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Originally Posted by GearheadSS
1LEs brakes are far superior to the standard SS for track duty. I'd recommend a brake fluid change on both models prior to track use though.
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I think this is the biggest difference functionally. I met someone tracking an airport rental Camaro SS at MSR Houston a few years ago and they ran out of front brake pads before the weekend was over. I have never come close to using a whole set of stock front brake pads in 2 days at that track in my SS 1LE with the stock 220 treadwear Goodyear Supercar 3 tires. Although if they had bought and installed the plastic track cooling air deflectors it might have helped a bit.
You could buy and install the 1LE suspension kit and 220tw tires on a regular SS and probably get close to SS 1LE lap times but the stock brakes probably would not be able to handle the usual 20+ minute sessions of fast laps found at most HPDE events without excessive front pad wear.