Pics of Jerry Peterson's "manly men" brakes from Buttonwillow. I'll let Jerry, Dave, Rylan, or someone else explain since they'd probably do a better job than me. I just have the pics

 

 

Oh, wow....

Shocked and sad for him at the same time. Thats going to be a pricey repair. I had both of my front brakes smoking on the last dragon ball and I was worried. I dont even think my brakes would have accepted pedal input to get themselves in that condition.

 

Some guidelines to avoid that kind of damage:

1) Use track compounds on the track.
2) Check pads before each session making sure you have more than 1/8" left before you pull to the grid.
3) Pit and check brakes when you find it takes increasing pedal pressure to slow the car.

It is dangerous for you and everyone else on the track to be driving at speed with equipment in that shape.

 

So what's the story here? Never seen damage like that.

Will Jerry still be at Big Willow?

 

chris: he was using track pads. He just didn't change them on time. If you've ever run to back plates its actually pretty hard to tell you're on them as braking still works very well. I want solid iron pads

2hoos: Yeah he'll be there. he just needs to rebuld the calipers.

 

i've done similar before, split my rotor right in half! very exciting

 

I've bent the backing plate of the pads before, but never seen anything that bad. Did the caliper itself fail in any way to cause this, or was it all just due to over use of the pads?

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by krazik
chris:

 

I've found myself in the same situation last year.

What started out as "a little more brake fade" at 1st, ended up becoming a nice paper weight for my desk. 2 brake pistons just about welded to the backing plate.