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Old 01-13-2011   #13
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Re: Carbone Lorraine RC5+ - Pictures & Review

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Originally Posted by MJ23FE View Post
it was recommended to me by Jeff, and later Mike, that I take it easy during the first week of driving and basically baby the car. I was instructed not to heat them up and to keep them as cold as possible. This would allow for the pads to work their abrasion at low temps and basically scrub my rotors which are littered with pad transfer. My hope is that after at least a week of babying the car, my rotors will be nice and clean and I'll be good to go.
If you bed in pads on new rotors properly, the time until you have good braking is a lot less than you specify. Usually it takes me 20 mins or so. I'd like to see some pics though.

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What sort of racing are you doing with these, anyway?
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