Okay, so I'm doing the ROH conversion on my cb9. Of course whatever idiot who owned the car before me had on the 10.2" rotors with the cb9 calipers (very odd wear pattern they left on the old brake pads... Seeing how a good chunk of the pad never even touched the rotors).
Anyway, I got to the point of getting my rotor. Since I have the wagon which already has 25T brackets, I was about to get the rotors for a 99 3.0 Acura CL, which apparently uses the 25 mm rotors. Then of course I read the specifications and saw 'Nominal Thickness: .91"'. It only takes about 2 seconds to realize that .91" is 23 mm. In fact, the rotors for the Odysseys which are supposed to be 28 mm are also just 23 mm thick. And in addition to that, it seems that all the brackets that they sell are 25T brackets, regardless of what vehicle it is. In other words, O Reilly's, Napa, Autozone, Pep Boys, virtually every company out there is not selling their customers the right sized parts. Apparently they made one mold for brake rotors and decided that would be good enough for all cars. Or they figured that extra little bit of metal would be too expensive
Now, as soon as I read this crap how every manufacturer is making 2 mm undersized rotors (5 mm undersized if you drive an Odyssey, my parents (collective IQ: 7) started jumping on me about how obviously that's how they're supposed to be made cause otherwise people would notice and sue them out of existence and blah blah with their retarded crap. But, is it a good idea to just shut them up and run my 25T brackets with these 23 mm rotors? Even though they're supposed to be 25 mm? I'm getting bitched at to no end for not having had the ROH swap done within 4 minutes of starting it. So yah, am I likely to survive with the brackets being 2 mm larger than they're supposed to be? I can't get a hold of the right brackets anywhere at the moment, everyone is too stupid to sell the right stuff and I need my car back without spending more time I don't have trying to get it together.
Anyway, I got to the point of getting my rotor. Since I have the wagon which already has 25T brackets, I was about to get the rotors for a 99 3.0 Acura CL, which apparently uses the 25 mm rotors. Then of course I read the specifications and saw 'Nominal Thickness: .91"'. It only takes about 2 seconds to realize that .91" is 23 mm. In fact, the rotors for the Odysseys which are supposed to be 28 mm are also just 23 mm thick. And in addition to that, it seems that all the brackets that they sell are 25T brackets, regardless of what vehicle it is. In other words, O Reilly's, Napa, Autozone, Pep Boys, virtually every company out there is not selling their customers the right sized parts. Apparently they made one mold for brake rotors and decided that would be good enough for all cars. Or they figured that extra little bit of metal would be too expensive
Now, as soon as I read this crap how every manufacturer is making 2 mm undersized rotors (5 mm undersized if you drive an Odyssey, my parents (collective IQ: 7) started jumping on me about how obviously that's how they're supposed to be made cause otherwise people would notice and sue them out of existence and blah blah with their retarded crap. But, is it a good idea to just shut them up and run my 25T brackets with these 23 mm rotors? Even though they're supposed to be 25 mm? I'm getting bitched at to no end for not having had the ROH swap done within 4 minutes of starting it. So yah, am I likely to survive with the brackets being 2 mm larger than they're supposed to be? I can't get a hold of the right brackets anywhere at the moment, everyone is too stupid to sell the right stuff and I need my car back without spending more time I don't have trying to get it together.
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