track pads for the 200

[PeterBergin at aol.com]

I have had Bilstein HD for 8 years and 140k.  One leaked after the  first 
year and I got a warrantee replacement.  Still pretty good  today.  They are 
stiffer than stock (I have stock springs).  
Pete
 
 
In a message dated 12/2/2010 11:23:16 A.M. Central Standard Time,  
centaurus3200 at yahoo.com writes:

i'd go  for bilstein HD's. i have koni yellows and H&R springs - the koni's 
are  
already getting soft on the front - and they only have about 30k on them.  


Robby




________________________________
From:  Bernie Benz <b.benz at charter.net>
To: David Sexton  <sextondm at gmail.com>
Cc: 200q20V mailing list  <200q20v at audifans.com>
Sent: Thu, December 2, 2010 7:40:09  AM
Subject: Re: track pads for the 200

My suspension is stock, with  Konis. Negative camber neutralized by a  
combo of moving strut top  outboard as far as possible by filing  
mounting holes in tower top,  and adding a strut brace. The latter is  
the best chassis mod that  you could make for the track. See my design  
posted to this list many  years ago.

Bernie


On Dec 1, 2010, at 10:30 PM, David Sexton  wrote:

> What kind of setup are you running for suspension?  My  car's stock,  
> and I don't think I'll ever take it far from  there, but H&R's and  
> possibly Koni Yellow's could be in the  future  :)
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Bernie  Benz <b.benz at charter.net>  
> wrote:
>
>
>  Begin forwarded message:
>
>> From:  n-engelbert at terrans.net
>> Date: September 20, 2005 9:50:05 AM  PDT
>> To: brett at cloud9.net
>> Cc: quattro at audifans.com,  200q20v at audifans.com
>> Subject: Re: track pads for the  200
>>
>>> Last year at Tremblant I borrowed a set of  pads from a fellow  
>>> lister- we
>>> think  they were Paul Weston carbon pads, but nobody is really  
>>>  sure, and
>>> they were not marked, far as I can  remember.
>>>
>>> I liked them, though it seemed like  they really needed some heat;
>>> initially they wouldn't have  much bite, but as they heated up  
>>> braking  for
>>> a turn they'd really haul the car down (which I suppose is  good-
>>> progressive, and only get stronger as they heat up  instead of  
>>> fading out.)
>>>  I ended  up with some streaks of pad material; rotor surface was  
>>>  very poor
>>> and the brake ducts were missing, so maybe that  partially  
>>> explains it.
>>>
>>>  Anyway- email to Paul Weston went unanswered several days ago,   
>>> and nobody
>>> answers the phone.  I sent  another email from a different  
>>> address,  but
>>> this guy seems a little hard to get ahold of, and the  website is a
>>> disaster;java applets used as  buttons...[shudder].
>>>
>>> So I need pads- by end of  this week or early next week.  Don't  
>>>  especially
>>> care about dust that much long as it won't eat the  hell out of  
>>> the wheels.
>>>  I am  looking for something that will stand up well to track rotor
>>>  temperatures.  Modulation/progressiveness would be a plus, since   
>>> the UFOs
>>> are not the easiest to  modulate.
>>>
>>> I'd rather not have to mess around  with sending in backing plates.
>>>
>>> Any  recommendations?
>>>
>>> Brett
>>
>>  The only readily available "track" pads that I'm aware of for the   
>> UFO's is
>> the Porterfield R4, which I destroyed in a  weekend at Autobahn  
>> Country
>> Club in Joliet  IL.  Overheated the pads and they were really  
>>  cracked.  I
>> then sent the plates into Carbotech  (www.carbotecheng.com) and got  
>> the XP9
>>  compound.  That was great for two events Grattan and Mid-Ohio.   
>> They've
>> probably got 2 more 30 minute sessions left  on them if you need them,
>> Brett.  Although, getting pads from  carbotech is not really an  
>> option for
>> you  because their lead time is ~1 week.
>>
>> I ran R4S at  Blackhawk Farms because I hadn't had my XP9's redone  
>> and  wore
>> those down to the backing plates in 2 sessions.  I got  nice  
>> stories on how
>> much "smoke" was coming  from my wheel wells going into 7 there.  
>> What I
>>  ended up running at Blackhawk was the stock Jurid pads, which   
>> didn't brake
>> amazingly, but did hold up to the  remaining 5 sessions.
>>
>> HTH!
>>
>>  Nathan Engelbert
>> 83 UrQ DA900453
>> 89 90q
>> 91  200q20v avant
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