| Re: News to me: Race compound pads for stock C4 brakes. |
Subject: Re: News to me: Race compound pads for stock C4 brakes. by BillH on 2008/8/16 14:58:22 I mentioned "overusing" mainly because of the brake duct thing. But I see it all the time at HPDE's. You're right about slowing down too much and I see this a lot along with braking way too early, braking for turns where it's not needed. A lot of it comes from running poor lines (which I see in the intermediate and advances groups). Most of the HPDE drivers don't threshold brake, so they're on the brakes for a longer time. I think this is why there's a lot of complaints about the heat. You're also right about running mismatched pads. It's done all the time. You see it a lot in the NASA classes. Even with the specs and curves, you'll still have to test the pad combination to see if it works for your style. And, yea, it's expensive. But it always is when you go to the track. Two years ago on the test day before the 25 Hours of ThunderHill, the driver of an Acura that I was crewing for came in with the complaint of the rear hopping under heavy braking (rear bias). The crewchief had the PFC specs and decided to go with a different compound on the rears. The driver went out and put the car off the track twice with the fronts locking up a little too much. We switched to another combination and the driver was comfortable. |
