Cooper S Brakes on trackday car

[Phil Hill]

Question for the colletive : I recently attended a trackday with my "road legal" Mini Se7en for all intents and purposes. Not very surprisingly I managed to fade out my standard pads within about 5 laps.

I'd just like to canvas opinon and experience of uprated pads, bearing in mind I drive the car on the road as well. Should I try some "Red" (or other uprated) pads first, or am I deluding myself and should I just buy the carbon metallics and monitor disc wear right from the start ??

Any throughts or advice welcome.

Phil.

[Phil Hill]

Thanks to all for the thoughts, you have confirmed what I had come round to thinking.

Just another couple of queries.

I'm currently using a "yellow band" split master cylinder and the pressure regulator/modulator valve as original. I've been through a couple of iterations of rear cylinders until I have a bias I like (I'm using late cooper s rear cylinders now, can't remember the bore size). I'm thinking of adding adjustable bias. Should I just ditch the pressure modulator and plumb the fronts and rears direct off the master, with the bias valve in the rear leg ?? I assume this works by increasing the back-pressure on the rear leg which offsets the fronts in the split master somehow ??

I realise that suspension settings are very subjective, but value your throughts. I set the suspension up with about 1.5 deg negative front and rear, and run a rear anti-roll bar. This made the rear a bit lively in the wet, so should I reduce the rear negative a bit to say 0.5 deg, disconnect the ARB in the wet, or both ??

Thanks once again.

Phil.

[Phil Hill]

Thanks Peter, I appreciate your comments and knowledge !!

Phil.