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Old 03-25-2013, 12:28 AM   #666
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Originally Posted by UncleFester View Post
Made me go check mine. No cracks. I wouldn't say I brake too late or hard. Fascinating.

What pads have you been running?
CL RC6E. I have confidence in the brakes to the point that I brake pretty late, and very hard. Not the best technique probably to save parts but I've also been trying to push it further and further to see just how late I could go. The RC6E's are sintered fully metallic pads and generate quite a bit of heat, more than semi-metallics from the temp data I gathered. These rotors saw north of 1,200 degrees in less than 20 minutes.

Also, I was driving three cars this weekend, there were a few times when I came off the track and switched cars, which is, IMO what caused the crack in the first place. Normally I give the brakes more cool down and roll the car a bit to reduce hot spots, I didn't do that every time this weekend.
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