Best discs and pads for hard track?


ATE Super blue is good had no problems with it in this years racing £10 a litre happy days
 
FreakyParts said:
Drop me a PM if you want some prices on brakes. We supply decent discs and pretty much and pad you like at good prices.
Also can do decent affordable 4 pot upgrades as well.
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Hello mate, I can vouch for the Willwoods we put on Ricks ATR Turbo from you, very good. However currently i don't think there needed. I think i would just be upgrading the Pads for now or once these die. It might be an upgrade for after the Kswap is complete or over the winter. Cheers.
 
clockwoRk said:
thinking about what you said again, it is probably just the fluid boiling. if your mate drove it quite hard and didn't do much in the way of a cool down lap then as you parked it for 10min the fluid just got hotter and hotter as the heat from the calipers spread into the hoses with no airflow to help move the heat away.
again, just get some good fluid and on trackdays make sure you do a cooldown lap before you come in touching the brake as little as possible.
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Yeah i don't know how much of a cool down lap he did. Normally i do a lap or two cool down. A previously we were probably leaving 20 mins between sessions.

I am getting the fluid changed, my mate who mainly pre's BMW race cars has advised Castrol SRF, said he swears buy it. I was going to go with RBF660, but i guess i will take his advise.

I'll check the car out, think the heat shield may already be removed. As said the car performed really well all day, so i hope its just the fluid for now.

Cheers Guys,
Jay
 
juanv6 said:
Anyone had much experience with dixcel brakes?
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I view discs and pads as consumables, and replace when worn out.
I don't know the current cost if a set of Dixel discs, but in the past they wet something like £200 a pair.

For that sort of money they would need to stop me quicker, and last 3 times as long as a set or Mtec discs.
If they didn't I'd be massively annoyed! :)
 
have you tried running cooling hoses for the brakes?.
worked great for my std ek9 brake with front/back with yellows.
 
FreakyParts said:
I view discs and pads as consumables, and replace when worn out.
I don't know the current cost if a set of Dixel discs, but in the past they wet something like £200 a pair.

For that sort of money they would need to stop me quicker, and last 3 times as long as a set or Mtec discs.
If they didn't I'd be massively annoyed! :)
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That seems very steep!

I got a full set of genuine honda discs and pads for £250

Can't go wrong with standard honda parts.
 
Guys,

I checked the car today, and it now needs new fromy pads, the amount we used the last track day was a lot off front pad. Also fluid is now on minimum, so it definitely boiled. I have the brake bias set 2 clicks forward.

Discs and rear discs and yellowsstuffs are fine.

I want better breaking, so thinking of adding front DS3000s or RC6, anyone use this combination with rear yellows? Or best to go same pad all round?
 
juanv6 said:
That seems very steep!

I got a full set of genuine honda discs and pads for £250

Can't go wrong with standard honda parts.
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That seems steep too :lol: could do a set of Mtec discs and mintex pads for less than that :D
 
I personally prefer matching front and rear as they'll hear up at the same speed.
Drop me a PM when you work out what you want and I'll sort a price out for you. I run DS2500s on the race car and they lasted 2 seasons!
 
How much less?

I know I could have gone cheaper but I wasn't sure so I just went oem :)
 
Say £150 for the discs and £50 for the pads so £200 total. My car isn't being tracked or anything so id rather just pay the extra £50 for oem honda parts.

I think I'd only look into alternatives if is was taking the car on track.
 
Just checked and the discs with a set of front and rear Mintex pads would be less than £160 delivered.
Just think what you could have done with the extra £100 :D
 
PM you mate for prices.

Anyone else run different pad combo's, front / rear for track?

Thanks
 
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