New brake pads and rotors, which ones? Options

[6strngs]

Alright, my car has been in need of some new brakes for a while now, I figure it's time I get some in, especially since my uncle who is coming out for christmas said he would help me install them. Anyway, I want to go with a cross-drilled or a drilled and slotted rotor. I saw the drilled/slotted rotors on nopi, but they're pretty expensive. I also saw some on irotors.com that were only $229 for the front and back. (plus an extra $50 for zinc plating on them, but I figure that that is only for rust protection, and since I live in cali, rusting rotors really isn't a problem. so I shouldn't need the zinc plating, right?) so, does anyone know if they are any good?

And I don't know what kind of pads to get. I've heard good and bad about EBC greenstuff pads. And I've heard that Hawk pads were pretty good. I want something that can be used on my daily driver, but are an upgrade from stock that will hold up to aggressive braking, and possibly even autocrossing one day. I don't really know the pros/cons of ceramics vs. regular pads so I don't know which I need.

thanks in advance for any help!

[Kadett]

as far as I know, you can change your pads/rotors without even opening up the brake line.

True.

and when you do install braided lines, you are only replacing the solid straight lines that run down the car, and not the short flexible pieces that connect to the caliper itself.

Not true. They replace the flexible part. The real benifit of them is they don't expand like the OEM rubber lines causing additional time/effort to apply braking pressure. You will notice that the braided ones seem to work more "positively" or just brake quicker/easier. Hard to explain but i loved the ones I installed on the 4th gen and it's def in the works for when I start my brake upgrade project.

What he said:

When you brake hard the Brake Oil will go hot and make your rubber flexibel brake lines soft. So instead of only pumping the oil to your calipers they will also expand a bit. With steel braided lines you dont have this effect thus it mean you have a straighter brake feel.