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Originally Posted by Msquared
They were probably legit flames, not just sparks. It's just that it doesn't mean there's a problem. They'll go out as soon as you let off the pedal and keep rolling. Check out this video of a guy bedding in his brakes. You see literal flames. He makes the mistake of full stopping at the end of his last braking event, whereas he should have kept on rolling and gotten off the brakes and let them cool a bit first. But in any case, before that last one you see flames that go out as soon as he gets off the brakes again. No big deal.
The two big problems with brakes on a track are if you exceed the temp where the pads have their best friction, and if you boil the fluid. The latter is obvious and you get a soft pedal. With the former, if you keep driving all-out you'll keep needing more and more pedal pressure to slow down, which just compounds the overheating problem and you eventually lose braking effectively. But the point here is not to worry about what they look like, but rather pay attention to how they feel. |
Awesome advice. The brakes did feel and operate just as good as the original Brembo/Ferodo pads, I just erred on the side of caution because of the flames comment. I've bedded well over 1,000 sets of pads in my life for my customers normal street cars which always smoke and smell until cooled, but maybe 20 sets of high performance pads which obviously need quite a bit more heat put into them to be optimal.
Fluid BTW was fresh Motul RBF600 so that obviously held up well to the excessive heat as the pedal was great.