Dust shields on brake rotors

[DGajre777]

I just bought these on ebay for $250.

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They are Brembo rotors, the same ones sold on www.sportbrakes.com. I will be getting PBR Metal Master brake pads for these too.

My question is, Can I remove the dust shields behind all my rotors and trash them?

I don't drive my car on dirt roads, grass or on sand. My car is driven only on concrete roads. I think that the additional cooling on the other side of the rotor will help the brakes cool a lot more. I did a search for "remove dust shield" and did not find any useful information.

Anyone ever do this?

 

[Splitpi]

May I suggest you look into EBC Greenstuff brake pads? I am running them on the "Brembo" rotors you purchased aswell. But just FYI, brembo does not make a slotted AND crossdrilled rotor. They were added afterwords by another place to brembo basic line of solid rotors. These also have the basic vanes internal to the rotor versus brembos top of the line which act like a fan. With that said, they work just great for me and look great too. The zinc coating is holding up well too.

 

[DGajre777]

Too late, I bought some PBR ceramic pads last week. I know that brembo doesn't make a slotted and crossdrilled rotor, according to sport brakes.com they CNC machined regular brembo rotors.

 

[turbosax2]

How are people eliminating the dust shields? I have brand new knuckles, wheel bearings, and brake rotors, and I decided to NOT use the dust shields. After bolting the caliper bracket on, I immediately noticed that the bracket was rubbing the rotor. I finally realized that this happened because of the lack of dust shields, which act as a spacer because they get sandwiched between the knuckle and the caliper bracket and push the caliper bracket out far enough that it doesn't rub the rotor. So I'm curious how people can eliminate them without this happening, or what did you do to solve the problem. I considered using washers as spacers but I'm worried that unless I get the *perfect* thickness washer then I'll have issues. Or just hack up the dust shield and use just the portion I need to space out the caliper.

Somewhat related question: should the rotor sit exactly in the middle of the caliper bracket? Even with the dust shields in place on my old knuckles, the rotor sits closer to the outside of the caliper bracket.

 

[DGajre777]

Maybe the 99s are different but my dust shields were thin and did not act as a spacer, I don't have ABS on my car.