads from?

 

Okay so Porterfield made pads for the 06 tC, that's understandable. I was trying to
understand..you provided the Toyota part number and then Porterfield was able to
cross reference with Porterfield's part number? Trying to understand. Thanks.

And are the pads on the 07 tC that different from the 06 tC?

 

Very nice, I have StopTech Rotors and SS Lines on my car as well.

BTW, take the pic outta yer sig.

 

^^ so you still didn't answer me about what you're saying with the toyota oem part numbers? What does that have to do with Porterfield and THEIR part numbers??! Im confused..

 

^^ oh thanks now i understand what you did thanks for explaining it.
makes perfect sense. and let us know how you like the r4-s.
Where did you hear about the r4-s pads?
I know I was recommending it like mad. lol

but you have an excellent setup there with what you chose!

 

awesome! Yeah I like their company too, very good. You're lucky you're so close to their offices! Is it a large place? Obviously me being in michigan I never knew, just knew that their service, and products were excellent.

Yeah I have yet to find another pad that matches the carbon-kevlar composition Porterfield came up with.

 

^^ cool thanks for the info

 

you paid that much for installation?? wow!! i couldve done it for you MUCH cheaper than that... or my friends shop.. prolly 75% off of that installation price... but other than that... looks good

 

Did you notice the area in between the black painted area and the pad contact area gets ugly surface rust after a rain and needs to be cleaned off?

Same with the grooves in the rotors, they get a tiny bit of surface rust in them.

I got the same exact rotors as you and this really peeves me. They look hot though, congrats

 

Yea the rust wipes off where the pad contacts the rotor, but theres 1/4 inch that the pad doesn't reach to that stays rusted.