A little DIY brake help please

[matteni]

Last weekend I swapped out:

Front Rotors with Aero Rotors
Rear with Dali Slotted
Brake pads with Axxis Ultimate

I bleed the brakes with ATE Superblue and followed the Aero instructions for bedding them in. Basically I did 6 80-5-80 cycles as stated in the instructions to bed in the brake pad to the rotor.

I am getting some squeal from the rear brakes (not a constant) but based on wheel rotation and a VERY slight shutter in the pedal.

Also interesting to note:

- I have washed the car and all the pad material out of the brakes/wheels (not when the car was hot of course).

- The fronts had the brake shims but the rears did not.

- I used the Honda high temp grease per the service manual on all the shims and the clips that press into the calipers.

- The rotors still look VERY new with very little visible pad deposit on the rotors themselves.

- The Axxis pads don't yet have the initial "bite" I am expecting and had with the Hawk pads I came from

- The pedal feels a little "soft" compared to my previous Hawk/Dali drilled rotors

Any ideas?

- Should I try to re-do/inspect the pads?

- Should I re-bleed the fluid?

- Might I need some shims for the rear pads?

Thanks gang!

 

[Kinan]

Do these rotors have that real soft metal protecting the real rotor material???
I had a lot of problems with excess plating when I installed mine.
Easy way I found to check is try to scratch the rotor surface with a screwdriver or something. If it scratches easily, still not down to the real rotor yet. It its the rotor, couldn't scratch it if I tried.
I ended up removing the rotors and scraping it all off by hand.
The stuff seemed too thick.
No problems since then.

 

[matteni]

It seems to have some sort of rust coating that makes it look real silver as opposed to the cast iron look.

Do I need to scrape this off?

Anyone else have this problem with the Aero rotors?

Do these rotors have that real soft metal protecting the real rotor material???
I had a lot of problems with excess plating when I installed mine.
Easy way I found to check is try to scratch the rotor surface with a screwdriver or something. If it scratches easily, still not down to the real rotor yet. It its the rotor, couldn't scratch it if I tried.
I ended up removing the rotors and scraping it all off by hand.
The stuff seemed too thick.
No problems since then.

 

[Kinan]

I scraped mine off with one of those 2" razor type scrapers for glass. Not the small safety razor kind. It came off real easy.
It left a thin film that the rotors could then take off easily.

PIA to have to do this but the nice part is the rest of the rotor stays nice and clean -- no rust anywhere.