So as mentioned in my last post of the track day I overheated my pads which I had just put in for that track day. So Phil from Intima sent me out a set of the Type D's as I've always been on the SR's. Maybe I've out performed the heat limit that the SR's have. I was going to upgrade to these once I did my Honed Development kit overhaul, but why not lets just give it a shot now.

I've booked in for one last Wakefield day on the 9th October with a track club called MWSCC. I have always said once I hit the 1.09s I've gonna stop and do my mini overhaul on the car, however a member from MWSCC has been suggesting I join one of their days for a while. I know my tyres are nearing the end so I thought why not lets have one last day and just "send it".

Time to get cracking on car prep. Removed the wheels to install the new brake pads, upon checking the 2 front tyres they seem to be worn in all different angles, my guess is from the camber and toe out? Also noticed this blue tinge around the outside of both tyres, few friends said thats from it going through heat cycles or something.. This will definitely need replacing after this track day I think, what tyres should I move to or shall I stay with the Nankang AR-1s again.

With the pads removed it seems obvious they definitely overheated, the cause? No idea why, maybe I didn't bed them in properly, the previous 2 sets of SR's have been perfectly fine. The colour coating on these were originally silver yet now a golden colour. The pad material itself was all torn up all round, guessing they were just crumbling apart under heavy braking, quite strange. I still managed to be jump on the brakes hard at the last minute like normal still.. I'll include some photos below of the pads themselves.

Onto the rotors, these DBA T3s have been very good for the past few years. Quite expensive, not 100% sure if I'll return to them or try running just blanks as I've seen some regular track goers do. The min thickness spec is 19mm, as shown in both photos they are on 20mm so after the 9th October Wakefield day I'm sure they'll be done for. Also have a decent sized lip on the edge of rotors, although no point machining with 1mm left.

Cleaned out all the dust and crap from the previous pads disintegrating, the light blue Type D's look quite nice! Really do look forward to trying them out at the track!

Part Two ~ 6/10/2020

Fast forward 2 weeks and it's now Monday the week of the track day which is on the Friday 9th October. I originally had planned to remove the heater as I've never hooked up the control unit as mentioned in a previous post where I removed the control unit, however I've simply run out of time as I'm quite busy with work. I decided put the car back together as I removed the center console to take the sound system out.

Got the chief engineer on site making sure the car is ready to go..

As I cut the plug to use the headunit in my EF9, I had yet to sort it out. When I do my little overhaul over xmas/early next year as I keep saying, I'll be removing the dash to hopefully install a CRX dash. When doing so I'll remove the wiring for headunit, along with the heater control unit etc.. So for now I just taped each individual wire and then taped them back so they don't short out on anything.

Okay so now onto the juicy content.. Last night (Tuesday night) I went out to bed in my new Type D brake pads. Chatting with Phil from Intima he said I really need to follow the bedding in instructions for all pads, but especially the Type D's. It consists of 5 x 60km to 5km gradual hard braking with no dragging of the brakes, followed by 5 x 80km/100km to 5km really hard braking with no dragging of the brakes.

Decided to go to a nearby industrial area as it seemed a 'safe' environment to carry out my task, with a nearby highway for higher speeds if required.. The smaller 60km braking went well with the brakes already feeling great. Then I did 2 100km stops and on the second one I hear a knock which turned into clunking on the passenger side wheel area. I had a bad feeling in my gut it was the driveshaft, however as it was on & off I decided to do the 3rd 100km brake which made it a lot worse.. I then babied the car home and investigated the car about 9pm which seemed to conclude it was the drive shaft somewhat already blown.

The photo below shows all the grease that had squirted out everywhere.. These shafts have been in the car since I did the B swap and I've had no issues with.

My only option was to remove it and get it rebuilt, I knew the drivers one has always clicked on full lock so I decided I might as well do both. Quickly removed them and took to a mates house as he has a good rebuilder nearby, and he could get out and do it during the day which I couldn't due to work.

Tonight (Wednesday) I went back to his to pick up the minty fresh rebuilt drive shafts, quickly went home and installed, topped up the gearbox and everthing was sorted! Went out and finished off the brake bedding in and everything feels great. With that the car is ready for Wakefield, stay tuned for the next post on the weekend hopefully of the updates from the track day.