Bake your EBC pads?!

[Leaf001]

For those members whom installed EBC Green pads and painted them another color with a high temp paint, did you "cure" the paint as the instructions tell you to? According to the can I bought, I'm supposed to bake the part in an oven for 60 minutes at 600 degress! I guess they usually use these types of paint on headers and blocks, so all you have to do is start the car...but with my situation... Any ideas?

-Leaf

 

[V10 MOJO]

nah man dont worry about that BS. just get high temp paint, place em face down, and paint em up. i let mine sit overnight (warm and dry day; yep we actually have one of them in Ohio occasionally) put them on next day and ill tell ya; what a difference!

 

[shifter]

When I painted my rear EBC brake pads, I used Duplicolor hi temp paint that matched the intake. I put on 4 light coats of paint to adequately cover. I let them sit for almost 2 days to dry (no baking). They looked great.

When I when to remove them from my car to put on some racing pads, the rear pads were quite stuck to the caliper. It required a rubber mallot and a screwdriver to get them off. I also had to take an emery type cloth and lightly sand the paint off the caliper piston.

I'm not painting anymore rear brake pads with spray paint. Powder coating may work much better.

 

[Chuck 98 RT/10]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Leaf001:
60 minutes at 600 degress!
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That's what the pad supplier does before they deliver pads to the NASCAR teams.

 

[Steve 00RT/10]

I painted mine with the hi-temp barbecue paint. They sat a week or two before I was able to get them on. No oven baking. I did have to grind the backing plate on the the front pads(side)to get them into the caliper--just a little.

The manual says 15-20 stops from 40 over a 6 second period. I thought I remember a while back a more severe burnishing method?

Anybody do it different from the manual?

Steve

 

[MadMaxx]

if you do super-heat your pads, so it on the bbq grill.. not inside!

MadMaxx

 

[Steve 00RT/10]

The EBC paperwork does say 'avoid emergency braking for the first 200 miles'(not 300). I had read it, but deferred to the Viper manual.

At any rate, 40 to 0 over 6 seconds most certainly does not constitute an emergent stop.

Steve

 

[GTS Dean]

I can't quite understand the motivation behind painting your brake pads as a fashion statement. I don't care what color they start out - I paint them with different colors of Tempilaq and see which colors get charred. Then, I know just how hot they got baked from friction heat.

 

[Chuck 98 RT/10]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by GTS Dean:
I can't quite understand the motivation behind painting your brake pads as a fashion statement. I don't care what color they start out - I paint them with different colors of Tempilaq and see which colors get charred. Then, I know just how hot they got baked from friction heat.

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I'll help you Dean. Here's a hint: It's something Vipermad would do.