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Drag Racing Discussions => Front Engine Dragsters => Topic started by: PSweeney on September 08, 2014, 03:28:38 AM
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I will be running Strange rear calipers, what pads to you guys run ? thinking a soft pad on a rear braked dragster ?
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I will be running Strange rear calipers, what pads to you guys run ? thinking a soft pad on a rear braked dragster ?
Strange has two different compounds for the calipers in my dragster, I put the softer compound (less aggressive) in when I changed them out this spring.
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I ran the Strange softs for many years, but they suggested I go with the hard compound when I replaced them this year. I have 20 or so passes on them and from a functional and "feel" standpoint, I don't notice a difference. I am curious as to how they wear the rotors.
Steve K.
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thanks guys, my concern would be their grab in the shutdown up setting the car under braking. I think I'll go for soft . I'm not sure what pads I had in my altered Wilwood, but they did wear the disc grooving it quite badly after a season or so running them
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thanks guys, my concern would be their grab in the shutdown up setting the car under braking. I think I'll go for soft . I'm not sure what pads I had in my altered Wilwood, but they did wear the disc grooving it quite badly after a season or so running them
You can tell which pads you had by the color of the backing plate, black is soft
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I have the new Moser brakes with floating rotor held in by giant spirolox--they came with hawk black which is a pretty soft pad--I noticed they stopped my first pass from 120MPH very well with zero brake in etc--rotors have some grooves after three passes but that has to be from rocks and crap getting lodged in there--they felt great right from the start---it looks like it is a Volvo part number on the box--gotta love that
Only Volvo part ever on a FED?