For the first 9 laps, brakes felt totally fine, no signs of fade whatsoever, then, on the straight headed into this hairpin:



The brakes go right to the floor, I was able to downshift and ebrake (mad drift y0) enough to prevent me from going off the cliff, but it was pretty...interesting.

I let the brakes cool down and then did a bleed at the track, check out the old stuff:

Black with a hint of green...that probably isn't good....


After doing the bleed/flush it was fine, but it was the first time I have ever experienced brake boil and saw green brake fluid, so I thought I would document it.

random track pic:


you can see the rest here (username and password = A1210 )
http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=4286184527


Dumb move on my part for not doing the preventive maintaince before the track...

 

Awesome pics. Sucks about the brakes. Talk about massive sphincter tightening!!!

 

Yay JDM tech inspection (if any).

 

What track is this? Man, two rows of tires (and they look lower than the track level) is probably not enough to keep a fast car from going down the cliff! I mean, you could probably go all the way to the village at the bottom if you were going fast enough!

 

how old was the fluid and what type were you using? Have brake ducts?

That's one wide track, it looks like you could have 4 cars wide in that turn.

 

green brake fluid = bad lol

 

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That's one wide track, it looks like you could have 4 cars wide in that turn. </TD></TR></TABLE>

Almost a year old on the fluid..brake ducts apparently don't work....heh

 

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Yah....when I visited Philippines and Hong kong their "motorsports parks" have very little safety requirements compared to the US (well at least the tracks i went to) Inspections werent all that strict and spectator safety was really lax. Im pretty glad US has the rules they do...safety is pretty important when stuff like that happens..

 

very appropriate thread title glad you're ok!

 

You'll find him right down there in those trees.