Victoria British Rotors

So Far So good

Two customers have mounted them and have no complaints (limited road use). In support of Long Motors, I have to say that they have never failed to replace or refund for defective and/or " Not acceptable quality". It remains to be seen if some hard use will point out problems.
 
VB has the rotors back in stock, they are made in England. I picked two up today with new pad for $245.

Spent a couple of hours installing them. What a PITA to have to R&R the hubs, WTH was Rootes thinking?

Took it for a test drive and now have a high frequency shutter when brakeing bad enough to vibrate the wheel. Happens when lightly applying the brakes but seems to reduce greatly if I get on the brakes hard.

Either I did something wrong on the install or one of the new rotors is warped. Will take a look tomorrow.

Any personal advice or experiance?
 
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I have had to cars with warped rotors and it did the same thing, or at least it sounds like the same thing.:(
 
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Both rotors have a runout of .006....max by the book is .004. Gonna get them turned.

NICE QUALITY! NOT!
 
PITA Yes, BUT.

Before you start chopping off valuable thickness: We have been to this parade more than a few times. I know it will eat up some time, BUT, rotate the rotors 90 deg. on the hub and re-mic them. And again to the 180 deg. bolt hole. Some brake shops have the neat little toy that will turn a rotor "on the hub" and correct the entire run that may just be compounding from a hub defect.
 
PS

Vic Brit (Long Motors) has a firm quality claim. It helps us all if you notify them to a defect. A few years back, they had a compound mix defect with the A-arm bushings (as did Mustangs Unlimited). Thanks to the claims from faithful consumers, the compounds are darned good quality at present.
 
0neoffive said:
Before you start chopping off valuable thickness: We have been to this parade more than a few times. I know it will eat up some time, BUT, rotate the rotors 90 deg. on the hub and re-mic them. And again to the 180 deg. bolt hole.
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PITA is right - I'll give it a go on one side and if it works, will do the other. Good thing I have some beer in the garage!
 
No dice.....still out of speck after rotating them. I had them turned and they had to take ~.030 off of both of them to get the warp out. I will be calling BV on Monday to let them know. They are still much thicker than the rotors I took off the car.
 
Bummer!

That's a pretty good bite out of a brandy new rotor. Must be casting them out of 1960's Fosters beer cans . . . . . . .
 
Install complete. Brakes smooth as glass.

That was easy........................................NOT! :mad:
 
Any follow up on these rotors? I was reading something from 1999 about their rotors being thin in the area where it bolts to the hub. Some of them were breaking in autocross or track use. Not a problem for street only, but I may get back into open track events.

I want to replace my front rotors,cause they're quite thin. Any recommendations or thoughts would be appreciated.

Victoria British is still listing them. Also Dale shows a 10.5" (I think) Wilwood kit. Don't know if it works with 13" rims.

thanks, Mat
 
Still on the car and work as well as OEM can. Definatly going to wilwoods this winter once I have larger wheels.
 
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