TunersNation & GiroDisc donate brakes to Evo X
It seems that no matter how early you start trying to source parts for an event, there will always be last minute surprises. Luckily we have Garfield on our side over at TunersNation.com and he contacted GiroDisc to see if a miracle could be pulled off when he found out that DBA couldn’t deliver the rotors until middle of May. Instead of sourcing in another set of 2 piece front slotted rotors, Girodisc agreed to bump the package up by including a set of Raybestos ST43 Race Pads and Stainless Steel Braided Lines bringing the total parts donation between them to well over $1000! If you haven’t seen these brake components before in person you’ll have to check them out some time as they are something you want to put in a display case.
This is the same winning combo that Ryan Gates has used for his Time Attack racing and I’ve already had great results running these Raybestos ST43 pads on the stock Rotors. Since I was having some issues with rotor warpage on the 2nd day of tracking the car it was mainly due to me pushing the car to higher speeds and giving it less time to cool down. While the rotors should have gotten here Wednesday afternoon, it turns out that somehow Fedex sorted the packages wrong and started sending them back West again! After some concerned phone calls I had them turn the package around but regardless that meant that installing the rotors before the trip was going to be impossible. Luckily they were delivered at about 11 am in Thursday and we departed for South Bend, Indiana by 2pm. While it would have been less stressfull to have these already on the car, the plan is get the rotors and race pads swapped in durig the 7 hr registration period
I fully expect these rotors to cure all my warping issues and the first real test will be at Road America on Saturday, hopefully Sean won’t need to use them too much during the skidpad test on Friday’s start of the week long event. After getting over 27 MPG on the way here it’s time to start putting the pedal down! I’ll be sure to report back once we get some track time on this combo, but I can already tell that these are going to be a winning combo. Thanks again to TunersNation and GiroDisc for getting the Evo X outfitted with the best stock replacement brake combo! You’ll see the car prominently displaying both company logos as we race the car at the 2010 One Lap of America this year.
