Yea, forgot about the pump that would add some heat. My instructor was trying to get ABS activated as well - I think just to prove how much more brake effort I was leaving on the table UP TO ABS. It's eye opening how much more stopping power is available to a newbie like myself.
The videos I've watched look like a blast. There are several days upcoming this fall. I am debating going in October or not.
Also factor in if the cars weren't braking from the same speed. Floored to the 3 vs floored to the 5. Kinetic energy would increase.
Very true. That would tend to increase the heat load during hard braking. However, that's only a few percent and not a huge difference.
Ferodo's are excellent pads, but the price is crazy! You get a lot of bang for the buck with Paragon's. I'm not really running into the brake judder issue. I'm on R5's, but I have the dust shields removed. I wonder if super high heat is causing your judder issue???Awesome day at Pineview run. What a car. Very fun track, 1.8 miles and felt more like a big auto cross with a faster straight (like 90mph) and rest lower speeds, very technical. A bit bumpy as they are still working on it but a lot of fun. I had no idea what the line was (could not find anything on youtube with a guide since its a fairly new track) so I spent the whole day just having fun and trying to figure it out. Car did not even come close to over heating, was only 80 out and I was not pushing that hard/not a super fast track.
Still struggling with the brake judder, although was way better than my last track day where the car was barely drivable. It got much better after sanding the pads but after a couple of events its back at the same. I think its the paragon pads, they are prone to leave deposits. I can't say for sure but I am going to get something else, likely either CSG or Ferodos.
Yeah it definitely is heat related as it gets worst as the session goes. It was mostly solved a month ago, braking was feeling good after I sanded the pads. Then did a auto cross (5-10 minute sessions so not really a traditional autox) and on the way home I could feel the juddering, was hoping would go away with some driving but not really. Then was hoping maybe a few hard braking at the track could get rid of the deposits but nope. It was fine first too sessions but by the 4th session it was pretty bad. My next try is to actually sand the rotors a bit and re bed.
I've just used SR11 for the first time, with brand new paragon rotors and A005 slicks. What a beast of a brake pad. Could easily overload the slicks, yet very good to modulate with low pedal pressure. I won't ever go back to rpx now...
will look into EBC SR11, thank you.
