S2000 Rear Brakes in IR!
 

As some of you know I work for FLIR, making IR cameras that are primarily used by Military, Law Enforcement and other government entities (both domestic and foreign). I ran across this video on my companies internal web service, and since it is a link to MBWorld, I figured it would share it here.

It is a guy using one of our smaller, commercial cameras to show how the breaks on his S2000 heat up and dissipate heat. There is other good tidbits in the video as well. Take a look and see how hard our brakes work when trying to keep us from flying off those mountain curves!

https://mbworld.org/articles/thermal...tors-heat-use/

Really interesting view with a good display of the intense heat from braking. Obviously you would have to be on the road to see front brake heat.

On the track in the early days of the S2000 it was obvious that rear brakes were getting very ineffective but the answer is to cool the front brakes so that less demand is placed on the rear. Stock brake pads are good on the street but are subject to pad fade from repeated exposure the very high heat (does not happen on the street) so that even when cooled they are less effective on a permanent basis.

So serious track work is done with race pads and front brake cooling.

Nice!