Standard Brake Pads + Track Day = ??

[Rayhoop 0]

Who has run their VR on standard brake pads during a track day?

Was it an issue?

How much is there to gain between standard pads and EBC Yellows, and Ferrodo DS2500s?

My front discs/pads are nice and meaty - but they are standard items.

Brake hoses will be braided goodridge hoses

Fluid will be new dot 5.1

Just wondering whether there is much to gain from spending £200 on brembo grooved discs from GnS + DS2500s.... Or just getting a set of EBC Yellows to use with my current discs?

[Rayhoop 0]

pretty much answered in the thread:

http://www.vr6oc.com/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?384230

However, has anyone had any track experience on standard pads? Was there any serious brake fad etc?

[craggsy 91]

Following on from that thread tho, I had standard Porsche pads I think in my 6 pots whilst at the ring and doing the nurburgring F1 track they worked very well indeed. So will pop to Porsche and see how much they are compared to yellows

[editionmatt 1]

a decent set of 312's and carriers with sum ds5000s would do you a treat not toooo expensive as long as uv got the obd2 calipers to start off with!

[Rayhoop 0]

Mine is a 97 plate OBD2, so it has the 288s and Im guessing the bigger pads.

I dont want to go for bigger brakes, as I want to retain my solitudes and keep the oem look, so was just wondering whether a pad upgrade is worth it,

I might just try to find some EBC Yellow stuff pads for now.

[editionmatt 1]

go for it mate will be interesting to see the diffeerence with diff pads while staying with 288's let me know how u get on!

[Rayhoop 0]

Well my budget wont stretch to some track day front pads for now, so we serviced the brakes on the weekend.

Greased the calliper slider pins, and the the pads (not the pad material!) so they move freely on the calliper carrier. Flushed the brake fluid and replaced with 5.1 fluid. Beld the system - all good.

Discs and pads all round are standard but look healthy (rears are new, fronts are older but plenty of meat and worn evenly). Brake lines are all good, but we replaced the rears with braided items regardless. Fronts were stubborn so left them as they are for now (until we have more time, as we may have to use new nuts and re-flare the brake line ends if the nuts get rounded, which I suspect they will...).

So - lets hope the cooler weather on Nov 6th keeps the brakes cool enough to operate efficiently on track (Bedford)!!

It will be a good bench mark test for standard OBD2/288mm brakes.

The track day is running an open pit format, so we are not under pressure to make the most of the few 20min 'sessions'... so if the brakes feel like they are overheating/fading, we can pull off when ever we like and not feel as though we are missing out on sessions.

By next year, I would probably have to replace the front pads regardless, so will 'roughly' compare how much of an improvement the 'track day special' pads give compared to standard pads.

I'll line up some braking tests to try and put together some quantitative results to compare the different brakes, rather than subjective comparisons based on 'feel and opinion' alone.