Making my car an S2000 race car
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Originally posted by krazik
Just that if your running pad that lasts that long you should try other compounds too since its longevity usually means the compound was made for endurance racing where life is more important than raw performace.
Just that if your running pad that lasts that long you should try other compounds too since its longevity usually means the compound was made for endurance racing where life is more important than raw performace.
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Well, whether he's in ABS or not isn't really the point, I was just using it for an example. How do you perceive getting more performance out of a softer pad, if the pad he currently uses is capable of braking the car to full lock? I won't be surprised if there's a perfectly valid argument for the softer pad, I just can't think of one. What ingenious technical tidbit have you got to share with me today?
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Couple comments. The seals not melting may be relevant to performance in that it suggests that the brakes may not be getting overheated as they were in my previous experience (unless the rubber material of the seal is now different on the '03). Recall also that Aaron B. drove my car at Spring Mountain and turned 1:50.xxx's and he thought the brakes felt great, and he was very surprised to see that we hardly wore the pads at all for the two days with both of us driving the car. The PFC97's are billed as endurance pads, but they seem to stop the car well enough, though to be honest I still want to try another pad as I rarely engage ABS even (maybe I am not sensitive or aware enough to feel it, or very sensitive and instinctively back off?). I do think there is less initial bite than I recall with the Brakeman #3's, but I am a lot smoother on and off the brakes than I used to be so not sure. Only answer is to try another pad, which I will.
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Originally posted by fluxen
Well, whether he's in ABS or not isn't really the point, I was just using it for an example. How do you perceive getting more performance out of a softer pad, if the pad he currently uses is capable of braking the car to full lock? I won't be surprised if there's a perfectly valid argument for the softer pad, I just can't think of one. What ingenious technical tidbit have you got to share with me today?
Well, whether he's in ABS or not isn't really the point, I was just using it for an example. How do you perceive getting more performance out of a softer pad, if the pad he currently uses is capable of braking the car to full lock? I won't be surprised if there's a perfectly valid argument for the softer pad, I just can't think of one. What ingenious technical tidbit have you got to share with me today?
If someone is able to achieve full lock with a "harder" compound that never wears that would be ideal. But from my experience w/ stock s2k brakes, we benefit from the extra bite of a non endurance compound.
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Rylan, also keep in mind you are running very grippy tires in the front and higher Mu pads for you will make a difference where running RA-1s on high Mu pads would limit the tires as the braking factor to engage abs.
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Times will likely not improve much as you spend the least time braking. If you can trigger the ABS then you have all the braking force you need or at least can use.