Excellent info... Yea I was full on the brakes with pagid blues and there was no hint of ABS. I already have a set of SS lines I've been sitting on now for a good 10 months so. I think I'll install them and pick up some Pagid blacks and see if that gives me what I'm looking for.
How noisy are the Blacks on the car? Driving around a Lotus with squeaky brakes gets a bit of attention around here.. lol
Thanks...
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Originally Posted by xtn
Dragon I will strongly suggest you try the Pagid RS14 next time before you spend a lot of money on increasing rotor size.
I was running the blues with oversized RA1 tires at the track, and found I could barely reach abs on smooth straight pavement. I'm sure with your A6 tires it would have been impossible.
But when I switched to the blacks I got more power with less pedal pressure. Exactly what I was looking for.
Pagid also makes a couple of compounds with higher friction than the RS14 so if you want to bump up your rear brakes you can do that too. I spoke with Craig at Rennstore, who has charts of the relative friction values of the different Pagids at various temperatures. I asked him about the "Gray" compound because I had seen on the chart that it's friction values - even cold - were higher than all the rest. He recommended against it because he said it's so grabby on these light cars. But if you really needed more friction on the rear that bad, you could try it.
xtn
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