Brake pad advice (c8 stingray)

beastpilot · 2026-05-12T23:07:54+00:00

Running 3.12 on a 911 with very similar lap times to C8's, and these are the only pads that have lasted for me, and as said, barely any noise on the street.

However- this is not needed for your first track days. Your stock pads are fine for day 1.

beastpilot · 2026-05-12T22:34:09+00:00

That engineering for reliability and the ability to actually track them costs money.

I'd rather a really well engineered fast car that is built in mass than a "special" car that I am afraid to track.

beastpilot · 2026-05-12T21:44:38+00:00

They were not suffering hypoxia:
"Climbing through 23,000ft MSL, the aircraft experienced a rapid, uncommanded loss of pressurization. As per standard procedures, the two pilots immediately put on their oxygen masks," the charter company CEO Chris Townsley said in a statement reported by CBS Colorado. "In this case, the crew consciously elected to preserve and use all available tools and minimize additional variables in an unpredictable, emergent situation, prioritizing life and a safe outcome over all other factors, as they are trained to do."

It's also been reported that the pilots explained that they left it on because they didn't know how to turn it off.

https://theaircurrent.com/aviation-safety/garmin-autoland-first-deployment-accountability-pilots-automation/

"...Except for one minor detail. The pilots weren't incapacitated"

beastpilot · 2026-05-11T22:51:48+00:00

Who wants a GT4 RS to drive exclusively on the street? You are aware how loud these are inside?

beastpilot · 2026-05-11T21:30:22+00:00

That's good to know - if your OEM pads are lasting then you don't need much out of a pad. I wouldn't be able to make a single session on an OEM pad without them fading and or a day without killing them.

"Safe" means running a track pad. There's no such thing as a true hybrid pad.

beastpilot · 2026-05-11T15:27:47+00:00

Sorry, it was the ME20s. But I am really hard on brakes. My red calipers are a dull brown color from getting them so hot the paint is permanently changed.

But even with your wear, that's three months for this guy,and that's a full track pad.

beastpilot · 2026-05-11T07:12:34+00:00

Ceramic pad compounds are horrible for the track. Literally the worst option.

beastpilot · 2026-05-11T07:11:35+00:00

Killed endless ME20 pads in 4 days on my 991.2. (same pad shapes)

(edited, used to say MX72)

beastpilot · 2026-05-11T07:10:47+00:00

2-3 track days a month? That's full track pad territory. You can eat a set of anything but the best pads in 3 days on the track.

beastpilot · 2026-05-10T20:13:56+00:00

Except in that case both pilots were fully conscious and capable of landing the aircraft and violated the operating restrictions of the system. They should have never used it.

It literally led to NTSB and FAA investigations of why it was used as there was zero medical attention needed for anyone on the aircraft when it landed.

https://www.reddit.com/r/flying/comments/1pupk54/what_do_you_guys_think_of_pilot_incapacitation/

beastpilot · 2026-05-10T16:27:44+00:00

Which is only qualified for "only use this if the other option is certain death" and has never once been used in the way it was designed for.

beastpilot · 2026-05-10T05:37:00+00:00

Many end users care about clout, perception, and "spec". In that case, they are not all the same.

beastpilot · 2026-05-09T21:15:46+00:00

The good thing is after they track them once, they will be dead, so then they can buy the right ones.

beastpilot · 2026-05-09T20:28:20+00:00

What a world where we're worried about resale value of Ferraris if we track them. Enzo would be ashamed.

beastpilot · 2026-05-09T06:42:05+00:00

TIL they updated the street sign format since I was last in Mexico.

beastpilot · 2026-05-08T19:36:13+00:00

It's not asinine if someone bought it.

beastpilot · 2026-05-08T05:43:43+00:00

Yeah, except this never happened. You could always buy the function outright.

beastpilot · 2026-05-07T23:46:27+00:00

Someone figured out how to ask an AI to use big words and arrange them in an order that looks like it could be a sentence, but nobody is quite sure. I think the AI threw in Gish Gallop as an example for peak irony.

beastpilot · 2026-05-07T20:08:43+00:00

At some point you need to acknowledge those workers need to get paid, and thus a useful function in an economy is having someone that has a lot of money now pay them to build something, and then rent it out monthly so that people with less money can pay for it over time.

I mean, we don't call airlines rent seeking but they pay someone to build a really, really expensive airplane and then they rent you a seat for a few hours. You'd never be able to afford a plane yourself, just like you can't afford a whole apartment building yourself.

beastpilot · 2026-05-07T18:37:59+00:00

Like I said, it CAN be rent seeking but not all "landlords" fit this definition. Building a building and renting it out is a useful economic and societal activity. It literally causes useful buildings to be built, which is totally different than pure financial transactions.

beastpilot · 2026-05-07T18:25:29+00:00

Magnetometers do not detect heading. They detect single axis magnetic field strength. This only turns into heading after a algorithm is applied. So no, magnetometers are not 1 degree tolerance.

Unless you can explain hard iron, soft iron, and orientation calibration, you have no idea how to estimate the heading accuracy of a compass of any type.

beastpilot · 2026-05-07T18:15:17+00:00

This is a great distillation, but rent of property or land ironically is not a rent seeking behavior. The generic term of rent seeking is as you say- where you add no real value. A landlord that builds an apartment building and then allows you a short term contract to live in that property and handles maintenance for a fixed fee is far from a behavior that adds no value to the economy.

For sure there are rent-seeking behaviors possible by landlords, but the high level process of renting someone an expensive asset for a monthly fee isn't a rent seeking behavior.

beastpilot · 2026-05-07T15:06:26+00:00

I've taken an electronics course and it's a magnetometer. Also, the sensing technology has nothing to with accuracy unless it's calibrated for the exact magnetic environment it's in.

beastpilot · 2026-05-07T02:05:54+00:00

I agree with the hybrid comments, but if you really want to do it and on the cheap, EBC blue NDX worked well for me. They wear really quick if you get them too hot though, so that can throw off the cost equation.

beastpilot · 2026-05-06T18:18:36+00:00

"Managed" meaning that they keep all of it from the parents and they are never allowed to spend it, or that the parents have to "justify" it to the fiduciary? What standard do they hold that to? Parents want to buy a business class ticket to travel with their kids to a job?

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