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Originally posted by barnoun
Makes sense about the car...I remember seeing a clip of a guy rolling a subaru legacy. He was not happy(good thing insurance paid for the damage). As for the advice, fine then, I'll consider it a tip As for more questions, right now only about the brakes. What's your brake setup(you mentioned fading)? I'm thinking when I attend the first event I'll probably have basically the same setup I have now, stock besides ss brake lines and better pad material. How's your system hold up? You have to pit every couple of laps to let it cool down or can you last a 20min. session...
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I think that you might be referring to the Imprezza at Limerock? Was he following a Porsche and was it a sort of uphill turn that goes to the right? If so, that's Limerock and that's what ultimately made me realize I needed a rollbar. I was scared of that turn all day and left all sorts of time at that turn.
Although a few friends keep telling me my brakes are fine and I'm overly sensitive, I like to bleed my brakes quite often. Last event I bled them but wound up having to go from 80 to 0 ASAP with an NSX spinning in front of me. That boiled the fluid so it wasn't all that great before I got to Limerock. I did two sessions without bleeding because it's a dirt paddock and hard to get the car up on jackstands without it being a total pain. You probably wouldn't have much of a problem with brake fade for your first few times out. It's only when you really start pushing the car that you might have problems. One friend of mine keeps telling me that if *HE* is not fading his brakes *I* should not be (he's faster than me so it's reasonable)
I have NX calipers/rotors, SMC brakelines, NX master cylinder, and am running Carbotech Panther Plus pads on the track. I'm also running race rubber which helps quite a bit with grip when trying to brake so hard with aggressive pads