986_C6

Do you need to re-bed the track pads everytime you switch back and forth with the street pads? Re-bed meaning like the stop cycles we do when the pads are brand new.

And how long does it take for the pads to closely match the rotor surface again, i.e., just the drive to the track is enough, or after a few laps, or a whole 20-25 minute session?

Thanks for any input.

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YEs

what many ppl do is have two sets of rotors too. That way they switch the pads and rotors

It is not easy to get one kind of brake pad material off a rotor then bed in another brake pad.

and bedding for track pads should not be some ***** footed easy braking. but getting on the brake peddle hard.

as in several 40 to 5 mph stops, several 80 to 5 mph stops and several 100 to 5 mph stops

johninar

I agree with that. Next year I will be using two sets of rotors.
I've never been real happy with swapping back and forth.
Swapping rotors only takes a few minutes extra time.

ZR1 MK

I use Wilwood Ceramic for street and PF01 for track. The PF is aggressive enough to clean the rotors at the track.

jaa1992

For my C4 I have track Pads + rotors AND street pads + rotors.
When I switch to the track setup I hit a parking lot at work then the first couple of laps go easy. My Carbotech pads lasted something like 8 weekends for HPDE.

If you use the same rotors I would bed them in each time you change.

986_C6

I was hoping this wasn't the answer. Doing the stops aren't the hard part, its finding the place in my neck of the woods to do it; without getting in trouble and running into little critters at night.

Thanks for all the feedback guys!

Aardwolf

You can use garnet paper to remove the deposits as well. I've read a site or two that had directions for track bedding the pads but can't remember them right now, someone else remember?

FredSM

Same here. Plus, my track rotors are so fugly, what with all the oxidation. Swapping rotors and pads is now just part of the ritual.

FM

RUN4CVR

I have the same problem....there is so much traffic here in NJ that even at midnight on a Tuesday night its dangerous to even try bedding brakes. Although its not the right way to do it, I often have to wait to bed my brakes until the first session of my track day. You can definitely tell when they start bedding properly. (ie when one side beds before the other, its like having a gremlin pull your steering wheel to one side every time you touch the brake pedal)