MAndres

If you use different front pads/rotors at the track, you will have much more confidence in the brakes, so you will have a much better day. You will always have pads & rotors to drive home. You still have to put cooling ducting in even if only for the CV joints & wheel bearings.

You can't judge the brake system, including the calipers, until you have tried at least two good (expensive) sets of pads. I have tried & like Hawk, Carbotech, Porterfield & Ferodo pads. 'Hawk Blues' are very hard and have amazing bite but 'Hawk Blacks' are easier to modulate. You also have to bleed the brakes very carefully (tighten the bleed screw before the pedal hits the floor / after you think you're done, do each wheel again). If you aren't doing it yourself you have to go to a 'race type shop' & pay more than normal. If you change the pads (& rotors because they are bedded in) at the track you will have way more confidence & way more fun, but you (or the person teaching you) have to know what you're doing if you're working on brakes! I want a BBK but more tires, more entry fees & more gas has always won out.

This is great, to have access to info from people who have tried stuff. I am much more thrifty than this. After many years of taking our street cars to the track we bought a used race car cheap. I found on our car that small brakes with 'Hawk Blues' work at Shannonville/Mosport DDT, and 'Hawk Blacks' work at Mosport Big Track. There is no substitute for a 4" dryer hose dumping cold air close to the center of the rotor. Do not try blocking the cooling so that you can use high temp pads at a big fast track like Mosport or The Glen. I tried that & we had to replace both driveshafts in one weekend. Please learn from my mistake. It makes me think that any cooling hose, even a 2" one, will probably increase the life of bearings & driveshafts. A motorcycle racer told me, many years ago, "when the back wheel isn't touching the ground it's really easy to lock up". Do NOT use high temp pads that require "warm up" on the street. I did it when I was young & stupider. I didn't hit anything but I was lucky! Of course cars like the Fox body Mustang need the equivalent of Hawk Blues everywhere. M