i knew you would, and carbotechs NEVER fail! like saying bears don't **** in the woods. what kinda times you postin' over there?

 

I'm on 205 nt-01 and 2.5 seconds behind the sm record. Tomorrow should be more fruitfull. Regardless of the lap times, I'm having fun with my car again, competitive or not. Btw, 210whp feels slow.

 

How are the NT-01s doing? Holding out, or shredding rubber?

 

wtf do you call this then?

Carbotech xp12s

Edit: My mistake they were xp10s, but still failure

 

210hp is poopooooo

i am glad its working out for you!! now i can sleep better

 

ah hemm..

 

'splain me how brake pads wear themselves at an angle.

C

 

YouTube - Miata Challenge 4 - April 11th at Thunderhill

Happens when you get going fast on a track. IIRC they were brand new before this day.

More info here:
https://www.miataturbo.net/forum/t33100/

 

I understand wear, but to wear so unevenly would seem to be caused by something other than the pads themselves.

C

 

When you actually (ab)use your brakes, calipers flex and the above picture is the result.

 

I am on aircard internet so I can't actually see the photos, but I'm fairly certain they are from my car, so:

-Either the pad is tapered evenly from one side to the other, which is just normal use with crappy single-piston calipers. The pads don't wear evenly when you really press them hard.
-Or, the pads are just ******* destroyed, bent backing plates, the whole kit and kaboodle, which happens when you take said crappy single-piston calipers to Laguna Seca and hammer on them for 2 days.

 

Sure, fine. But how does this = Carbotech fail?

C

 

It's not. And Trey, if you are doing that to pads and are still slower than SM record, use the brakes less

 

Y pad taper is not that severe, but bad enough to half the pad life

 

In for big brake kit.

 

By the time I had any confidence n the car to hot lap, the brakes were gone... and I'm on 6.5" wide wheels with 205's. John and. Were discuss our inAbility to eclipse sm lap record times and I've come up with a laundry list of excuses that I'm going to employ until i get to a horsepower friendly track. I managed to go 10-seconds faster than I did the last time I drove this car.

 

Wtf? Aren't you mister "I own more 6ULs than you can find in GIS"...

Glad to hear you're having fun.

 

10 seconds faster is a huge improvement. Nicely done. So you are using carbotechs on stock rotors, correct?

 

you should be able to sleep better too.

 

well then you better come to tws next month for our little mchallenge.
more of a horsepower track than hallett or msr-c.