[s-cars] Taka: Brake fade

[Theodore Chen]

--- Kevin Barnett <bluevr6 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> "As for track use, I faded the Porsche 996 caliper /
> MBZ 320x30mm rotor
> running Hawk HPS pads at the Glen. Repeated 135 to 60
> on the back 
> straight"
> 
> It was the pads.  The Hawk HPS is a street pad and you
> probably far exceeded the temp range for the pad
> compound on track.
> 
> I run the HPS+ on the street on my S4 (still with
> G60's in front) and have faded them on mountain roads
> around the house when driving hard.  My issue would be
> a compination of too small of a heat sink with the
> smaller rotors and exceeding the temp range of teh pad
> compound.

you left out the other sentence in which taka said the pedal went
to the floor.  that is boiling fluid fade, not pad fade.  not
to say there wasn't any pad fade, but a low pedal is boiling brake
fluid (either water or the fluid itself).

-teddy


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