Okay, I promised a report on how the brakes did at the track so here it is.
First, a picture of me out on the track
The StopTechs worked great! For some stupid reason I didn't listen to the advice of the StopTech guys and I did the track event on my street pads (Axxis Ultimates)... so I did get a tiny bit of fade, but the brakes were very very good even with me pushing very hard (chasing down and passing Corvette Z06s ). The track we were at was also very hard on brakes.
Because of my stupidity I did have a small problem though. When you keep pushing a pad when it's past it's max operating temp it starts to deposit uneven pad material on the rotor, which causes a nasty vibration. This happened on the 2nd session Saturday, so by Sunday afternoon the vibration had gotten pretty bad. The brakes still worked very well at slowing the car, but the whole car felt like it could shake to pieces. doh!
Here is a pic of what my rotors and pads looked like when I got home, you can see the deposits on the rotor pretty well:
Normally I would just take the rotors off and have them resurfaced to fix the problem, but StopTech advised me to try something different, as machining 2-piece floating rotors has a whole set of issues by itself. So they sent me some race pads (Hawk Blue 9012 to be exact). They told me that the Hawks were VERY abrasive to the rotor when they were not up to temp so I should put them in and do a couple hard stops, then cool the brakes, then do a couple more stops until the vibration went away. So that I did... and it was kinda scarey... it was night time and every time I laid on the brakes, showers of sparks poured out of the front wheels!! :shocked I wish I had my video camera on me, it must have been a strange sight from the side of the road!! To make an already long story short, the race pads did their magic and the vibration went away and all I had to do was repeat the bedding-in procedure for my street pads and the brakes are back to 100% once again. And I learned my lesson and will DEFINITELY be using race pads when I go to the track next time!
I give StopTech an A+ for an awesome product, and an A++++++ for their EXCELLENT customer support! :xyxthumbs
First, a picture of me out on the track
The StopTechs worked great! For some stupid reason I didn't listen to the advice of the StopTech guys and I did the track event on my street pads (Axxis Ultimates)... so I did get a tiny bit of fade, but the brakes were very very good even with me pushing very hard (chasing down and passing Corvette Z06s
). The track we were at was also very hard on brakes. Because of my stupidity I did have a small problem though. When you keep pushing a pad when it's past it's max operating temp it starts to deposit uneven pad material on the rotor, which causes a nasty vibration. This happened on the 2nd session Saturday, so by Sunday afternoon the vibration had gotten pretty bad. The brakes still worked very well at slowing the car, but the whole car felt like it could shake to pieces. doh!
Here is a pic of what my rotors and pads looked like when I got home, you can see the deposits on the rotor pretty well:
Normally I would just take the rotors off and have them resurfaced to fix the problem, but StopTech advised me to try something different, as machining 2-piece floating rotors has a whole set of issues by itself. So they sent me some race pads (Hawk Blue 9012 to be exact). They told me that the Hawks were VERY abrasive to the rotor when they were not up to temp so I should put them in and do a couple hard stops, then cool the brakes, then do a couple more stops until the vibration went away. So that I did... and it was kinda scarey... it was night time and every time I laid on the brakes, showers of sparks poured out of the front wheels!! :shocked I wish I had my video camera on me, it must have been a strange sight from the side of the road!! To make an already long story short, the race pads did their magic and the vibration went away and all I had to do was repeat the bedding-in procedure for my street pads and the brakes are back to 100% once again. And I learned my lesson and will DEFINITELY be using race pads when I go to the track next time!
I give StopTech an A+ for an awesome product, and an A++++++ for their EXCELLENT customer support! :xyxthumbs
