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Right, all you boys who complain about Brake Fade. Got a plan that doesn't entail getting the biggest largest most expensive calipers you can find.
I'm going to try these out on our local circuit in 6weeks time. I had a good long chat to arguably the guys in NewZealand for race brakes. They supply to most of the teams in NZ. After a long chat about going for big brakes in my TTZ they said, try some of these pads on new sport rotors with ultra high temp fluid and let us know if you *manage* to outbrake them. These are the same as used on WRC rally cars - the Ford Focus team use them on both tarmac and gravel I believe. On gravel stages they use them with 310mm discs on 4 pots, and on tarmac 360mm discs with 8 pots (fek!) .. on the circuit you aren't generating san-remo esque brake needs so I don't think I need the 360mm discs..
The downside is they are not really for use on the road and they are not easy on discs, but when you compare the price to a full AP 6pot setup it's very very very cheap.
I've got a link of a good independent write up of the DS3000's (I'll have to dig it up), reading it I was like yeah baby... If this means anything to anyone the DS11's which were the previous goods from Ferodo used in rallys etc had a mu value of 0.45 the DS3000's are 0.60 (or .65 not sure) and don't drop off till the pads get to 750degC ... unlike normal pads which give up the ghost and the mu does a skydive.
Combine that with high temp brake fluid and stainless lines if you haven't already got some and see what happens. I know I'm going to give it a shot!
Rowan
I'm going to try these out on our local circuit in 6weeks time. I had a good long chat to arguably the guys in NewZealand for race brakes. They supply to most of the teams in NZ. After a long chat about going for big brakes in my TTZ they said, try some of these pads on new sport rotors with ultra high temp fluid and let us know if you *manage* to outbrake them. These are the same as used on WRC rally cars - the Ford Focus team use them on both tarmac and gravel I believe. On gravel stages they use them with 310mm discs on 4 pots, and on tarmac 360mm discs with 8 pots (fek!) .. on the circuit you aren't generating san-remo esque brake needs so I don't think I need the 360mm discs..
The downside is they are not really for use on the road and they are not easy on discs, but when you compare the price to a full AP 6pot setup it's very very very cheap.
I've got a link of a good independent write up of the DS3000's (I'll have to dig it up), reading it I was like yeah baby... If this means anything to anyone the DS11's which were the previous goods from Ferodo used in rallys etc had a mu value of 0.45 the DS3000's are 0.60 (or .65 not sure) and don't drop off till the pads get to 750degC ... unlike normal pads which give up the ghost and the mu does a skydive.
Combine that with high temp brake fluid and stainless lines if you haven't already got some and see what happens. I know I'm going to give it a shot!
Rowan