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Originally Posted by klubbheads
All this panic.... wow.
I would love to hear someone that actually tracked the car hard nismo or not with sports package. If you have i'm assuming you did have hi temp fluid, steel braded lines, and race pads because that is what you would do to any car that goes to the track let it be a vette or a toyota camry.
If anyone falls into this category then you are welcome to give your input here. The rest of the thread is full of panic and assumption based on an article that was published to justify the stupidity of the test driver that failed to realise that brakes are fading i better slow the fvck down.....
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Akebonos not up to heavy track use!
I have. I was using
-Valvoline synthetic fluid at the time, (which I successfully used on my 350Z and my C6 for the last 5 years of track usage).
-Hawk HP+ pads up front (highly recommend against them on this car)
-Stock rear pads
Boiled fluid, wore the rear pads to backing plates and scored the rear rotors and halfway wore the front pads down in one 20 minute session.
Once I switched to HP+ all around, I still had the boiling problem on the same track, but a little farther into the sessions.
When these brakes boil the fluid, you might get a tiny hint of a soft pedal at the first turn, but by the next, they are pretty much gone. Its really sudden and scary when it happens.
I haven't had the problem running Brembo GT calipers up front now and Carbotech XP-12/XP-10 pads with Motul fluid. I think the added mass of the GT caliper helps, but we really do need additional cooling.