05-10-2024, 09:23 AM | #1 |
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Carbotech 1521 Rotor Wear.
For you guys running the Carbotech 1521 how are your rotors holding up? I just looked at a Supra that has had them on for 11k miles and the rotors are pretty groovy. They have some autox time on them and 1 HPDE day. What do your rotors look like and miles. I am about to order if they don’t eat the rotors like what I just saw.
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I’m not by the car now, but they are just super groovy like a vinyl record. They work fine.
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Here is a pic of how grooved they are but they work fine.
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I have been using CT 1521 for 25 years on S2000s, an e46 M3, an e46 330ci, e92 M3s, a f22 240ix and a f82. I’ve used them in stock, AP Racing and PFC calipers. The 1521 are by far the friendliest street performance pads with minimal rotor wear. You can go thru at least two sets of pads before needing to replace rotors. However, I always properly bed new sets of pads and get a good pad transfer layer on the rotors so I have no idea what the wear is like on improperly bedded pads and rotors. They have excellent initial bite hot and even good initial bite when cold. I have quite a few friends that run these pads with similar results so I have no idea what’s caused the grooves in the rotors. Improper bedding? Aggressive braking with cold pads and rotors?
I would highly recommend them as a street-only pad. They are not be used in autox and on track. Their XP12 and XP20 track pads are great for the track; however, I’m a PFC-only track pad user since mid 2000s |
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I've only had them on for a couple weeks but if anything they look like they polish to rotors more than anything. Very gentle. I can't believe how little dust they produce. Two weeks of DD and my wheels still look clean. I had xp12s on the car prior and the 1521 has given me a few oh crap moments because they require more pedal pressure. I have brake coding done, so this may not be experienced with stock programming. Carbotech told me not to bed them and no need to scuff the discs because I was using the xp12. Overall I'm happy to be running this pad on the street. Rotors should last longer with this pad, no noise, low dust. They will stop you no doubt and I feel like some aggressive driving will be fine as long as you don't have a lot of quick hard braking. Give them a bit of time to cool and should be no problem. I don't think you'll have to baby the pad. Just be mindful that it will start to give. I haven't read any feedback on how this pad starts to let go when temps are exceeded. Is it gradual and then hits peak inefficiency like the stock pad, or does it completely let go so there is virtually no braking?
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This is interesting because CT told me NOT to bed the 1521 in, and that doing so would cause glazing. They recommended 300 street miles before hard use as the bed-in. |
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Carbotech told me the same thing regarding 1521 bedding.
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Well, I’ve been doing this for close to three decades without issue. The problem with driving regularly for 300 miles could mean a panic stop at cold temp at mile 15 of 300 which could result in pad and/or rotor damage. I don’t bed them in the same way I bed-in a race pad. It’s fewer stops and from a lower speed delta. It results in a perfect uniform pad transfer layer. I’ll stick with my own experience with the pad. |
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Any suggestions on where to buy Carbotech 1521 pads? Thank you.
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I’ve been tracking for 36 years and over that time period I’ve learned a thing or two about street and race brake pads and it’s not always in agreement with documentation provided by pad manufacturers. If you have enough experience you should be able to modify and/or fine tune things based on your braking and driving styles. Will what I do work for everyone? Probably not. The key is to be able to threshold brake without engaging ABS. Engaging ABS is the worst thing you can do if you’re properly bedding-in brake pads and rotors. The included photos show 1521 brake dust on wheels after 400-600 hard miles. Not sure why the second pic is rotated. Last edited by M3SQRD; 05-12-2024 at 02:45 PM.. |
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My experience goes well beyond tracking and I’ve been driving for more than 36 years. My background is technical so I have a better understanding of brake pads and braking systems in more advanced applications than cars. I guess you also missed when I said the 1521 bedding-in process is different from race pad bedding-in process. Based on your ride height, it’s obvious you’re part of the stance crowd. BC dampers? I guess you missed my latest update. Directly from CT so there must be reading comprehension issues: Please note: The 1521 compound does NOT require bedding in. Put the pads on a clean rotor surface (like new) and drive normally for the first 300 – 400 miles. No special procedure is required. “JUST DRIVE THE CAR”. The bedding process transfers friction material from the pads into the pores of the brake rotor. It also matches the microscopic contours of the pads and rotors to increase surface contact. Proper bedding of pads & rotors will result in greater performance, longer pad life & less rotor wear. Failure to properly bed in your pads could lead to friction materials chunking and breaking up. This could also lead to overheating your pads and causing them to glaze over resulting in the car not being able to stop or slow fast enough. Last edited by M3SQRD; 05-12-2024 at 11:38 PM.. |
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How do your rotors look? Do they have a grayish color on the surface? If it looks more like bare metal then rebedding will help improve braking performance. If you get used to the initial bite of the XP12, any pure street performance pad will require the leg pressure of an F1 driver to develop the same level of braking torque. It takes time to reacclimate from a race pad to a street pad. |
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Front looks a little better than the rear. Rear has a faint layer of material. A rebedding procedure will likely improve your street braking and minimize the oh 💩 events. I ran the brake bias calculation of the 2NH brake setup and was surprised that the front is 67.6% vs. the f8x blue calipers and 380/370 rotors is 62.8% front. An almost 5% shift forward is significant. It explains why Essex created a kit specifically for the f87 M2C which is within 0.2% of the stock bias.
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