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Old Oct 29, 2014 | 08:39 AM
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Originally Posted by NeoJFK
hi Dixon!
i've read long posts from a long time ago regarding th epads and discs.
I am living in dubai and doing track days on the autodrome which is quite a big track (more than 5.4km) with 2 bigs straights.
As you can imagine temperature is rarely going below 30 as well.
I keep having issues since i got my s2000.
from fading to killing oem pads after 10 laps.
I know have a BBK kit from tarox at the front (6 pistons) with grooved dics and carbotech XP10 and oem calipers at the back with stoptec slotted rotors and carbotech XP8 at the back. even tho the braking power is excellent those pads drive me crazy! The moment they are a bit hot, on normal driving on the road they squeal like crazy even without braking! do you have any recommendation with my brake setup for road and track use?
Thanks a lot for your help.

Really what you have to do is look at car setup.

Whatever you do, you want to make sure you don't shift the braking bias (assuming your abs, brake bias controller are all stock). You want to make sure both the front and the back are doing their fare share.

First of all you need a baseline reading. So I would grab some thermal temp paint or an ir gun or an ir camera and look at the temperatures of the 4 corners but more importantly the balance between front and back.

This is really done best with a stock setup and stock pads so you know how Honda had intended for the braking distribution to be done.

When you run a BBK this will through off values since the whole point of a BBK is to run cooler temperatures in the braking system.

Generally, I have found on my stock CR, 225/255 setup that running the same pad compound front and back gets me:
Even pad wear front to back
Cooler rotor temperatures
Less rotor cracking
Less front end dive

As far as squeaking pads when I'm driving on public roads it just means I need a couple hard brakes and it's gone.




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