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cossie1600 · 10-12-2011, 07:56 PM

I don't know why you guys are wasting money on the brakes when you are not tracking the car. The stock brakes are plenty powerful. The stopping power is excellent for a stock car in its price range. Anymore powerful and you will easily overwork the tires and get it into ABS. These cars can pull 1G on average under braking, other normal cars need slicks to archieve that.

MightyBobo · 10-12-2011, 08:15 PM

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Originally Posted by cossie1600

I don't know why you guys are wasting money on the brakes when you are not tracking the car. The stock brakes are plenty powerful. The stopping power is excellent for a stock car in its price range. Anymore powerful and you will easily overwork the tires and get it into ABS. These cars can pull 1G on average under braking, other normal cars need slicks to archieve that.

Probably because many people feel that if it happens on the track, if could happen on the street.

Which is ridiculous of course, because you'd have to be a nut to cook your brakes that hard on the street anyway...

m4a1mustang · 10-12-2011, 09:34 PM

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Originally Posted by MightyBobo

Probably because many people feel that if it happens on the track, if could happen on the street.

Which is ridiculous of course, because you'd have to be a nut to cook your brakes that hard on the street anyway...

Or be at ZDayZ.

MightyBobo · 10-12-2011, 10:51 PM

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Originally Posted by m4a1mustang

Or be at ZDayZ.

Lets be honest, if you drove that road like a normal person, it wouldnt happen likely. Or, if you werent stuck behind someone being forced to threshold brake at every corner potentially lol.

The Dragon is an exception to the rule.

Skeeterbop · 10-13-2011, 12:37 AM

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Originally Posted by MightyBobo

Lets be honest, if you drove that rode like a normal person, it wouldnt happen likely. Or, if you werent stuck behind someone being forced to threshold brake at every corner potentially lol.

The Dragon is an exception to the rule.

Honestly, even on the dragon you would have to drive like an idiot and be going way faster than you should be to cook the brakes. I didn't even get them to start fading on back and forth runs with no rest in between.

Mt Tam I am · 10-12-2011, 09:36 PM

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Originally Posted by cossie1600

I don't know why you guys are wasting money on the brakes when you are not tracking the car. The stock brakes are plenty powerful. The stopping power is excellent for a stock car in its price range. Anymore powerful and you will easily overwork the tires and get it into ABS. These cars can pull 1G on average under braking, other normal cars need slicks to archieve that.

My dilemma as well. I live on a mountain, push myself and still don't cook the brakes. It took me 12 years to use up the stock pads on my 300ZXtt. Tires are pretty much an annual event. I did get 7250 miles out of the long wearing Potenzas.

If I were to auto cross I can not imagine using them long enough between sets to lose them either. Maybe I'm wrong.

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cossie1600 A True Z Fanatic Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: californee way Posts: 5,380 Drives: 370, Leaf Rep Power: 31	I don't know why you guys are wasting money on the brakes when you are not tracking the car. The stock brakes are plenty powerful. The stopping power is excellent for a stock car in its price range. Anymore powerful and you will easily overwork the tires and get it into ABS. These cars can pull 1G on average under braking, other normal cars need slicks to archieve that.