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Does your 370Z suffer badly from brake fade?

I've done plenty of canyon carving on the sport pkg brakes with no fade what so ever.

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Old 05-24-2012, 12:24 AM   #16 (permalink)
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I've done plenty of canyon carving on the sport pkg brakes with no fade what so ever.
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Old 05-24-2012, 12:24 AM   #17 (permalink)
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Street I had NO FADE with regular fluid. But now I have upgraded Stop tech brake pkg for my akebono and motul rbf600. Also about to purchase the stillen brake cooling kit as soon as I'm done with some other mods... the Z brakes are near perfect with this kit and stillen's brake cooling will make it flawless. Total cost of upgrades... $1000
Stoptech brake pkg for the akebono brakes? Did you swap out the akebonos? Sorry a bit confused on the wording.
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Old 05-24-2012, 12:26 AM   #18 (permalink)
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Stoptech brake pkg for the akebono brakes? Did you swap out the akebonos? Sorry a bit confused on the wording.
No its like the Z1 upgrade but stoptech has there own.
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Old 05-24-2012, 02:39 PM   #19 (permalink)
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its stoptech rotors, and maybe lines
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Old 05-24-2012, 02:45 PM   #20 (permalink)
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the brakes will basically let up to about 30% of capacity under heavy braking on less-than-smooth surfaces. It is (most likely) a fault with the ABS controller
Yep, and it's not just an issue with the Z. There are issues on cars you'd never think of such as ice mode cases with certain years of the GT3 RS, Lotus Elise and Exige, Camaros, Caymans, well you get the picture. Specific events can trigger ice mode regardless of the car.

Oh, and I have base brakes and have only experienced the slightest of fade on the fast downhill section of Mulholland chasing a GTR and E90 M3. I am going to upgrade the pads and fluid soon, then I will have complete confidence in them.
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stock non-sport ran fine just fine on aggressive dragon runs. fwiw
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stock non-sport ran fine just fine on aggressive dragon runs. fwiw
To be fair, the dragon isn't much of a test for brakes. There's really only a handful of spots where you are even dropping from 80.


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Yep, and it's not just an issue with the Z. There are issues on cars you'd never think of such as ice mode cases with certain years of the GT3 RS, Lotus Elise and Exige, Camaros, Caymans, well you get the picture. Specific events can trigger ice mode regardless of the car.

Oh, and I have base brakes and have only experienced the slightest of fade on the fast downhill section of Mulholland chasing a GTR and E90 M3. I am going to upgrade the pads and fluid soon, then I will have complete confidence in them.
yep, pretty common. IMO, it is a bit more pronounced in the Z (kinda comes on in more surprising situations), but it is nothing new.
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