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Originally Posted by titan
Initial assessment is that they have all the stopping power you need, certainly (it was dry) I was seeing some ABS action on hard braking (conti sport tyres). I think a quote from someone else sums it up "King of the Late Brakers"
However longevity, feel and noise/vibration is an issue. After a few laps I was getting slight wobble in the wheel, moreso under braking, the pedal didn't feel as rock solid and braking produced that droning, rumbling noise.
Quick inspection of the discs and they show a "smearing" in sections and the surface is lined rather than a smooth finish.
Driving the car home and its pretty bad now. Now I'm no brake guru, so I'm open to suggestions here, but this seems to be exactly what happened on my brothers R26R when we used an incorrect pad compound. The pad can't deal with the heat and starts to break down, putting deposits onto the disc and generally its all a bit crap.
I am using RS29's. One suggestion offered up was to try RS19s.
As I say, I've experienced this before and to a lesser degree on the evo using carbotech pads - the fix was to simply move up a compound.
I think I'll have a go at cleaning up the discs (unlikely that they are warped)
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I think that this may be your problem Titan - In my experience pagid pads need some road miles to bed them in before being used on track, if your pads look like they have melted then just remove the glazed material with a file and then do a few miles to re-align the surfaces and they'll be fine...
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Originally Posted by shimmy
RS29 are superb so not the cause  so dont bother replacing them. They are hard as can be and you certainly dont want harder metal based pads and all that entails.
give them a clean and see what happens.
Most likely cause is that you have not bedded them in properly (assuming they were fitted new). Did you do the full sickeningh bedding in process? |
Spot on shimmy
09-10-2010, 06:05 PM
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