Brake Cooling - Advice?

[jrtoffroad]

Hey Guys,

Took my ZR-1 to my first DE event this weekend at Tallagega Grand Prix (miniTalladega). Had an absolute BLAST! The car did amazing with the exception of one thing...the brakes.

The stopping power was fine, but after ~6 hot laps the pedal would start to get very soft. I was obviously boiling the fluid. Admittedly, this is a tough course on brakes (with very little time for cooling), but I don't like having to take a few cool down laps and let the porsche's I just passed back by me

I'm running GS calipers up front with powerslot rotors and unknown pads (whatever the car came with) all around. Prior to the event I changed the the brake fluid out to some new valvoline syn. (~480 dry & 313 wet boiling points I believe).

The solution I'm planning is to step up to some better brake fluid and add cooling to the front brakes.

-For fluid I'm looking at the Wilwood 600 http://www.summitracing.com/parts/WIL-290-6209/ having a 626 dry & 417 wet boiling points. I'd love to run Castrol SRF with its 518 deg wet boiling point, but it's just too expensive for me.... With the wilwood fluid I can afford to regularly bleed it.
-For cooling I'm thinking about combining the midamerica spoiler: http://www.mamotorworks.com/corvette...-371-3979.html with the quantum motorsports brake cooling duct plates: http://store.quantummotorsports.com/...products_id=69

Finally, I'm thinking about stepping up to some Carbotech brake pads while I'm at it. (XP10 pads up front and XP8 pads in the rear)

Thoughts? Any one had similiar issues and solved it without stepping up to some ubber expensive rotors and calipers?

Thanks!
Jordan