Just got back from bedding in the brakes WOW!!!!!!! DS2500 are amazing!!!
07-24-2004, 11:17 AM
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Just got back from bedding in the brakes WOW!!!!!!! DS2500 are amazing!!!
I followed the supplied instructions on how to bed them in 25 - 30 40% track style braking stops. Then progressively got faster. With the stock pads after two or three really hard and fast stops the pads would fad and give up not these. Did about 40 70 mph to MPH stops in a row and then did 5 120 to 30 stops back to back and the pads just kept grabbing more. They grab so much that under 100% braking you hang from the seat belt. The stock pads never even came close to this. I am sold. Oh ya the bilsteins are also just as amazing.
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07-24-2004, 02:59 PM
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If you think the DS2500 is amazing ...
someday you'll have to try the Ferodo DS3000. The step from DS2500 to DS3000 is as big as the step from OEM to DS2500.
Unfortunately, the DS3000 is a track only pad; when they're cold (i.e., street driving), they screech. Every stop will have every dog within 1/4 mile in excrutiating pain. I put them on at home once before driving to Grattan, and the sound reverberating in the Turnpike toll booth's was ear-splitting. On the track, though .... double WOW!!. Do you remember Randy Pobst's comments on Paul's brakes in the Mid-Ohio DVD?
And BTW: Definitely, you took bedding the brakes seriously ... forty 70 mph stops followed immediately by five 130 mph stops!
Unfortunately, the DS3000 is a track only pad; when they're cold (i.e., street driving), they screech. Every stop will have every dog within 1/4 mile in excrutiating pain. I put them on at home once before driving to Grattan, and the sound reverberating in the Turnpike toll booth's was ear-splitting. On the track, though .... double WOW!!. Do you remember Randy Pobst's comments on Paul's brakes in the Mid-Ohio DVD?
And BTW: Definitely, you took bedding the brakes seriously ... forty 70 mph stops followed immediately by five 130 mph stops!
07-24-2004, 07:00 PM
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Mine are pretty loud too (got the DS2500's) when I brake "normally": light during...
...regular driving. Especially when you have the windows down.
Do you think the DS3000 will not leave deposits on my discs like the DS2500's did after going around Mid-Ohio?
Do you think the DS3000 will not leave deposits on my discs like the DS2500's did after going around Mid-Ohio?
07-24-2004, 08:17 PM
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The DS3000's would be much louder, also ...
The light pad deposits on your rotor at Mid-Ohio are a sign that you've begun to exceed the temperature limits of the pad. The DS2500 is, after all, still a street pad; and they're telling you it's just about time to switch to a full race pad like the DS3000. You probably wouldn't see any pad deposits at all at Grattan, which is a little easier on brakes.
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I certainly have -- very slick!
At the moment I'm stuck with a dial-up connection, so I didn't download any of those large files. Are you going to have any problems with some of the material that may be copyrighted?