I'll be watching this closely

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Err, you can't use standard compound with carbon discs, that's going to end very badly, they work mainly on massive adhesion between pad and disc, not mechnical friction.
They are not like the carbon-ceramic discs on Porches, etc, they're carbon-carbon, it's VERY different, they will barely work when cold, even when hot, you need to HAMMER the pedal to get the heat up at the start of a braking phase and then back off.

If you can contact him, tell him to take them off before he kills himself.

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make sure there's video footage of his first outing into the barriers :/

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My concerns were the following:

-normal brake pads with carbon discs
-you need to keep them up to temperature to work, even the F1 cars struggle sometimes, and they are breaking from insane speeds
-these discs were designed to work on a ~600kg car. Now they have to stop a loads heavier BMW. Even if it's 1000kg, that's 400kgs more than the RB2 was. Brake disc fracture does happen on F1 cars, will be entertaining to see what happens on this one.
-what Mei said about wear - F1 discs are changed after every event (or even every session?) and they check the wear often. If they wear to minimum what will be the indication for him?
-and judging by the words of PhillipM, these simply won't work when cold, and it may be impossible to get them up to working temperature


Well, all I can say:

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As others have said, please to God get video footage of it as I'm sure he'll just go straight in the to the barriers from lack of braking!

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They just won't work full stop, all normal pads will do is plough a groove into the carbon surface and generate the square root of f**kall in terms of stopping power.

At least you'll get to see a massive cloud of carbon puff out when he first stamps on the pedal, before he dies.

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If he's going to use them he needs to, at the very least, get hold of AP Racing for some correct carbon/carbon brake pads.

He's going to cry at the cost and he's going to cry even more when he finds out they won't fit his calipers because they're over an inch thick to deal with the massive amounts of wear - which will be even worse on his car, they wear like f**k when cold - because 'cold' in carbon/carbon terms is <500*c average....and even if he sorts all that, he's going to s**t himself the first time they get damp.

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Oh, and whilst I'm at it, he needs floating mountings in the bells, rigid bolting like that is liable to lead to the disc cracking.

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There aren't any more pictures of this build AFAIK, he only posts these to his facebook account. And no, I will not write a single word to him again, as last night I wrote the following to him on FB:

Hi ****,

How much did these RB2 discs cost? I found a set for sale, but I would like to know if they are overpriced or not, hance asking about how much did you pay for them.



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next time start with "I would like to kindly ask" , and thereafter why the f**k are you asking if you already found a set for sale?



All this after I had my car mapped by him (I have to admit that he's good at mapping ECUs, but suck in choosing brake components), spent a whole day next to him, and we were chatting all day long, and I paid well for his work. On the way home there was no idle at all, but I still did not shout or anything, so I just tried to solve it and after loads of work there was nothing else than the ECU mapping itself I asked him to solve the issue, which we enventually did (I did all the ECU map modifications he told me over the phone). So he wasn't a kock like this before... But lately he's been working on a local TV presenter's car, so he's really high minded...

Will have to see what will be his excuse in the barriers tho.

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best 60' : 2.272
best 1/8 ET : 9.375 @ 74.42mph
best 1/4 ET: 14.603 @ 97.047mph

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At least book onto the same track day so you can film it, preferably with the mic inside the car as a laughter track will greatly improve it!

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that's going to end so badly, even if he had the right kind of pads has he never watched an F1 race to see the conditions they are designed to take

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Trying a Hamilton perhaps? - http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2013/feb/06/lewis-hamilton-crashes-mercedes-f1