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You don't have to fret about tire wear to and from the track if you zero the toe when you crank up negative camber. I've been running -3.5deg camber full time for a couple years with zero toe. I drive around 7k street miles per year, mostly surface streets, and see fairly even wear across the fronts. I benefit from having a square setup, so I can rotate front-to-back. On camber plates' adjustability: TCKline are not adjustable on the car; GC and Dinan are, though. K-MACs are very difficult to adjust without alignment equipment, so I recommend saving that for the shop lest you screw up your caster (which can make the car feel quite funny).
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Did talk with Jay at Ground Control yesterday, and learned a little more, specifically that the toe change with camber is very similar to a '95 M3 (which is friendlier than 96+), so may go with 0 toe at -3 degrees and leave it be, and still have some workable options to go a little more or less to get even wear at the track. |
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The issue I had: you have to be precise in having the holes lined up, and you have to have the slider perfectly square with the top plate. The buckling spring causes the slider to tilt with respect to the top plate, making it very, very difficult to achieve this squareness. This is especially true for higher camber adjustment levels.
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Would there be any other downsides to running them on both street and track? |
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My local track is a small 1.3 mile road course with crappy pavement. It's not great but it's ok and well laid out. Doing that once or twice a year at the most and a couple auto cross events would you still recommend changing pads and fluid? I know most of the answers above in this scenario are yes for sure you still need pads and fluid but I wanted to double check as my track is quite small.
Again same question regarding camber. i know the front is not adjustable without plates... I remember back when I tracked my STI before I adjusted the camber it beat up on the front right tire pretty good. is the camber on the M2 better suited stock or will it be pretty much the same story without an adjustment? |
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As for track use, after a seatbelt, brakes are the single most important safety item. Don't take a chance. It's not worth it. Drive slow on the track or get better pads.
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My local track is a small 1.3 mile road course with crappy pavement. It's not great but it's ok and well laid out. Doing that once or twice a year at the most and a couple auto cross events would you still recommend changing pads and fluid? I know most of the answers above in this scenario are yes for sure you still need pads and fluid but I wanted to double check as my track is quite small.
Again same question regarding camber. i know the front is not adjustable without plates... I remember back when I tracked my STI before I adjusted the camber it beat up on the front right tire pretty good. is the camber on the M2 better suited stock or will it be pretty much the same story without an adjustment? |
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So I just did Laguna Seca on these pads, and they were great! More than enough braking. Out of everything on the car, it had A LOT of braking. A few notes.
1) As mentioned the RSL29 clank when parking, moving in and out of the pits, going from reverse to drive. Makes "race car," noises. Kinda alarms you at first in a brand new car. 2) I didn't experience any fade. These are endurance pads meant for 3/6/24 hours? I imagine fade can happen with stock fluid, but I didn't change out the fluid. No boiling. Was fine. 70 degree perfect day. 20 min sessions. 3) I only beat my e36 m3 track car time by 1.5 seconds. Best time 1:49.2 I guess that's pretty good for an out of the box m2. Professional drivers are doing 1:40??? Holy shit on a stock m2? I think we need to not change any more parts and just learn how to drive faster! Having said that, front tires and camber are totally fine and more than suitable for a simple day at the track, but did feel limiting, if you've experienced better. Pressures in the front tires hot were getting up to around 38-40psi. I was noticing a little rollover as well. I didn't want the pressure any higher, and lowering it would cause even more rollover. I just learned to ease up a little and try to not enter too hot and just acknowledge the front limiting grip. Since I am a track nut, it's hard to not add camber and get a stickier tire. I feel the stock setup is fine if you want to DD your car and just go out for some fun on the tracks. Also with the pros track times, I plan to just get better using the stock setup. Stickier tires can make up for driver's bad habits and make you faster. But damn some camber and r spec tires would really be fun! Honestly if you're not a track guy and wondering about the brake pads...just leave them, you'll be fine. If you then go out and feel a ton of fade or that they could be "better," go ahead and change em out for next time! But don't feel like you have to "get in there," and change everything, just go run it! I think the track people can understand these points and make the call themselves pretty easily. edit: I just changed my pads back to the stocks and took a look at everything. Pads look like they got pretty hot. So who knows how the stocks would handle that kind of heat. Also the front tires were typical of that "no camber," type of wear. The tread in the middle of the tire was pretty torn up. Even if the pros can squeeze fast times out of the stock setup, that doesn't mean it's going to hold up or look pretty when you're done. And probably isn't a "long term," track solution. Last edited by Prollig; 03-14-2017 at 12:35 AM.. |
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Shamless plug but I'm selling a 80%+ material set of Pagid RSL1 track pads for F8x. Ran them for 2 short days on my M2, tons of life left. Asking less than half price of new, $330 shipped. These are the top of the line Pagid offering.
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If you go too low the TPMS light will come on and you have to start the reset phase as well. Initially I just did something like 29F 31R cold...came in and bled them while they're Hot as soon as I got to the paddock. |
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Would you say in your opinion that the stock pads are still a 1-2 day a year track worthy pad? Does anyone know what the stock fluid is rated for temp wise? is it 600f? better? I'm really trying to not have to change pads and fluid to go once or twice but will if I have to or am risking wrecking the stock components. |
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I am a beginner with only 5 track days under my belt but yet I did toast my OEM pads in one day at Laguna Seca. Upgrading to the PFC08 of the next event.
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For a complete beginner though, say going on their 1st or 2nd track day, who isn't going to push the car anywhere near as much as more experienced guys, are stock pads ok?
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