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Apr 25, 2006 | 04:45 PM

SereniTTy

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paging stilljester: How are those brakes coming, I just got back from VIR and I

smoked my brakes. While my brakes were the first mod on my car the power/handling mods have gone WAYYY past the small brake changes I made. And I found out yesterday and today at VIR, repeated laps were h*** on my brakes.

Other than that (and a samco blowing off during a run) I had a blast. It was my first track event and it was soo much fun. I had one instructor comment that my car had incredible grip (on the wet skidpad) and apparently he was impressed enough that he was telling other students while he was in their cars. (that grip saved my butt when I didn't brake hard enough for oak tree once, that was almost an off-track excursion)

I'm looking forward to the next one and plan on havign much more serious brakes... And a separtae set of Fliks (many cars with Flik lex's at teh track) with some Falken Avenis 615's. Much better to smoke $110 tires than my 225/40-18 Potenza SO3's. The SO3's were amazing, but they did take one heck of a beating...

Apr 25, 2006 | 05:04 PM

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You learned a great track lesson and became a better driver by smoking the brakes....

From experience, first time on a big track and you are murder on the brakes. Yep, mine went soft the first time on a big track, but it forced me the rest of the day to learn to drive better and smoother and just not dive into a corner, nail the brakes, and jerk the wheel in the other direction. Gotta be firm and smooth on the brakes and hit those apexes mid to late.

Then I went and got Stoptechs and Motul brake fluid and you could just beat the hell out of them and be OK.

Folks need to remember that just adding slotted or cross drilled rotors are not really brake upgrades, just prettier. Even moreso, adding a much more aggressive pad can cause alot more heat and ruin the brake rotors pretty quickly.

Glad you had fun.

Apr 25, 2006 | 05:59 PM

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So far so good...

Apr 25, 2006 | 06:52 PM

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^ ^ ^ very good points here for those of you who still need to get those queens out on a track!

Apr 26, 2006 | 02:22 AM

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SereniTTy saved my weekend by generously allowing me to use his wheel spacers!

Dan was helping my mount my track wheels when we realized that they wouldn't fit over my new brakes. (I installed Stoptechs in December after babying the stock brakes at the track for 5 years.) If Dan hadn't been there, I would have had to run on my all-seasons!

By the way, I ran a session with Mike Levitas behind the wheel. (Mike is a pro driver whose #36 Porsche placed 3rd overall in this weekend's Grand Am race with Randy Pobst behind the wheel.) He was totally impressed with the TT. It's stock except for the Stoptechs and Toyo RA1's. He LOVED it -- said it handles as well as his new Cayman S!

Another highlight for me:

One guy had an S4 that was pushing 400+ horsepower. He could run away from everybody on the straights, but his line and technique were pretty rough. In the last session, he started right behind me -- and I darned near lapped him! Just goes to show you: even on a horsepower-friendly track like VIR, handling and driver skills will beat horsepower.

Anyways, I really owe Dan for helping me out with the spacers. He also helped out with tech inspections, which was much appreciated.

--Chris