Anyone ever experience Brake Failure as C&D did?

ChrisSlicks

It doesn't really matter how many miles were on the car, even with brand new stock pads you will burn through them, and as a result boil the fluid. An inexperienced driver will not recognize the softening pedal and keep pushing it instead of backing off. When the fluid boils you will lose the brakes instantly. VIR has some high speed braking zones that will generate a lot of heat.

The brakes do generate a lot of heat and there is nowhere for the heat to go and little to no airflow. The stock pads accelerate wear dramatically when the temperatures exceed 500F, this is the primary failure - soft, low dust pads. The more the pads wear the more heat that gets conducted to the calipers as the pads act as insulators. When your calipers start to heat the fluid past it's threshold you're in trouble. And it doesn't really matter if you upgraded your rotors and calipers, if you used stock like pads and fluids the problem would still happen.

So the problem is not the brakes, it is just the pads. Use high temp, low bite pads (low bite so as to not upset the ABS) and upgrade the fluid and you won't have a problem. The Stillen brake ducts won't hurt things either if you are a regular at the track.

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