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And do you have any plans to take the car to the track at all?
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Yes, but this is my DD and it's not getting its brakes checked/rebuilt often while being driven in the winter with all that nice salt. |
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I appreciate the feedback about your experience considering most forum members haven't had the opportunity to see/hear both setups. :happy0180: It certainly makes a lot more sense to have the Formula setup when you have to deal with road salt in the winter. It makes the decision tougher for me since I don't have that to worry about.
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Don't have road salt? Get the Sprint kit; the fact I DD through winter is what turned me off to that caliper. Unless you're looking for rotor flushness, in which case the Formula kit has the larger diameter rotor vs. the Sprint kit. What I will say is that Essex has the support structure in place for their kits; there will always be parts on the shelf if you need one overnight. |
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The only real advantage the Formula kit has over the Sprint kit is massive heat sink reserve from the disc mass and pad area which would be of benefit if you are making much more than stock power....if you are making close to stock power the weight penalty of the Formula Kit verses the Sprint kit is just really not worth it. Formula kit is chosen more for appearance (versus Sprint kit) unless there is a massive increase in the power level of the motor that could actually benefit more from having the Formula kit installed over the Sprint kit. The Formula kit will not slow the car down any better than the Sprint kit in nominal conditions and is more likely to have slightly increased braking distances over rough surfaces (due to unsprung mass penalty and the extra work the suspension has to do compared to the Sprint Kit)
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I've got the Sprint Kit on a daily-driven BRZ. Car will not be driven when there's salt on the roads. Have three track days on her now too (Mid America Motorplex in IA). I've started with the Ferodo DS2500 front and rear.
Overall, I adore the kit. According to Harry's Laptimer I was putting down 1.2G's of sustained lineal deceleration on street tires (max perf Dunlops). They look badass and hold up amazingly well on track. I'm mostly novice, but don't need an instructor. For useage context, I was doing a 1:54.xx or so at MAM and passing some, but not all, of a Porsche Club "green" group. Not sure if I'm doing something wrong, but my experience so far has been: - initial bed in on streets: no noise, some color on rotor. - track day one: some noise, some color on rotor. - a week or so of no noise on street really (minus a stop squeak now and then) - track day two: lots of noise developed under hard use. noise on street after track day two - track day three: pads finally off-gas significantly...I go off the track nearly straight just starting to trail brake when the pad grip just disappeared, no other change in feel or pressure. I'm a noob, so I'm guessing here - I'm assuming it wasn't "ice mode" because after that, the rotors were a beautiful grey/blue color, and the pads suddenly did not make any noise on track. They stayed well composed for another run or two afterwards, and for a week off the track. That included glorious street silence for a week. - A week post-track: the rotors are all silver again and squeak like a raped monkey. It's horrendous and far, far too much for a daily driver. Again, I'm a noob, but I'm guessing the pads are not getting up to temp on the street and are just scraping off their bed layer, then being bitchy (noisy) about it. - I tried to re-bed the pads...did about 15x 80-5mph stop cycles. Pads were quiet again for about three days. My conclusion (again, as a n00b): - The AP Sprint kit is flipping great. Well worth the no fade, repeatable, awesome performance. Also, looks insane on the car. - Even if you are a noob or intermediate, the AP kit ventilates so well, that in moderate/chill temps it's tough to even bed in the DS2500. - After bed in, the DS2500 will still wear it's bed in layer off in a week of street driving and squeal like a mother What does this mean to me? For a DD, I don't recommend the DS2500 as a dual use pad. I could be doing something wrong (dear god, someone enlighten me! and I'll fix this post), but it just gets noisy over time. I think a set of street pads and then track pads are probably the way to go. I am amazed some folks are running other pads dual use...either those have much better noise levels...or my hearing is just too good. Edit - I wonder if shims or grinding the edges of the DS2500 down to an angle is worthwhile? Edit2 - (removed; OBE) Last edited by jonnyozero3; 05-20-2013 at 08:03 PM. |
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Unfortunately you will just have to get yourself something more hard core for the track and something very weak for the street. Sucks. I know some of the hard core guys on here will tell you that if you bed your pads you can run race brakes on the street. Well that all depends your track vs. street time is. If you are at a track every weekend that pad layer will keep getting built up. If you are only tracking once a month or two. Its going to be going to be gone in a week of daily driving.
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I absolutely agree the Sprint kit is the way to go if it's not a 4 season vehicle or salt isn't an issue. |
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Ah, didn't realize there was a 4-pot Formula kit for the fronts...
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On the Endurance kit, you can run the taller 50mm radial depth pads:
Ferodo DS2500 FRP3116H
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Hi Guys,
For the track, I always recommend swapping to full race pads. If you like high bite, try one of these two compounds (these are the part numbers for the Sprint Kit, the Endurance Kit can run these or the taller radial depth version): Ferodo DSUNO FRP3097Z CL Brakes RC6, CL5051W39T20.0RC6 If you like a more moderate level of mu, try these: Ferodo DS1.11 FRP3097W CL Brakes RC6E, CL5051W39T20.0RC6E (the pricing is off on our site now...I'll fix it soon) As Dezoris points out above, when running any type of aggressive pad cold, it's always going to be scraping the pad material off of the disc, and exposing the bare metal. That leads to noise every time. Have you guys seen the video I put together on how to swap between different types of pads? It explains a lot of what is going on in the discussion above. Take a look and it should be easier to understand vs. me writing a novel about it. :happy0180: Quote:
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I have run ds2500 in a few cars before and they have always been completely silent. Why are they all of a sudden so noisy on these calipers and is there anything that can be done to quiten them down?
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