Is a sport brake upgrade worthwhile on a '99
#21
I simply don't experience fade... ever. I know I sound like i'm being a blowhard but i simply don't. I just finished a day at chuckwalla and I did 12, 20+ minute sessions in 105 degree ambient (143 degree surface temps) and never once had the pedal fade at all. Seriously, not once.
And this isn't a singled out event. I have never had these fad on me. Even when we were doing a 90+ degree day at the ACS roval or a 103 degree day at WSIR... the pedal has never moved off of it's typical engagement point.
More parts I forgot to list: willwood 1" master, motul rbf 600 and stock 99 booster.
Edit: I should add that I wouldn't expect to experience fade based on my data. I use color changing brake temp paint on my rotors and calipers. The outside edge of my rotors seem to get up to about 900 degrees, calipers seem to peak at about 500-600. This means I'm well within the temperature envelope of the XP10's.
And this isn't a singled out event. I have never had these fad on me. Even when we were doing a 90+ degree day at the ACS roval or a 103 degree day at WSIR... the pedal has never moved off of it's typical engagement point.
More parts I forgot to list: willwood 1" master, motul rbf 600 and stock 99 booster.
Edit: I should add that I wouldn't expect to experience fade based on my data. I use color changing brake temp paint on my rotors and calipers. The outside edge of my rotors seem to get up to about 900 degrees, calipers seem to peak at about 500-600. This means I'm well within the temperature envelope of the XP10's.
#22
oh, my mistake.
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#25
I've experienced this myself with i turn the keys of my car over to my father when he comes to visit and do track days in my car. Fortunately for me it gives me alternate data points to see what happens when you're doing it wrong. He's a gold watch wearing corvette/camaro guy... so he drives the miata like an amateur.
As with anything YMMV. I'm too dumb to listen to anyone else and take their word for it. I just put stuff on the car, beat hte hell of out of it, and record what I see.
#26
here's a video from Kevin Parlett. Crewman for a PWC team. he's also a driver for carbotech. had one of the pad failures captured on video.
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i'll warn you right now about the afcos
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carbotechs perform well but are expensive. most of the Continental teams that tested with carbotecs found that they wouldn't make it to the end of a 2 hour race. also in the 2013 season they had a high failure rate (material delamination). heck some of the mx-5 chassis where having a hard time making to the end of a race with padgid yellows. Our driver liam dwyer car (freedom auto sport) was campaigning for a class win at seabring this year till his car simply ran out of friction materiel. you can watch the replay and see the car missing a lot of turns and shooting into the grass. We where finding that the PFC race pads would have 2x the life. that's why i say carbotech are expensive because you'll need to buy two to go the same distance.
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One of the biggest selling points of the PFC line is that they are a full-fledged high end race pad, but also have decent friction even when cold. You don't find that everywhere.
What uses are you trying to cover with your pads? Street, autox, HPDE, race? If you can't get PFC's for your calipers, you may be better served with one of the less extreme track pads which do offer decent low-temp friction - Carbotech XP8, Hawk DTC-30, Porterfield R41 - all of these offer at least decent friction when cold and don't need 300 degrees before waking up, and they all have fade resistance above 1000 degrees.
Any of those will be worlds better than the EBC yellows on the street. Monitor brake temperature at the track to see if the temperature range of the pads above will work for you.
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Run from EBC. They make the biggest joke race pads ive ever seen. They say its rated to 1600 but I wouldn't believe it. Ive seen their stuff fail after being used for only a few laps. Keep in mind too that maximum pad temperature doesn't mean too much in the grand scheme of things. As long as you have a pad thats raded for 1000*+ youll be ok for hpde's.
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I've heard from some of the fast guys in colder areas who were trying to run Carbotechs on the street that they were chunking and failing prematurely under street use.
I believe this was in reference to XP10/12, not XP8. I have no personal experience with said issues and have known local guys to street drive XP10s without problems. But down here it's always hot, and I only ever drove to/from the track on XP10s back when I used them.
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I believe this was in reference to XP10/12, not XP8. I have no personal experience with said issues and have known local guys to street drive XP10s without problems. But down here it's always hot, and I only ever drove to/from the track on XP10s back when I used them.
-Ryan