Well, I took the car out to the track last week with the group that went out to Adam's Motorsports park in Riverside. The track is pretty much just a big kart track, which isn't such a bad thing as it's quite technical and has got a good mix of turns. All of the changes we made to the car made a huge difference - I mean a night and day difference. The car might understeer a little turning in now, but it's not bad at all. Exiting corners is insanely easy the way it is set up too. I can almost plant the gas and take off, when it's almost straight I can let it go wide open, and the car will step out just enough to straighten out. Then it just goes. The only issue I had was bad pad knockback issues. I had to tap the brakes once to get reasonable feel back, and twice to get the pedal all the way back to the top. On my last lap I forgot to tap the brakes up after a long straight and the pedal fell almost to the floor, needless to say, I put the front two wheels off track.
So, I've been talking to Cris G and his Wilwood friends, as well as Tobin at Kore 3 and have decided to try a somewhat affordable solution to lessen the apparent knockback. For now, I'm just going to go with a C6 Z51 rear brake setup and see how it works. It's a floating rear caliper, and I don't think I need the huge 4 piston setup on there now. It's not like I'm doing any serious, sustained roadracing, and even then I ran a Z51 'Vette at Bondurant, and never really noticed the brakes fading badly. If I'm not happy with that I'll swap to a 1" bore master and if the problem still persists I'll try the SET20 bearings that are shipping on Moser's axles now. I also decided to swap pads to the Hawk HP+ instead of the ceramics because the ceramics don't have much of an initial bite to them, especially when using manual brakes.
If none of this works, I think I'll be going Greg's route and getting a pair of 6.70 x 15s or maybe I can trade Doug for his rear drum brakes.
Matt
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