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MightyBobo

05-20-2009 09:25 PM

Name the car part(s)!

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ChrisSlicks

05-20-2009 09:29 PM

Caliper piston welded to what is left of a brake pad?

xRUSTYx

05-20-2009 10:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ChrisSlicks (Post 75800)

Caliper piston welded to what is left of a brake pad?

damm! good guess! :tup:

ZYUL8R

05-20-2009 10:09 PM

Now that was a really hard track day!!

MightyBobo

05-20-2009 10:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ZYUL8R (Post 75819)

Now that was a really hard track day!!

More appropriate answer is, thats what happens when your good track pads run out, and you decide to run shitty Autozone Wearever brake pads on a hard track day :)

Thats about 3 25-minute sessions worth of abuse, btw. Started a nice fire, and his caliper was destroyed.

wstar

05-20-2009 11:42 PM

Wow, you'd think you'd notice something's not right with the braking and stop the car before you got to that point :)

MightyBobo

05-22-2009 12:15 AM

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Originally Posted by wstar (Post 75859)

Wow, you'd think you'd notice something's not right with the braking and stop the car before you got to that point :)

Actually there was no warning at all - it went from stopping "normally", to that very suddenly when he had a hard braking zone (naturally). I think a lot what caused the pad to bend around the piston happened after he pulled off and someone found his brakes on fire, so an instructor grabbed his car and drove it around the parking lot without touching the brakes to cool em down.

Shook the guy up a little, to say the least.

CBRich

05-22-2009 09:08 AM

So the moral of the story is don't track AT ALL with cheap pads? Got it. That is ugly.

MightyBobo

05-23-2009 12:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CBRich (Post 76466)

So the moral of the story is don't track AT ALL with cheap pads? Got it. That is ugly.

Correct-o.

eXo5	05-23-2009 01:01 AM

wonder if the lession was learned

MightyBobo

05-25-2009 07:52 PM

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Originally Posted by eXo5 (Post 76926)

wonder if the lession was learned

Well, considering he's my buddy and we KNEW the pads would barely last a track day (actually, I bet it'd last 2 sessions - they went on the 3rd session)...yes, I'd say so.

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