so today i swaped the front and rear tires, as i do every 7000 miles together with an oilchange and check for wear on the brakes at the same time, the front pads needed changing, but also the rotor, left side had a crack from edge to the center:

and an other a bit smaller crack (same rotor)


so i was wondering what high quality performance parts are avalible for my 2005 dodge ram 2500 HD 5,9 cummins.

links are apriciated

 

wow you got those mothers hot

 

i sure did, don't know how, cant they hold up to a fast braking form 195 km/h (120 miles/h) a couple of times a month. (315/70r17 tires)

my trailers have own brakes (well not those below 1000 lbs) but otherwise the have their own brakes.

so it must be my fast driving and hard braking, (when i play around) but in my world that shouldn't do that, that kind of damage to the rotors i feel should only occur on a track or something.

 

Go to jegs.com they have good stuff andI have ordered from them many times.

 

wow! how many miles on the truck?

 

Moe's performance and NAPA has some good deals on premium rotors that got great reviews around here

 

30k miles

and i just found out that brembo makes rotors and pads. i am going to try getting a price on that, and i will visit jegs afterwords

 

Brembo is top of the line, but I would avoid the drilled rotors and just get slotted or plain ones.
High speed braking (120mph) on a heavy truck will crack drilled rotors fast.
If you do that alot,you'll need racing brakes. I would see what you could do tofit the ones from the Ram SRT10 (biggerrims needed?)or the brake cooling ducts it has.

If you still are having cracking problems in the future, cryogenically treated rotors may be worth a try. In theory, they will be less likely to crack.

 

yes brembo is probably the best i can find.

i actually found one site were they said that drilled rotors was better at keeping cracks from going all the way out to the edge, something with stress relieving, i don't know, but i was actually also more interested in the slotted version.

i just feel that braking from 120 mph once in a wile, maybe once a week at tops, should not do that, so i am just looking for something better that stock.
its not like its repeated hard braking, from high speed. that would probably make them glow red and fail pretty fast.

going for SRT10 brakes is maybe a little overkill (not that it is not nice to have), and i don't like to have to change my rims, i already have 4 new tires waiting when the ones i have will be worn down, (15-20k miles)

 

Cardude, what size tires are you running? The bigger the tire the more wear and tare you put on your brake system also. If you have some big tires and you are making your truck stop from a pretty high rate of speed that would be the reason right there of why your roters gave out like that.