Put the ST on a friend's lift today to rotate the tires and take a look at the brakes. I took a few pictures along the way.
View from, basically, the driver's side wheel well.
View from under the firewall. The charge pipe and turbo area.
View beneath the oil filter.
View from passenger front wheel well.
Center (strangely shaped) muffler/resonator.
Rear brakes
Rear diffuser
(I'm kidding. It's a bumper cover. Nothing is diffused here)
Nose at eye level on the lift.
That appears to be a sizable central bumper bar blocking quite a bit of airflow to the radiator.
Since I had the car at Summit Point several weeks ago, I've experienced some front brake squeal.
I saw that the rotors were a bit worse for wear from the view through the wheel spokes.
Pulling the wheel showed it to be a bit worse than I imagined.
The front rotors, particularly, the passenger side are grooved and heat checked.
The rubber dust boots appear to have also been partially burned away due to the heat.
The pads were roughly chunked, grooved and have axial cracks effectively separating the pad.
(cracks not immediately visible in the picture)
Grassroots Motorsports Magazine says this front caliper is from a Euro only Transit vehicle.
It's definitely a decent sized pad for the weight of the car, but with my very, very limited
time on track with this car, there was certainly a part of the equation not up to the task.
Without further analysis, it would be hard to know if it was a lack of cooling airflow, inferior
fluid temperature capability or the pads getting overwhelmed. Regardless, the car performed
well, but this shows it won't survive a full event on what came with the car.
4000 miles on the car. It's a bit distressing, but not unexpected with some, even light, track use.
2:55pm on a Saturday, and I'm moving to the hard stuff.
View from, basically, the driver's side wheel well.
View from under the firewall. The charge pipe and turbo area.
View beneath the oil filter.
View from passenger front wheel well.
Center (strangely shaped) muffler/resonator.
Rear brakes
Rear diffuser
(I'm kidding. It's a bumper cover. Nothing is diffused here)
Nose at eye level on the lift.
That appears to be a sizable central bumper bar blocking quite a bit of airflow to the radiator.
Since I had the car at Summit Point several weeks ago, I've experienced some front brake squeal.
I saw that the rotors were a bit worse for wear from the view through the wheel spokes.
Pulling the wheel showed it to be a bit worse than I imagined.
The front rotors, particularly, the passenger side are grooved and heat checked.
The rubber dust boots appear to have also been partially burned away due to the heat.
The pads were roughly chunked, grooved and have axial cracks effectively separating the pad.
(cracks not immediately visible in the picture)
Grassroots Motorsports Magazine says this front caliper is from a Euro only Transit vehicle.
It's definitely a decent sized pad for the weight of the car, but with my very, very limited
time on track with this car, there was certainly a part of the equation not up to the task.
Without further analysis, it would be hard to know if it was a lack of cooling airflow, inferior
fluid temperature capability or the pads getting overwhelmed. Regardless, the car performed
well, but this shows it won't survive a full event on what came with the car.
4000 miles on the car. It's a bit distressing, but not unexpected with some, even light, track use.
2:55pm on a Saturday, and I'm moving to the hard stuff.