23 992 GTS steel Brakes disappointing
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23 992 GTS steel Brakes disappointing
was instructing for a buddies track event . Took some students for some hot laps in my car after maybe 6 laps or so the brakes started pulsating badly like an abs feeling before abs. They still slowed the car down but felt horrible.
I could see heat marks on the rotors when I brought it in . Very disappointing while I have a Cup car I race and this car was only intended to be a daily I was hoping with turbo brakes it would be ok on track.
Anyone else have issues like this? was there a pad or rotor fix
Wishing now I went with ceramics just couldnt justify the cost
I could see heat marks on the rotors when I brought it in . Very disappointing while I have a Cup car I race and this car was only intended to be a daily I was hoping with turbo brakes it would be ok on track.
Anyone else have issues like this? was there a pad or rotor fix
Wishing now I went with ceramics just couldnt justify the cost
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For the track...-can not comment
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One word: pads. Stock pads are street pads - I went through a set in a day at a DE event, and the rears wear quicker than fronts due to intervention of PSM. Get a proper set of track Pagids/EBS/etc and problem solved.
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Yep, need better pads. Stock pads that aren't properly heat cycled could be very problematic. You invariably got some uneven pad deposit transfer to the rotors which gave you the vibration/pulsing feel.
Reminds of the one "easy" session I was going to do with my old '12 Cadillac CTS-V with stock everything. I can push pretty hard on track and I boiled the stock fluid and completely trashed the stock pads/rotors in 2/3ths of a session sliding off the track when the brake pedal went to the floor and I couldn't build pressure. Luckily, just slid sideways through the grass and stopped about 6 feet from a tire wall. Brakes vibrated incredibly bad all the way home after I got the brake fluid flushed at the track.
I dropped it at the dealer the next day and said the brakes were vibrating and making a weird noise. They put new pads and rotors on under warranty.
I was happy.
Reminds of the one "easy" session I was going to do with my old '12 Cadillac CTS-V with stock everything. I can push pretty hard on track and I boiled the stock fluid and completely trashed the stock pads/rotors in 2/3ths of a session sliding off the track when the brake pedal went to the floor and I couldn't build pressure. Luckily, just slid sideways through the grass and stopped about 6 feet from a tire wall. Brakes vibrated incredibly bad all the way home after I got the brake fluid flushed at the track.
I dropped it at the dealer the next day and said the brakes were vibrating and making a weird noise. They put new pads and rotors on under warranty.
I was happy.
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There’s no ‘do it all compound’. Street pads on the track won’t last a day in a well-driven car. Track pads on the street will be noisy and lack cold bite. And PCCB: they sound great a on paper, but no track junkie runs ‘em: everyone swaps to steel rotors lest they shell out $25k for replacement rotors. As with most things in life, everything is a compromise.
