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What track were you driving around, what tyres were you using and what car mods have you got. There arent any Sydney tracks that shoudl bother a Skyliens std brakes with RB74s unless you have some serious power.

All for using DS3000s but they are fairly expensive and if you are using them day to day they will squeal their asses off:(   ...and of course the more hardcore the brake compund you begin to run the more aggressive on the rotor they typically are:(

The track was Oran Park south circuit running RE55 tyres.

Car is stock besides an exhaust running 14psi only running 233 atw.

Best lap time was 52.5 i was happy with that considering that was my first attempt on a race track of any kind.

Maybe i have other issues besides the pads?

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R32 ir R33? Either way i would have thought the brakes should have lived...was this the UAS day?

I suppose its the old question, was the pedal firm but the car refuse to stop, no feel in the pedal but still slowed, or was it utter chaos:)

Before spending a fortune just try the old pads and fluid. A brake guy down in Vic made comment to me last year that at club days he thinks too many ppl get on the brakes and coast for a little while before really jumping on them.

This just acts to heat them up whilst your not really pulling the car up. You want to be on the brake pedal for as short a time frame as possible...and as Sydneykid commented the other day increasing corner speed is another way to save your brakes:)

Gut feeling says though if you get the basic hardware working for you, if its still not doing the job then consider a means to get them running cooler.

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I have put RB47's on the fronts this weekend just pased. So far ZERO squeaking, but I have not done any hard braking yet as I am still beding them in... Its good to have a short brake pedal again, my old pads has less than nothing left in them :D

I just bought a pair of RB74 pads from the Racebrakes stand at the Mingara show and shine.

The guy on the stand said that to bed them in do 8-10 100-30kph heavy applications or until the smoke pours off them then drive round using them normally till they cool down.

He said this is to bring the resins in the pad to the surface so it can coat the disc.

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That method of bedding them in might work if you have perfectly smooth disks. I would think that if you had some very light groves then this heavy braking could create hot spots on the pad which could spread???

I dont see how smoke coming for brand new pads could be good for them.

I just bought a pair of RB74 pads from the Racebrakes stand at the Mingara show and shine.

The guy on the stand said that to bed them in do 8-10 100-30kph heavy applications or until the smoke pours off them then drive round using them normally till they cool down.

He said this is to bring the resins in the pad to the surface so it can coat the disc.

djr81 Grand Master

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I just bought a pair of RB74 pads from the Racebrakes stand at the Mingara show and shine.  

The guy on the stand said that to bed them in do 8-10  100-30kph heavy applications or until the smoke pours off them then drive round using them normally till they cool down.

He said this is to bring the resins in the pad to the surface so it can coat the disc.

Hmmm, was there any evidence of him using recreation drugs?

Bedding in the pads entails getting them nice and hot, but not to the point of them smoking! Also, never park a car up with hot brakes - it is a recipe for warping the discs. Atleast the advice about driving around arfterwards is good.

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http://www.dba.com.au/tech/major_considerations.asp

Just looking for some other stuff as well. I use 6 stops from 100 - 40 and then drive a while without stopping completely.

I think the smoke part is overkill but the rest is good.

As for 'grooves' in the disc face, don't sweat it. The pad will quickly conform, especially if you run slots.

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I had a bit of a conversation with him and he knew his brakes.

This method of bedding them in was for rb74s, not necessarily other pads.

Also he told me this knowing I had freshly machined discs so I don't know if he would have suggested something different if the discs were grooved.

My guess is he would have told me to get them machined.

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