not much stopping power

[Jerry Can]

hello,

I have a Pug 106 race car on standard calipers but with upgraded pads, pagid blue, and EBC heat treated discs, running 5.1 brake fluid.

I might be going a a bit mad - it's been a while since I last raced the car, but just moving the car around the garage, at low speed < 5 mph it takes an age ( plus 5-10ft) to bring the car to a stop.

I have deglazed discs and pads, changed fluid but no discernable difference. Now I think it is nothing to worry about, and that once the brakes are hot they'll work better, but I can't ever remember the car being like this when cold.

Would a good few hard laps of braking sort this out? any one got any other ideas?

[227bhp]

Old hard used pads do this.

[Jerry Can]

so will a bit of hard lappery sort it out?

[E-bmw]

PAGID RS4-2 (known by many as 'PAGID Blue') are EC90 road pads and I would NOT expect them to fall into the same cold bite issues of race/rally/track compound pads.

[DaveV6]

I've ran Pagid blues (in Impreza's) before and they did need a bit of heat to work. Still stopped you when cold but took a bit more pedal pressure.

[E-bmw]

DaveV6 said:

I've ran Pagid blues (in Impreza's) before and they did need a bit of heat to work. Still stopped you when cold but took a bit more pedal pressure.

Dave, the OP is not talking about "a bit more pressure", he is distinctly talking of a problem not akin to the usual characteristics of Pagid blue (street) pads.

[Jerry Can]

just to bring some closure to the thread as I know you'll all be on tenterhooks, but a couple of heavy brakes on my out lap sorted it. - phew! just got to sort the clutch and damper out now.

[SebringMan]

I'd have gone with normal discs or Brembo High Carbon discs or the ste that EBC sell.