[s-cars] UrS4 brake hardware question

[Taka Mizutani]

Race pads work great when up to temperature, but they DO NOT work in cold
weather! Especially for winter use, you have to be crazy to use full race
pads- how would you ever get the brakes up to operating temp?

A lot of race pads don't exhibit a decent coeff. of friction until they are
up to operating temperature.

Aggressive street pads are fine, but running something like Hawk HT-14 or
Pagid Yellow for the street isn't going to work well.

Taka


On 10/3/07, RM <waves at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Good info here guys! However, I'm still leaning towards stock sized
> everything. The reason i think i can get away with this is i have a 77
> Scirocco that i road race and hilllcimb that still has stock sized front
> disks and rear drums. I use top of the line race pads which yes, eat the
> rotors to no end, but brake performance is consisantly excellent. It's not a
> big deal to swap out the rotors every 4-5 races, once they are glazed beyond
> repair. I see tire rack is selling stock front Brembos for my S4 for $25
> each. Heck, i'll buy 2 sets and have a spare in case a good set of front
> pads eat up the rotors. :-)
>
> Rolf
>