A quick Alcon brake review (glass half full for Dan) ;-)

[shane@mbtech]

Can't tell now ;-)

but yes I believe they were yellow and I know that RS29s are yellow. So are RS19s though so not quite conclusive. I'm pretty sure I was told they were RS29. Makes no odds though, proof of the pudding will be this weekend.

Laptimes

[AlexGTT]

Strange issue you have. I'm running AP's, PF discs and RS29's (like very many CSL owners) so maybe not comparable to your Alcons but the noise/vibration you talk of does happen occassionally to my car. But it's usually just getting rid of pansy :gayfight:road driving deposits on discs/pads. After a good warm up on track it's gone completely and all day is fine. In fact, the harder I use them the better they seem to get. Never had fade issues at all, even on the hardest braking tracks.

One thing I do tend to do is very gently/progressively bring them up to temps on my first laps. But I guess you do the same.

Be interested to see how you get on with xp's. Maybe it's just down to driving style, as you said. You bloody animal.

[shimmy]

My rs14 are lovely and I stamp on my brakes :beer:

[AlexGTT]

Laptimes

Your a f*ckin' animal as well. But we love you for it.:smt055:hahaha:

[shane@mbtech]

Your a f*ckin' animal as well. But we love you for it.:smt055:hahaha:

Big hug for you at snet Alex :smt055

[shimmy]

Laptimes

Did he answer about his lap times, not that times matter

[AlexGTT]

Did he answer about his lap times, not that times matter

:whistle:

[titan]

pff its a trackday so "no bloody timing!!"

vbox says 2.02 round oulton though. Not particularly impressive, even on road tyres, but I don't fancy binning the car as its just been finished ;-)

[shimmy]

pff its a trackday so "no bloody timing!!"

vbox says 2.02 round oulton though. Not particularly impressive, even on road tyres, but I don't fancy binning the car as its just been finished ;-)

Bet you wished you thought like that 6 months ago

[shane@mbtech]

pff its a trackday so "no bloody timing!!"

vbox says 2.02 round oulton though. Not particularly impressive, even on road tyres, but I don't fancy binning the car as its just been finished ;-)

2 mins round oulton will be faster than 85-90% there on a typical day.

I ran a048's.

[titan]

If anyone has vbox traces around Oulton, send them my way :-)

A048s eh ? The daddy of the expensive tyre indeed. A tyre I have never ever tried due to their pisstaking expense in fact.

The idea behind running "crappy" hankooks was to lower the speed at which things start to get interesting to understand whats going on and learn how to control it. I found that on cup tyres you're just raising the bar, so when it does finally get interesting you're now doing 20mph more and still no idea of what to do :-)

[shane@mbtech]

If anyone has vbox traces around Oulton, send them my way :-)

A048s eh ? The daddy of the expensive tyre indeed. A tyre I have never ever tried due to their pisstaking expense in fact.

The idea behind running "crappy" hankooks was to lower the speed at which things start to get interesting to understand whats going on and learn how to control it. I found that on cup tyres you're just raising the bar, so when it does finally get interesting you're now doing 20mph more and still no idea of what to do :-)

The idea behind running crappy hankooks was they had no 888's in stock remember,

As a benchmark, my best round Oulton on a048s was 1.56

When I bought the a048's they came in at approx £900, 888's cost just shy of that now.
Cups in the same size are 1050-1200 ish:bigcry:

[titan]

The idea behind running crappy hankooks was they had no 888's in stock remember

Sssh. Thats a different explanation ;-)

[funtime]

Titan, any updates on this? I may need some pad's for my Alcon's soon - it would be good to see what you thought of the Carbotech's

Also who is your supplier for the pads?

[JezP]

Titan, any updates on this? I may need some pad's for my Alcon's soon - it would be good to see what you thought of the Carbotech's

Also who is your supplier for the pads?

Give Ian a bell he knows everything you need to know :smokin:

http://www.carbotech-europe.com/