Most road race and other GT cars have heat-reflective tape covering the strip(s) of wheel weights for this exact reason. The heat from the brake softens the adhesive and away they go!Edit - forgot to mention I melted my weights and center caps off.... no brake fade though.
oh damn. that's probably it.Found this, I’m hoping it’s responsible because if not, I’m out of ideas. I didn’t even tighten the clamp *that* hard, but it definitely deformed the charge pipe. I have a P2uned replacement on the way from Jesse at 1FS, he said he’s seen this before with the FTP and the P2uned should be stronger.
I will have to give those a try!
Wouldnt be a bad idea to use with what Bryan mentioned too.
Holy crapFound this, I’m hoping it’s responsible because if not, I’m out of ideas. I didn’t even tighten the clamp *that* hard, but it definitely deformed the charge pipe. I have a P2uned replacement on the way from Jesse at 1FS, he said he’s seen this before with the FTP and the P2uned should be stronger.
If you were easily going 100% through that section, then aero definitely helped. I do wish I had gotten that section right just once LOL. Man.. I coulda dropped at least half a second there LOL. Next year, though..... I'll be going for PBs and not needing to conform to class rules. Jackie and I will be talking coilovers and aero.
... I'll post a couple of my faves:
This is what can happen when you use t-bolts and torque them down, they don't torque evenly. If you use high quality worm clamps you won't have this issue. I highly recommend ABA clamps. I've used them on 40+ psi cars with zero issues.Found this, I’m hoping it’s responsible because if not, I’m out of ideas. I didn’t even tighten the clamp *that* hard, but it definitely deformed the charge pipe. I have a P2uned replacement on the way from Jesse at 1FS, he said he’s seen this before with the FTP and the P2uned should be stronger.
Agreed. I used T bolts on my last several builds, but going forward I am sure I would be using constant tension worm gear clamps. Just cant be the ones with those slots that kill couplers.
Definitely seen this happen before. Just gotta drive it after a wash and let the pads scrape the rotors clean, as whatever is in the wash solution tends to rust-film the rotors 10x faster than plain water alone. Same reason the first stop after leaving an automatic wash is all grabby and weird on most vehicles.So I washed my car saturday before last as I was planning to drive to an event but the event got canceled so I parked the car in the garage shortly after drying it. The car sat for exactly seven days in my garage and during those seven days I didn't drive it, it's not a daily. Anyways, I went to get into my car the next saturday and the car literally wouldn't budge forward. I made sure the parking brake was off and that the car was in drive, it was and it was. I eventually realized my front brakes were seized up due to rust having formed from washing the car and having not driven it for a full week, odd that it was this severe, but ok. I had to give the car so much gas that the car was actually doing a small burnout in my garage and ended up pushing the front wheels across the garage floor for several feet before the brakes finally broke free.
I've had the brakes on the Supra get slight stuck before after a wash and being parked for a few days but never to this degree. Has anyone else experienced anything close to what I'm describing? You can see the markings on the garage floor in the picture I posted.
I was about to ask what in gods name happened to these tires, but then saw your youtube link lol.
First tire set gone for the season
+1. I use constant-torque worm drive clamps on all my turbo cars, despite being told I need t-bolt clamps everywhere. I haven't had a problem since making the switch.
Such a coincidence. I just had this conversation with my friend yesterday after cleaning my wheels. I had her drive around the block a few times to use the brakes. She asked why. I'll show her your post haha.
I WOULD!I wouldn’t drive these for a million bucks!
I've never had this happen like this is the thing though. Like I said originally, usually when I take the parking brake off I give the car just a smidge of gas and you hear the brakes loosen and away she goes. This time I almost thought someone had trolled me by putting my wheel blocks under the tires or something. Lesson learned. I will drive the car afterwards from now on lol because I'm not dealing with that again. The entire ass end of the car was going sideways in my garage and I was having to counter steer to correct it back straight in the case that the brakes did break free. Scary moments.
