desslok40

stock rotors are not sufficient when drag racing, I have plenty of friends with warped rotors to prove it as well as mine so premium rotors with more material equal less chance of warping. my point was if he wants to drag race get better rotors/pads don't spend $3500 on a big brake kit, won't work with 17" wheels and they are no way worth that price to begin with...

Norm Peterson

Something isn't adding up quite right. Unless your shutdown room is really short or these guys are trapping a LOT higher than stockish GT speeds, you shouldn't need to be using more than about 0.5g deceleration to slow down from 110 mph. That's only moderate braking.

If this is happening because drivers are trying to hit the earliest possible turnout to the return road, that's not really a hardware problem as far as getting slowed down from an individual run is concerned. Think along the lines of (poor) braking technique and feeling pressured to get back in line as soon as possible.

One other possibility - do you suppose that people are either holding the service brake or setting the P-brake while the rotors and pads are still hot? These are not good practices, since the heat dissipation will be uneven. If you cannot completely avoid doing this due to pavement slope at your local track(s), the best thing you can do to minimize this is to hit the last turnout and not hurry back to expose the brakes for the greatest amount of time to moving airflow.


Norm