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wstar

Well, status update: I was supposed to be back at MSR-H this past weekend with TDE again, but I got cancelled by work at the last minute. We had a sudden service outage (I do techie stuff) that started around noon Thursday and I was basically chained to my keyboard at home working on it non-stop through early Saturday morning (then a brief sleep break and back on it until late Saturday night). I had been planning to not work much Friday and do my car prep and head out, was pretty pissed off at my job for making me miss the weekend.

So... no real track test for the new brake setup yet. I will say though that my experience so far on the street (including some mildly track-y conditions testing out in the middle of nowhere in zero traffic) is that I love this CL RC6/RC5+ setup on the stock sport calipers. They seem to be basically self-maintaining on the rotor stuff as advertised, they're great at leveling out any unevenness in the rotor itself, the squeaking isn't too bad even after a lot of cold street driving, and the modulation is awesome. I think I was being fooled before by equating the Carbotechs' strong initial bite with being a "better" pad. These will clamp down just as hard when you lay your foot into the pedal, but you get so much easier modulation in the partial-pressure situations because the bite isn't so snappy. The release is more progressive as well. I think it's really going to help with my brake-to-maintenance-throttle transitions and working on trail braking.

Next weekend I'm scheduled for is late January. In the meantime all car stuff is basically on hold while I work on other life upgrades that will further enable my car hobby: buying a new house with a 3 car garage and a DD truck so I can take this car permanently off the street and finish going all out on the car's setup. I may initially keep it stickered and still drive it to and from events, but eventually it will go on a trailer, hence the truck choice for the DD.

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