Re: Girling 60 conversion. Long

["Pat Martin" <mardkins@email.msn.com>]

My guess is the pads were gone as they were shooting sparks from my wheels.
Also had to dig the leftovers out of the cross drilling afterwards.  Flames
are usually a good indication that the pad is going.:-)


Pat



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>Bob,
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>> I guess that may be the heart of the problem. The metalmasters. They
>> (IMO) are really good street pads, but they go to the dumper really
>> quickly on the track.  Fluid should be fine assuming the system wasnt
>> opened.
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>That depends on how much heat the pads transfer into the caliper.By "going
into
>the dumper" do you mean loose friction or boil the fluid, since most of the
time
>fade is just loss of braking power due to boiling fluid.
>Have you confirmed that it was not the boiling fluid but the pads loss of
>friction?
>Could have great coeficient of friction but if it transfers a lot of heat
than it
>will boil the fluid regardless.
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