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Originally Posted by cmiovino
Two things:
First and foremost, make sure that when you show up to your first track day and/or you're doing maintenance ahead of time, don't be changing things like brake fluid and pads the night before or morning of the event. Give it a day or two so you can go drive the car around and make sure everything is good. I had a buddy show up and forget to put his master cylinder cap back on tight. Either came out during his first session or on the way to the track. He borrowed mine to do complete the day.
Second, some feed back "bite" and feel. I used to really like pads that had crazy initial bite. I ranked pads based on that feeling when you first engaged them and that was about it. Now I like more progressive pads. I don't love pads that bite like crazy at first and change their feel as you press harder. I'd rather have a pad that engages more linearly based on you input.
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LOL, exactly what im doing right now! lol.. but yeah i'll be driving the car to the track and have a support van close behind me with all of my tools incase i need to do any emergency repairs. but thank you for the advice and good points!
To your second point, i 100% agree. bite-in is but only one variable that i need to consider when looking at how the brakes behave during a track session. but being aware of, and experiencing it for real are two different things unfortunately, and i definitely need to get slot of seat time over the next season to figure out exactly what i want/need.
thank you for the advice!