The closest race track is about an hour away via easy highway driving, especially if I leave when there is no traffic. Assuming I stay several car lengths behind people (easy), will I be fine driving to the track, HPDE session day, then driving home? OEM rotors, for pads I am thinking bluestuffs on the low end, or some flavor of hawks DTC. Track days are only in spring/fall, so no ice. However, there may be tons of rain.
3.3TT Can I drive with racing braking pads to the track and back?
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BadTrainDriver
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Call or email Ken at KNS Brakes. He can tell you for sure which is safe, and which pads should be avoided. He give reasons, not just heresy.
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Cant quite remember what I was running, I believe G-Lock R12's, and had no issues at Road America with an hour drive there and back. Only side affect was the high pitch squealing when trying to stop lol
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Why is this questionable, since race spec pads and rotors ought to stop any car on a dime anytime? In the wet? They should be better than any street combo. The two drawbacks of race spec brakes are noise/dust and cost. Now, someone point out if I am mistaken and how: I'm always wanting to learn. 
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The issue is that race pads are designed to work at very high temperatures that are well above those seen on the street. Think rotors glowing red. Typically this type of pad does not bite well at street temperatures. The other thing is that race pads at street temperatures can cause excessive rotor wear.Why is this questionable, since race spec pads and rotors ought to stop any car on a dime anytime? In the wet? They should be better than any street combo. The two drawbacks of race spec brakes are noise/dust and cost. Now, someone point out if I am mistaken and how: I'm always wanting to learn.
when I tracked a 1998 Pontiac Trans Am I used Hawk HPS pads. They were a street/track pad and I used them year round in Ontario, Canada. They squealed a lot and produced a lot of dust but braking was adequate on the street during the winter and worked well enough for lapping days (30 minute sessions).
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This. The various color stuffs (green, red, yellow, blue) all say Operating Temperature range of like 100-600F. The reason is that during normal driving, hitting the brakes will cause your rotors etc to get hot, but not super hot. Thus the 100F. But racing brakes have an Operating range of like 500-1500F. So the question is how useless are they on the street? Like can I get to Point A to Point B with minimal traffic and driving slowly? Or is it like they will not even work. They have to work to some extent, or else how are you going to slow down when you take your track car to the pit.
