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I was at Summit Point this weekend with Chin Track Days (great HPDE org, btw.) for both Saturday & Sunday. I showed up with about 70% pad life on my OEM track pads.
Now in my experience, the OEM pads do okay at a track day as long as they’ve got a good amount of life left in them and you can keep going at a good pace and clean air keeps getting pushed over them. However, they are very sensitive to getting hot. I ran about a 1/2 lap behind a car waiting for a pass and at the end of the straight, I felt brake fade. The pedal traveled about 20% more than it should.
And then at the next corner, it got worse. Even when I got back in clean air, they didn’t cool down. My instructor and I went out into town and the were STILL hot after 5-10 minutes of driving. I’d had this happen before and I realized - 70% wasn’t enough pad for a track day on the OE pads.
I asked around the paddock and there were another set of OE pads available from a fellow V3 owner, but the on-site mechanic had a set of used (lol) Ferodo pads with the DS 1.11 compound. They had about 50% life left. I paid the man (reasonable…but unexpected expense, so ouch. Thanks, Mike!) and he swapped the pads on for me.
Holy crap, night and day difference. I could beat on these pads absolutely endlessly. No fade. Clean air, dirty air…even with less pad material these pads out-performed brand new OE pads. It’s expected of course, track pads vs OE pads, but I wanted to get this information on the forum as another contender when people are searching for a non OE option.
I was at Summit Point this weekend with Chin Track Days (great HPDE org, btw.) for both Saturday & Sunday. I showed up with about 70% pad life on my OEM track pads.
Now in my experience, the OEM pads do okay at a track day as long as they’ve got a good amount of life left in them and you can keep going at a good pace and clean air keeps getting pushed over them. However, they are very sensitive to getting hot. I ran about a 1/2 lap behind a car waiting for a pass and at the end of the straight, I felt brake fade. The pedal traveled about 20% more than it should.
And then at the next corner, it got worse. Even when I got back in clean air, they didn’t cool down. My instructor and I went out into town and the were STILL hot after 5-10 minutes of driving. I’d had this happen before and I realized - 70% wasn’t enough pad for a track day on the OE pads.
I asked around the paddock and there were another set of OE pads available from a fellow V3 owner, but the on-site mechanic had a set of used (lol) Ferodo pads with the DS 1.11 compound. They had about 50% life left. I paid the man (reasonable…but unexpected expense, so ouch. Thanks, Mike!) and he swapped the pads on for me.
Holy crap, night and day difference. I could beat on these pads absolutely endlessly. No fade. Clean air, dirty air…even with less pad material these pads out-performed brand new OE pads. It’s expected of course, track pads vs OE pads, but I wanted to get this information on the forum as another contender when people are searching for a non OE option.
