Bedding in Carbotech pads with Used Rotors

Ron

I'm a noob at this brake bedding thing and all...What do people that swap between street and track pads do then? is it ok to swap as long as the race pads have already being bedded with a new/resurfaced rotor?

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takjak2

XP 10/8 or 8s front and rear?

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cossie1600

HP+ is a fine pad, but I just don't think they offer enough bang for the buck. They also murder rotors too.

SPOHN

I agree. They would be fine for DD and spirtited days IMO. If you don't mind the dust. They did do well on my first track day. Even though the track wasn't brake intensive and I wasn't pounding on the brakes yet.

That's what I hope to learn more on my next two track days in Nov. (which are two days in a row) is to brake later and harder. I did some runs today after my pads were bedded in and really starting to learn the feel of our cars and how well they actully can handle with my setup under hard braking. I was more than shock of what it can do under braking when combined with my LSD also, being it locks at 50% under deceleration.

But my second little run later that day I got down the road about four miles (casual driving) then went for and under braking it did overload the tires with the first two hard stops. I know these pads are awesome and the tires were probably colder when I first started. But is this to be expected from time to time with the XP 8's? I have RE-11 tires. Also after bedding them in I haven't heard hardly any squeals. Boooooo. I want them to. I love that. Just call me crazy. Pretty sure I'll have my far share soon enough.

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cossie1600

Just be careful of ice mode. The last time I drove my car, the temps were in the 50s. I couldn't do any hard stops without ice mode kicking on

sig11

I really wish I could reproduce that. I've yet to be able to cause ice mode and I want to know what it feels like so I can train myself to mitigate it if it occur.

I recently had some fun after something unknown caused the car to disable ABS and VDC... it was fun to lightly lock up the brakes on a country road and find the limit of that grip.

cossie1600

When I get home, I will try to take a video of it. The pedal basically goes stiff and you lose a lot of braking power

takjak2

Find a shitty broken up parking lot. Grass growing through cracks is the best. Brake hard going across it. Enjoy ice mode.

BRAKE and VDC will give up and turn off (light up) if the brake fluid sensor reads low. It's towards the front of the reservoir and if you're a little low can be tripped by hard acceleration. Credit to ChrisSlicks for helping diagnose that on my car after one track day.

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sig11

I had that issue before a track day as well.. and thankfully a friend had some RBF600 so I could top off. This time was different. I immediately hopped out and checked the fluid which hadn't changed/was probably over-full. I chalked it up to the angle of the garage anyway but I'm going to be careful for a while anyway because of the fluid level at the time.