Thoughts on the new EBC RPX pads

[Coz]

Anyone have any ideas?

I'm not sure if you have Sport Mode available for the Stability Control on your 2011. If you don't and take curves on the street (or mountains & valleys in TN) in a spirited manner, that may be wearing your rear pads at a faster rate. As far as I know, turning just Traction Control off still keeps stability control on unless you do the 10-second press and hold and turn everything (except ABS) off.

 

[EF1]

On track I always do the 10 second hold. Spirited street driving sport mode. The street miles on these were easy brake in miles on the new ring and pinion in regular mode with all nannies.

 

[EF1]

Car is in the shop this week. I'm having a set of custom brake cooling duct tubes designed and 3d printed out of carbon infused material. They will attach to the fog light holes in the 2011-2012 Boss/CS lower fascia allowing the 3" corrugated hoses to attach in the wheels wells. This should reduce the chances of the corrugated hoses getting kinked/torn by the tires and make changing the hoses much easier when needed. Currently I have to pull the front bumper cover to attach new hoses to the fog light openings. This will make it easier by allowing hose changes without removing the bumper cover. It should also improve air flow as the new rigid tubes will be smooth inside instead of corrugated. I will post pictures when I get them in a few days.

I posted this in the wrong thread. I intended to post it in my build thread. I will post pics when available in the build thread.

 

[EF1]

Time for another update on the EBC brake pads. I did 2 days at Carolina Motorsports Park with the Carolina Regional Mustang Club the first weekend of October. I left the RPX and Girodisks on the front since they still looked pretty good. I swapped back to a used set of DBA 4000 series rotors and tried the EBC BlueStuff pads on the rear. I liked the front/rear balance better than I did with the RPX pads on all four corners. I occasionally got into the ABS with RPX on the rear. This wasn't a problem with the BlueStuffs. The balance was more like the GLoc R16/R12 set up. I still like the RPX pads on the front. I have a total of 6 track days on them and they look to be a little over half worn at this point. I like the bite, stopping power and modulation on the fronts. The rears just didn't hold up. I was hoping that the BlueStuff rears would be the ticket. Once again I like the feel and breaking ability, but it is at the cost of very short life. The BlueStuff rears have 2 track days and no street miles and only have 3-4 mm of material left. I just don't see me using a pad that is only good for one track weekend when there are other options out their that have similar feel and much better life.