ZCarMan

Just as a reference my first track event was a Hyperdrive at Summit Point. I remember when we rolled out for the first lap I was at the back of the entire group as I was almost late to the grid! When we got underway on the straight headed toward turn one which was a hard right (almost a hairpin) I remember I didn't really go too fast and didn't brake all that hard, so the instructor asked if I was really braking hard. I told him no, He told me the next time we came down the straight to haul a$$ and not let off the gas until he told me to, and then when he told me to he said I should step on the brake HARD until he told me to release and turn in. Needless to say this was my first experience with how well a good set of brakes work because I must've been doing a buck twenty down the straight and it kept getting closer and closer to the turn and then at almost the last second he said, "BRAKE" and I stepped hard onto the brakes. They did exactly what they were supposed to do which was bring the Z down slow enough to the point I could look for the turn in point and try to shoot for the apex. I missed the apex the first time. LOL For that Hyperdrive I was equipped with a 19 row oil cooler, the sport Akebono brakes, upgraded with Hawk HPS+ pads and MOTUL RBF-600 brake fluid. I never had any problems for the entire 25 minutes the Hyperdrive lasted. Temps that day were in the 80s.

Conversely, Daisuke on this forum was with me at Little Talladegha in Alabama for the track session at Z Nationals with his stock Akebono brakes pads and he fried the pads after the first 25 minute session and had to call it. I managed to not suffer any problems for two 25 min sessions with brakes but on the third session I did managed to boil my clutch fluid, which I fixed by replacing also with the MOTUL RBF-600 fluid afterward. Temps that day were 104F on the track.

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Jon