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jrtoffroad · 07-25-2011

Quick update:

I went ahead and swapped over to some willwood 600 brake fluid, carbotech 10's front & 8's rear, and a new set of blank centric rotors.

I ran this way for a couple months and a few autocross events. The carbotech pads offer AMAZING braking, BUT require a great deal of heat and produce a large amount of dust. Getting a little sick of cleaning my wheels every couple days and not getting the full benefit of them in my autoX events, I have now swapped to Hawk HPS pads (and shelved the carbotechs for my next real track day).

I find the HPS pads still like a little heat for max baking. They do NOT stop as well as the carbotechs, but are a much better compromise, and do better at lower temps.

Still looking to build/buy some ducts eventually.

07-25-2011	#7
jrtoffroad Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Colorado Springs, CO Posts: 75	Re: Brake Cooling - Advice? Quick update: I went ahead and swapped over to some willwood 600 brake fluid, carbotech 10's front & 8's rear, and a new set of blank centric rotors. I ran this way for a couple months and a few autocross events. The carbotech pads offer AMAZING braking, BUT require a great deal of heat and produce a large amount of dust. Getting a little sick of cleaning my wheels every couple days and not getting the full benefit of them in my autoX events, I have now swapped to Hawk HPS pads (and shelved the carbotechs for my next real track day). I find the HPS pads still like a little heat for max baking. They do NOT stop as well as the carbotechs, but are a much better compromise, and do better at lower temps. Still looking to build/buy some ducts eventually.