Breaking in brake pads

[Chuck 98 RT/10]

I saw a tech show about how the pad provider for NASCAR puts the pads in an oven at 650 degrees for 8 hours to burn the resins out of them. I wonder if this would do a better job than the 40, 60, 80 slam on the brakes method?

 

[Janni]

Some brake pad manufacturers "bake" their brakes to accomplish the outgassing usually done by the bedding / heating precess. For example, Brakeman does. It also appears that Performance Frisction does too, as their pads are labeled "Race Ready". I much prefer this to the 20-40-60-80 stops methods - kinda hard to find a good place to do that....

 

[Janni]

Jon,
Maybe the 90's are different- the 01 compounds that we just put on Henry's car last night say "race ready", and did not come with any bedding / outgassing instructions so I am assuming they are prebaked. Maybe I'll have Henry call Sean to be sure. Thanks.

 

[SoCal Rebell]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by JMcGuire:
Interesting, when we put the PFC 90's on my car -- and when I say "we" you may assume that Sean actually did the work, and I stood around babbling and asking stupid questions -- we then went out and did the bedding process.

I definitely felt the one-time heat fade effect.

I thought that effect was part of the bedding process. Am I confusing it with something else?

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From what I understand the one time fade is normal, it's called "green fade".

 

[Chuck 98 RT/10]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by JMcGuire:

And for my final trick, I'll preemptively disarm the great Chuck Babel:

If it had been an F1 tech show, it would have involved toxic strange-matter materials unstable at room temperature, bonded in a 5000-degree kiln in a zero-gee low-earth-orbit lab. The average viewer would merely shake his head at the inscrutable complexity and expense, then check to see whether "The Man Show" had started yet. Even the hardened F1 fan would be forced to mutter, "Dang, that's sumthin' HOT!" (or in Texas, possibly just "Whoo-eee!").

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Nice preemptive strike by "my name is not Jim." You covered everything even the expense which was my only hope for a good shot back. So I'm left with only one thing to say, in my best NASCAR redneck voice...
A$$hole.

 

[GTS Dean]

There is a company that supplies pre-bedded rotors and pads to the racing community. Practice time is often too precious to spend on this trivial stuff when they need to focus on shock, spring & aero adjustments, fuel usage measurement and tire scrubbing.

 

[Vip-RT10]

JM and Chuck...too funny...LMAO