Speed News vol. 1 Issue 4-May : Page 55
Running pads with different characteristics front and rear can help balance the braking system. “One of the good reasons [to fi gured out how to maximize braking power and life. use split friction] would be to The fi rst step is to help balance out your brake determine the brake operating system to give you maximum temperatures (see sidebar). brake front and rear based That information can go a long on a system that you could way toward solving braking be restricted to under the problems, or even exposing rules,” says Mathew Roskey, ineffi ciencies a driver may not motorsports sales manager at have even known existed. Hawk Performance Products. “Once you have the He and fellow motorsports sales manager Edwin Mangune temperature readings and where they run, you’re able travel to tracks around the to match up the material country all racing season long that is going to perform in to see how their products are being used and offer advice to that temperature range the way the driver wants it,” says racers on how to get the most out of them. As a result they’ve Roskey. “How much torque you’re going to get from the pads, how it modulates, what kind of feel the driver wants from the pedals. Once you have the temperature range, a drive can choose pads for the feel he or she wants.” Often those pads will be different from front to rear to achieve the desired outcome. Mangune outlines a couple of different scenarios where he has used split friction to come up with a good solution. “Typically, in a Mustang or Camaro, a car with a live rear axle, often the rear brake will want to lock up,” Mangune 55
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