ssjoeboe9

Yes, You want to bed the brakes in.

It literally bakes a thin layer of your pads onto the rotors and this helps with longevity/ stopping power and even wear.

I think the higher end rotors/pads even give instructions on the process.

opboarding

35% with 5% strip.

My side/rear windows are 35% and sometimes I have a hard time seeing out at night and roll them down. This guy is an idiot if he thinks that his vision is fine at night.

robpp

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agreed with Joe.

i go to an industrial area on the weekend. also its near a highway to go cool them off.

its a 10 hard stops; the pedal starts to fade and the farkers are smoking. then i head to the highway for a good 20 minute drive without hitting the brakes to let them cool.
Done.

most brake psd company have specific instructions online usually.

robpp

iTrader: (2)

35-50 is what most do on windshield.

to each his own. i have never. but i have tinted sides and others since the mid 80's when i first saw tint. most 20%.

Harper

I saw a TL today with the letters on the TL badge reversed. Acura LT Type S.

xtcnrice

wow what a moron

mrstak

iTrader: (1)

ryan, the guy is in the 3G TL section. enough said.

iSeeYouTwo

I think I have the same rotors as you. I went with the stop tech slotted rotors and posi quiet pads.


Do you or rob have a link to the bedding process? Gonna give it a shot today when I install them.

robpp

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For a typical performance brake system using street-performance pads, a series of ten partial braking events, from 60mph down to 10mph, will typically raise the temperature of the brake components sufficiently to be considered one bed-in set. Each of the ten partial braking events should achieve moderate-to-high deceleration (about 80 to 90% of the deceleration required to lock up the brakes and/or to engage the ABS), and they should be made one after the other, without allowing the brakes to cool in between.
Depending on the make-up of the pad material, the brake friction will seem to gain slightly in performance, and will then lose or fade somewhat by around the fifth stop (also about the time that a friction smell will be detectable in the passenger compartment). This does not indicate that the brakes are bedded-in. This phenomenon is known as a green fade, as it is characteristic of immature or ‘green' pads, in which the resins still need to be driven out of the pad material, at the point where the pads meet the rotors. In this circumstance, the upper temperature limit of the friction material will not yet have been reached.
As when bedding-in any set of brakes, care should be taken regarding the longer stopping distance necessary with incompletely bedded pads. This first set of stops in the bed-in process is only complete when all ten stops have been performed - not before. The system should then be allowed to cool, by driving the vehicle at the highest safe speed for the circumstances, without bringing it to a complete stop with the brakes still applied. After cooling the vehicle, a second set of ten partial braking events should be performed, followed by another cooling exercise. In some situations, a third set is beneficial, but two are normally sufficient.



for more details go to adam's rotors site. he has it all spelled out. he sells those same pads.

iSeeYouTwo

Thanks for the info rob! I think I'm going to have a problem finding a place to do this though.

rawger

I bet he has a blast driving at nighttime. Not like you need to see what's in front of you, right?

Harper

Just do it on the highway.

robpp

iTrader: (2)

yup highway at night.....


i found an industrial park right off the highway. between highway and airport.

Harper

Bad picture of the LT Type S:

opboarding

Why are you not in your tsx harper? Blasphemy.

Harper

Because of reasons.

Here's a TL with CU2 wheels. And a fail CLS 550.

xtcnrice

Cls 550?

Harper

Rebadged c300.

Oops, I meant to write CLS300

VR1

CLS 300 lmfao. I saw a IS250 with a F sport badge on it.

rawger

IS 250 F Sport is a real car though.

Vinny_P

Love the CLS300.

You also see a lot of 3 series who add the M badge on...the quarter panels and the exhausts are always a dead give away...320 M for the win!!!!

Though when it's on a 335 you know they still have a serious car...but why ruin it by posing with a M badge.

Jaheri_cbp

Yo! Idk about using this cheap orbital for polishing my car but when you spray lexol on the pad it makes one hell of a leather cleaner!! Holy shit this is awesome! Lol

MC MiYoung3269

LOOOL

VR1

Mercedes>BMW

But who is William Lam? lol

rawger

Good ol' Justin passing the solid white lines. So classless of him.

rawger

Lol, never heard of buffing your seats, but good to know!

Harper

So crabmans alive?

Jaheri_cbp

Try it out I dare you!!

Jaheri_cbp

http://youtu.be/NNDnjusKzhQ

Sorry that's William Hung

rawger

She bang! She bang!

rawger

Lol, I'm still looking to buy a polisher. I think I give up with eBay and will buy from a site. I was just wondering whether to get the 10-foot cord or 25-foot cord now. I found a pretty good deal with a coupon, though. It goes for 150 shipped on Amazon, but with a 16% off code + free shipping from AutoAnything, it can be had for 135. I just need to find out whether the 25 foot cord is worth it. I tried to see if they would price match Amazon and give the code, but they said no.

Edit: Looks like 135 for the 25ft is a good deal regardless since Amazon wants 140 for the 10ft.

VR1

http://www.cars.com/go/search/detail...nal&listType=1

iCrap

Drove up to Canada, the amount of nice cars here is crazy, while sitting in front of the hotel a SLS AMG, 760LI, m5, c63, f12, gt3 all passed me.

Also the number of riced civics is astounding.

xtcnrice

Whereabouts in Canada? There are a lot of nice cars in downtown Toronto. But I like in the 'burbs... and the cars are like, 90% corollas/civics around here.

iCrap

montreal yesterday and now quebec today.

Apparently when the f1 track is not in use you can drive your car on it, drove the odyssey on an f1 stage lol!

EhkoXC

Wait, seriously? That sounds like a ton of fun.

I have a good friend who lives in Montreal. Time to take the TSX on a roadtrip!

iCrap

Yea but i left out the part where you can only go regular road speeds

I dunno if they have days where you can actually race on it. that would be so much fun

EhkoXC

Less fun in that case, but could still be worth it!

xtcnrice

I love Montreal. Heading there next weekend

But yeah depending on where you are, there are alotta nice cars. Food is amazing as well