The best track brake pads

[roadboy]

I think it's both now Dan.

Yeah, I think you're right. Although probably more down to the weight. Pad transfer is a major issue on 14s but not 42s.

308s are pretty big! Are the rears still standard? I would have thought the balance would be awful.

Dan

[Modena Scotland]

The front 42s didn't last much plus they cooked too easily (I am not heavy but I do take a lot of heavy pax ). The 14s are much better. Used to run 14s front and rear but now running 14s front and 42s rear as the 14s rears needed changing (the front changed sometime before the rear wore out and I had the rear ones left). I don't find the balance too bad as I am insensitive but the 14s eat the discs. I am now down to about 3mm left on the outside of the pads so the inside must be close to the change time.

The last KH session was hot but I've never cooked the 14s before that. I suspect this was caused by too much heat transfer by the thin pads. The brakes were smoking & nearly on fire. In any case, I now need to bleed the fluid and change pads.

Dan the next time I change the disc, I will go for the ones you recommend. Thanks again for your input, as always

Scotty, coming from you that is very reassuring. I thought of the CL pads as they seemed to be better value than the 14s/42s. How much for the rear and front? Is RC6 better than the 8? Not really bothered with the noise as I mostly use the CR for tracking.

Neil, which compound did you get?

[mckeann]

i tried carbon lorraines on a couple of cars. Dodgy daves with ebc discs and a class A race winner with 304 AP's. Both were great, depends how much you want to spend. With 250bhp and heavy car, you might need the bigger discs.

I'll be fitting CL's to my ebc discs before frolic.

P.s. No idea on compound. I think daves was the road setup, but its great on track.

[alicrozier]

I think it's both now Dan.

Yeah, I think you're right. Although probably more down to the weight. Pad transfer is a major issue on 14s but not 42s.

308s are pretty big! Are the rears still standard? I would have thought the balance would be awful.

Dan

Yes and yes...

[neil]

Neil, which compound did you get?

I went for the RC5+ pads, along with AP discs (295F,290R). Probably overkill for my driving but I'm wanting to do a bit more track time this year.

[Scotty C]

Mass

Not sure about the 8's.

I changed my front disc to AP 295 with Ali bell centre's (made by Stu), you can use your existing calipers and stu can give you spacers. he also fitted mine for me, but it takes less then half and hour, But you might need to bleed your brakes after.

Makes a big difference. 1.03 mins

http://www.lotuscupeurope.com/videos.html

[shortie2]

Best kept secret in motorsport is the mintex F4 pad compound , very very loud but if you can handle that they never give up, they will wear the discs but no where as bad as performance friction 85 compound and the likes

[brian]

Neil, which compound did you get?

I went for the RC5+ pads, along with AP discs (295F,290R). Probably overkill for my driving but I'm wanting to do a bit more track time this year.

That's the pads I fitted.
Got them off eBay with 2 bottles of brake fluid thrown in.
First impressions are good and they don't squeel as much as the Pagids did.
They're also supposed to be kinder to the disc but I'll have to wait and see.

Cheers,

Brian

[Andy G]

RC6 on their way to me

[TrackScotland]

We use XP10's on both cars... cant fault them on stopping power. Not the longest lasting (wear) and are quite rough on discs