Didn't really need an 'engineer' to tell us what we already know: cross-drilled rotors do help improve brake performance - even if only marginally. While it's easy to say: "hey, Tony, if you want cross-drilled rotors, you need to get a bigger rotor to compensate for the missing surface area", it's much harder to accomplish.
After ~ 5 days, I can say this: the EBC (http://www.ebc-brakes.com) brake pads do not seem to increase braking performance over oem pads but they dust a LOT less. They have not squealed what-so-ever after ~ 600 miles of stop/n/go Los Angeles traffic. For a pictorial:
http://www.tsj-freight.com/jpg/thchen/cars/300ce/brakejob
I purchased the EBC pads from
http://www.brakeco.com, the cross drilled rotors from:
http://www.racetechnologies.com YMMV!!!
[Edited by TonyC on 12-21-2000 at 02:32 AM]