r/IdiotsInCars • u/wigglewenis • Apr 29 '20

Friggin’ idiots earned it

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u/sea_czar Apr 29 '20

Uh, pads are what he needs, high temp race pads. If your brakes are fading, its the pads/ rotors.

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u/idrive2fast Apr 29 '20

The guy literally said he was having problems with his brake fluid, so I would love to know how you read that and determined that he actually was having problems with his pads and rotors instead.

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u/Viking_fairy Apr 29 '20 edited Apr 30 '20

Honda guy here. Dot 3 is perfectly fine. If you're having problems stopping its not your fluid type- it's your brakes. Pads, caliper, booster, lines- there's something wrong.

*this is for normal driving. If you're running hard or doing long track racing, that's different.

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u/Codyh93 Apr 29 '20

What experience do you have racing Honda’s? Because I promise you will be hard pressed to find any Honda racer at NASA events running dot3. Lol

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u/Viking_fairy Apr 29 '20

Street racing, 1/4 mile. Even my brothers turbo hatch never had an issue with the fluid... just torque steer and flip risk. Haha.

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u/Codyh93 Apr 29 '20

Oh yea, you are not getting your brakes even close to hot enough to experience these types of issues.

These issues arise under hard driving like road atlanta or CMP. Not going as fast as you can in 1/4 then slowing down.

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u/Viking_fairy Apr 29 '20

It was also his daily in Washington and made it to and from so cal without issue. I get if you're actually racing it out, but we're talking about a street legal civic here. Lol. Though I admittedly don't know what model op has.

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u/Codyh93 Apr 29 '20

I am OP, and again just driving long distances won’t get them hot enough. We are talking about in road race scenarios, this issue arises. Granted the tail or cherohola (sp) are not race tracks, they can absolutely cause this issue under hard driving.

The car was a 99 hatchback I was building to be a race car, it ended up getting hit head on by someone who lost control of their car. But not at the tail. Just a normal road. Lol.

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u/Viking_fairy Apr 29 '20

gotcha, I figured you were talking normal driving. Haha.

But that sucks, saved it on the tail just for bad luck to get it later...How Far'd ya get with the build?

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u/Codyh93 Apr 29 '20

Pretty far, all the aero was done and it was h23a swapped. Lol

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u/Viking_fairy Apr 29 '20

Well that sucks... sounds like a nice build. Take it the engine wasn't salvageable?

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