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Originally Posted by WingsofWar
iv also worried about this, when i tracked my S14 for the first time i thought i had a good brake setup with R32 front brakes and a large Master Cylinder, with performance pads and new sets of brembo rotors. But i still experienced reallllly bad brake fade because of inadequate ducting..figured it out when local guy who was tracking with me that day took a digital thermometer to my rotors and it hotter than 2 naked Brazilian chicks massaging each others tits...
I know im going to track the FR-S...i hope they provide good ducting to cool those brakes....and speaking of brakes..i hope they provide some big aluminum 4pots.
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Unfortunately, big, high quality brakes are almost a waste if the car doesn't have any ducting.
You've read Car and Driver's Lightning Lap story with the Nismo 370z right? Their 370z (equipped with huge brembos) boiled it's brake fluid and suddenly lost all braking power with no warning at 130mph. It hit the sidewall so hard that they had to use heavy towing equipment to pull it out of the wall. They did a big story on it afterwards too, to figure out exactly what went wrong. They concluded it was the ducting. Replacing the pads and fluid let the Z's brakes last much longer, but they still faded much more quickly than the 450lb heavier Camaro SS, which surprisingly experienced essentially no brake fade, even though it's braking surface area to weight ratio was worse.
http://www.caranddriver.com/features...ng_lap-feature