Bishop and I (and friends) were heading down a highway after dinner and we did a 2nd gear pull through fourth... as soon as I hit 90 or so, I hit my brakes lightly at first, and then really layed into them hard to get slowed down to about 30. He flies by, and then a couple seconds later they're shouting at us from the other car that they saw sparks, shooting out from my front brakes, when I was under very heavy braking. It stopped as soon as I let off, and it didn't do it again under light braking - I was afraid to brake heavily again until I found out what the deal was.

I have Hawk HP Plus brake pads at all four corners.

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[Modified by uncleben, 10:51 PM 7/10/2002]

 

Sparks and Fire

 

Normal. I've heard a few tales of sparking performance pads. No biggie from what I understand

 

Those Hawks you're running have a high "metallic" content... You get sparks when metal contacts metal...

 

sweet. good news

now to get that on video... heh

 

yaya, sounds about right... If you have the confidence to go recreate the heavy braking you'll probably get the same result. You haven't gotten any sounds or warning lights so that pretty much rules out pad wear and i tihnk you'd know if a linkage was bad.

 

I'm not sure how many of you have seen the home made video Getaway in Stockholm, but there is a shot of the front wheels of a 911 throwing off a couple sparks. Kinda cool.

 

is that the new APC product??
hahahha...

 

yeah I was just going to mention the Getaway in Stockholm film

FIRE FIRE COOL!!!! haha

time for the liquid cooled rotors

 

I thought of that too....

 

Normal. If you see flames, then you may have a little problem...

 

If you see flames, call sackdz.



[Modified by nsxtcjr, 10:10 AM 7/11/2002]

 

Carbotech P+'s do it also. Ask Willard and Pat how they looked on the way to expo when we were running down SR50 (or what every back woods country road we were on).

 

I enjoyed the show... thanks butt knickle.

Will

 

No problem
I´ve got Ferodo DS3000, does the same thing and at night it really grabs attention when you stand heavy on the brakes.