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How do you do yours?
I found this link below but just wondering if people have a nice proven method?? http://www.braketech.com |
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Then you put your wet wheels on.............
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Sorry mate, don't get it??
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Lawman: Don't you have a second set to go with your wet wheels?
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Is it me or was that a load of old rubbish!! Bed in takes 3-7 laps, well that's free practice or qualifying gone out the window.
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Going back a few years now but we certainly had wet and dry sets of pads, not least because we wanted materials appropriate to the conditions. Brake pads have I believe come a long way since then (1990's) and I suspect now even the racing pads have a broader spread of operating parameters.
We also used practice days to bed in spare sets of pads (it was more to do with heat cycles than the actually disc to pad contact patch if I remember correctly). Remember your dry set-up will get a harder time than your wet one, although having brakes with a "nice" feel is more critical in the wet...... Also worth bearing in mind that you would have to know a circuit pretty well and be confident in the conditions to turn up and do your first three laps at full tilt. |
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I tried to do mine that way.
(Don't glass bead blast rotors unless you have a good method of getting all the beads out of the floater buttons.) Unless you've got pretty uneven/grooved rotors, I always thought they bedded in well in one practice session. I had to use them really hard early in the first session once, and it didn't seem to hurt. After I did it, I just considered them bedded. I had cast iron rotors on my rain wheels, and stainless steel on the drys. The difference in thickness was a pain, but I didn't change pads. And Red, if you're racing, you do get very familiar with the tracks, so you do a warm up lap when they let you on track, then get right up to speed and start working on things, or seeing how things you did are working, or racing with a buddy. If it's raining, you might take a couple of laps to feel things out.. |
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