Just to throw a spanner in the works

[KingStromba]

Clio cup race cars ran standard calipers, standard discs, standard hoses and a track pad.

There races were 20 laps long and the person i spoke to about it said no cars suffered from brake fade.


Discuss

[Jan]

I've not had brake fade in my williams yet. Not been on a track or owned it over the summer though... yet

Do i drive like a faggot or are the oe brakes that good? Discuss

[big hp]

Coming back from FCS racing my mate and his g/f (both driving VTS's) through Milton Keynes which is about 5 miles of straights and roundabouts I didn't get any fade, and i really was stamping the brakes on and it was short straights before the next round about, thus not giving them time to cool. I have got Brembo max discs but even then that shouldn't make a difference. Williams brakes are more than adequate.

My mate even commented on how late i was braking and how aggressive my braking looked. He also said his brakes faded on every R/A for last mile or so.

[northy]

can get mine to fade off at 30mph lol on one application.

I dont think the abs helps much on the 3's

[Lunner]

Never had any fade around FCS, and that was 20+ laps

[KingStromba]

can get mine to fade off at 30mph lol on one application.

I dont think the abs helps much on the 3's

What pads are you running though?

[richy]

not really had any problems with mine tbh, but not tracked them yet, tbh id rather trust a set of wilwood 4pots then a 10year old set of calipers lol

[edde]

I ran the k-tec big disk conversion so that should in theory be better and I faded that after just two laps.
Maybe racing drivers drove within the margins of the brakes more or maybe the tyres couldn't handle more braking power so the brakes were nevber stretched as much.

[2 live]

they just used their sequential boxes to slow down quicker

i managed about 5 or 6 laps or so of oulton before i had no brakes wotsoever......can get em to fade quite easily after some serious abuse

which is why 4 pots will be makin their way onto mine too

[richy]

^^ the reason why i got mine so dont have this problem!