[urq] FW: Brakes for the UrQ

[Nathan Engelbert]

Absolutely.  Less rotor = less ability to shed heat.

I ran hawk blue's at Road America in 2003 with my UrQ, and my problem
wasn't so much boiling fluid, but more pad fade going downhill into 5. 
The pedal was still hard, but the brakes were going away.  Boiling brake
fluid results in a spongy pedal.

I'm running Eric R's system of Boxster calipers under UrS4 fuchs with
300mm rotors and Hawk Blue or HT-10 pads.  That has held up well so far
with the 20v swap on track (Autobahn Country Club, Blackhawk Farms, and
MidOhio).

Nathan Engelbert
83 UrQ DA900453
95 S6 avant

> There's a greater chance of boiling the brake fluid though, right?
>
> Andrew Finney
> 1985 UrQ V8
>
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 7:09 AM, Ingo Rautenberg
> <ingo.rautenberg at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> L-A,
>>
>> Absolutely.  But the importance of proper bedding-in can not be
>> overemphasized.
>>
>>  On Jan 28, 2010 10:03 AM, "Louis-Alain Richard" <larichard at plguide.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> I have a stupid question :
>>
>> If someone install super-aggressive racing pads on stock rotors and
>> calipers
>> (ok, maybe G60 fronts + S4 rears), I know the rotors would be eaten in
>> short
>> distance, but could a system like that provide plenty of stopping power
>> ?
>>
>> I'm asking, cause I saw a works racing Ford Taurus SHO (1989) back in
>> the
>> day, Scott Maxwell was the driver, and they were using stock FoMoCo
>> rotors,
>> and change them each week-end. The car was racing in Showroom stock, so
>> modifications were minimal. And the 4 rotors were glowing red just after
>> a
>> few laps, and stayed like that for the whole race. Could this be an
>> alternative for us who don't drive the car much ?
>>
>> Louis-Alain
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Message d'origine-----
>> De : urq-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:urq-bounces at audifans.com] De la
>> part
>> de racingiron at comcast.net
>> Envoyé : 27 janvier 2010 19:47
>> À : Steve Mills; afinn1 at gmail.com
>> Cc : urq list
>> Objet : Re: [urq] FW: Brakes for the UrQ
>>
>> Steve Mills wrote: > I'm going to be test fitting Boxster calipers with
>> 300mm rotors > in the ...
>>
>>
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