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Old 10-13-2009, 09:20 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by FuszNissan View Post
That's crazy!
I know, especially since I've always considered myself easy on brakes and none of my other cars have experienced this. I think its possibly the relatively small pad size for the caliper. I know the brembo pad has almost twice the surface area.

At first I thought the boiling was because the Valvoline synthetic wasn't up to the task, but seeing the dust boots, I have to wonder how darn hot the calipers got. I know that I have tested dust boots in the powdercoating oven and 400 degrees does nothing whatsoever to them.
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