adm,
To echo what others have already said here...If you are heating your brakes so badly that you require drilled or slotted rotors, you are over-driving your brakes on the street...and that will eventually get you into trouble. What works on a race track does not necessarily work for a street vehicle.
The only reason most people put drilled and slotted rotors on their street driven cars is because they LOOK COOL, and they may think that if race cars use them to keep their brakes cool, it will work better for their street driven cars...That is just a myth. If you need racing brakes on the street, you are driving way over your head and are a danger to everyone on the road with you. If you are driving in a normal civilized matter with racing brakes, you may actually have less stopping power because racing brakes perform better only when heated up...so unless you made enough stops before you encounter an emergency, you may actually have very poor braking power because your racing brakes are not warmed yet.
Your truck stops fine now, not because you have drilled rotors, but because you changed to a much better brake pad material. Also note that Ceramic pads are not recommended for Towing. You probably would have got as much braking power with OEM rotors, so the drilled rotors were just an added expense...but they do look cool.
...Rich
