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We ran our Supercar Shootout Camaro vs. Mustang Wednesday August 111, 2010. The CTS-V pads had some fade and were being stressed in our last testing session. We have used Cobalt Friction XR1 and XR3 pads on the Camaro with the SS calipers and rotors with great success. We thought we knew enough about the car and setup and went straight to the track with Cobalt Friction XR1 front and XR3 rear. That was a mistake. The 6 6 pot front CTS-V calipers are more efficient than the SS front 4 pot. With the XR1 in front and the XR3 in the rear we created a brake bias issue. It is always the things you are sure will work that come back and bite you. We went from perfect brake bias to heavy front bias and hurt the braking. The solution is simple. We'll move to the more aggressive XR2 rear pads.
Talk is cheap and track time finds every flaw in the car. It wasn't all that bad, it just bothers me to not have it perfect. The XR2 pads are already on order.
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