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Originally Posted by RCZ
They will be fine on the road. That disclaimer is just a heads up that the pads are dusty and noisy. All track pads are dusty and noisy though so there is no alternative.
The only thing you can do is get street pads for when you aren't on the track (keep the stockers) and then swap them out the night before you go to the track...takes about 45 minutes for the average homo sapien to swap pads on this car.
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This is why Nissan went with street pads. Owners of 350Z (me included) complained about brake dust more than braking performance on the track. So expecting to swap pads before a track day isn't an issue.
I think the outstanding issue that Nissan has to address is
how suddenly the stock pads fail without warning under track conditions. I still can't understand why Nissan engineering would accept this as a safe failure under reasonable use conditions.
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Originally Posted by RCZ
You can't expect a car to cost 20k less and perform the same. Don't be disappointed, get pads and an oil cooler ( $1000 installed) and then you can go tool on those caymans all day long.
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I agree. And 0-60 in my mind isn't a primary measure of a sub 4sec. sports car's performance. At the end of the day it comes down to track times for me.