Ice mode solution?

Mike

I don't think that most braking zones at my tracks (VIR, Barber, Road Atl, Little talladega) have many bumps. Maybe at Roebling, but I've only been there the one weekend and don't think it did at all.

I do 90% of my braking in a straight line, stabbing the brakes hard and then trailing off into the turn. I used to street brake, but Sharif and Bryan Settle cured me of that. I actually think that I am only able to keep up with faster cars because I brake much later and make up lots of time there.

Cossie,
On the C6, I had a widebody conversion and ran Z06 brakes for 2/3rds of the time I owned it. On both the Z51 and Z06 calipers, I ran hawk HP+ pads, but until my last year in the C6, I was only doing 2 track days per year and not at the level I am now. 3 years ago, my last year in the C6, I started doing two per month for 6 months a year. The only brake issue I ever had on the Z06 is when ALSM driver Shields Bergstrom took me out for a session at VIR driving my car and he boiled the fluid, but had no ice or fade issues either.

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spearfish25

I did some hot laps with Shields at Autobahn in Joliet. We were in a race-spec Audi TT. That dude can drive...

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Mike

He was about 30mph faster than me everywhere, but he gave me the confidence in my car that I picked up about 10mph throughout the track.

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cossie1600

T1 at VIR is bad. You get in at the wrong spot and you will get ice mode. I had a Z51 C6. The brake issues on that car is the same thing as my 370Z. The C6 did have more front bias and carried way more speed down the straight, it can be nerve racking going into T1 at 146mph! I have gone as deep as the 4 marker, but the brakes would burn right up and I would get nothing for the next corner.

I used the same Carbotechs on both the C6 and 370.

Speaking of EBD, I don't know if you guys had an issue with the car grabbing to one side under braking. For some odd reason, my car loves doing that at Watkins Glen. I am not sure why, but it sure flips me out to get the car grabbing right at over 100mph. 0411 370z WGI Unstable brakes.avi - YouTube

ChrisSlicks

It's the pavement there, concrete patch on one side and asphalt on the other. One side has more traction than the other and it pulls as a result. Fortunately it pulls you towards the corner so it's not all bad and it is after the initial braking application.

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