Bedding-in Street Performance Pads
by Matt Weiss of StopTech and James Walker, Jr. of scR motorsports
For a typical performance brake system using street-performance pads, a series of ten partial braking events, from 60mph down to 10mph, will typically raise the temperature of the brake components sufficiently to be considered one bed-in set. Each of the ten partial braking events should achieve moderate-to-high deceleration (about 80 to 90% of the deceleration required to lock up the brakes and/or to engage the ABS), and they should be made one after the other, without allowing the brakes to cool in between.
I just changed the pads on my car. Ceramics were on it and they squeak pretty bad. I installed new ceramics and want to bed them in using the StopTech proceedure outlined above.
My question is this, where in the hell am I going to go to do 10 braking events (one after the other) from 60mph to 10mph @ 80-90% of lockup? I'm not sure if I will get a ticket for unsafe operation or wreckless driving :confused2:
Seriously, do you guys do this?
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by Matt Weiss of StopTech and James Walker, Jr. of scR motorsports
For a typical performance brake system using street-performance pads, a series of ten partial braking events, from 60mph down to 10mph, will typically raise the temperature of the brake components sufficiently to be considered one bed-in set. Each of the ten partial braking events should achieve moderate-to-high deceleration (about 80 to 90% of the deceleration required to lock up the brakes and/or to engage the ABS), and they should be made one after the other, without allowing the brakes to cool in between.
I just changed the pads on my car. Ceramics were on it and they squeak pretty bad. I installed new ceramics and want to bed them in using the StopTech proceedure outlined above.
My question is this, where in the hell am I going to go to do 10 braking events (one after the other) from 60mph to 10mph @ 80-90% of lockup? I'm not sure if I will get a ticket for unsafe operation or wreckless driving :confused2:
Seriously, do you guys do this?
.