Bed Pads Before Every Track Day ??
09-05-2009, 01:25 AM
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Bed Pads Before Every Track Day ??
C6Z06 with stock pads and stock rotors.
I buy slightly used pads from members and then bed them. But since I do a lot of daily driving between track days I thought maybe I should rebed right before track day ??????????????
DH
I buy slightly used pads from members and then bed them. But since I do a lot of daily driving between track days I thought maybe I should rebed right before track day ??????????????
DH
09-05-2009, 09:54 AM
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Are you switching types of pads? I run stock Z06 pads on the street and Hawk DTC-70's on the track. I usually bed the Hawks again before I hit the track. If I swap those pads AND rotors off and throw on another set for the street, I won't bed the Hawks again when I swap the rotors back.
09-05-2009, 11:05 AM
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In the old days (70's for me) there were 2 reasons I heard as to why bed pads. 1) drive off outgassing by-products from manufacture partly similar to why some rotors are drilled/slotted to prevent green fade. 2) transfer some pad to new rotor and the heat is supposed to do something to help cure the pad and improve its life and even promote rotor life by adherance of pad material to rotor. I bedded pads once in my life and it made no difference in performance or life that I could tell. Depending on who you talk to it is controversial whether you have to bed pads or not with modern pads especially as the carbon content of pads increase. I never bed pads because I can't tell a difference but then again I'm slower than Oli and the gang. I think there is a certain segment of the population that always have problems with brakes (regardless of laptimes) and then there are those who never have problems with brakes even on the same car. I can only conclude that driving style has a huge effect on this.
09-05-2009, 05:12 PM
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Agreed. The only reason you bed is to spread pad material uniformly to the rotor. If you don't change the rotor or pads you're golden. Ideally you should bed your pad/rotor multiple times. I bedded my pads and rotors three times (three "sessions").
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San
09-05-2009, 06:11 PM
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Are you switching types of pads? I run stock Z06 pads on the street and Hawk DTC-70's on the track. I usually bed the Hawks again before I hit the track. If I swap those pads AND rotors off and throw on another set for the street, I won't bed the Hawks again when I swap the rotors back.
Race pads are like cheating ........
DH
09-05-2009, 06:13 PM
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In the old days (70's for me) there were 2 reasons I heard as to why bed pads. 1) drive off outgassing by-products from manufacture partly similar to why some rotors are drilled/slotted to prevent green fade. 2) transfer some pad to new rotor and the heat is supposed to do something to help cure the pad and improve its life and even promote rotor life by adherance of pad material to rotor. I bedded pads once in my life and it made no difference in performance or life that I could tell. Depending on who you talk to it is controversial whether you have to bed pads or not with modern pads especially as the carbon content of pads increase. I never bed pads because I can't tell a difference but then again I'm slower than Oli and the gang. I think there is a certain segment of the population that always have problems with brakes (regardless of laptimes) and then there are those who never have problems with brakes even on the same car. I can only conclude that driving style has a huge effect on this.
DH
09-05-2009, 06:15 PM
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09-06-2009, 01:24 PM
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Are you switching types of pads? I run stock Z06 pads on the street and Hawk DTC-70's on the track. I usually bed the Hawks again before I hit the track. If I swap those pads AND rotors off and throw on another set for the street, I won't bed the Hawks again when I swap the rotors back.
I run the same pads, same procedure.
09-06-2009, 02:30 PM
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09-07-2009, 10:46 AM
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09-07-2009, 10:52 AM
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09-07-2009, 12:51 PM
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