It's so long since I used them that I cannot be sure, but I would suspect they will be perfectly good for road use.
For track use I suspect you'll get away with them if you stick to road tyres, though they're bound to fade sooner than the RS42 or RS14 compounds.
Cheers,
Robin
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I've come to the conclusion that you need to run the right pads for the main use of the car and the tyres you have fitted. The std pads are a perfectly fine road pad and okish on track on normal road tyres. If I was doing the miles on road and the odd trackday I'd stick to std pads. Running race spec pads compromises the brakes for the road too much. I've also have a set of these:
http://www.eliseparts.com/products/show ... rake-pads/
Direct replacement for the OEM pad. Very good on road. None of that rattly annoyance you get with just about every other non-oem pad. No screeching either. Again ok on track but like the OEM pad tends to suffer from pad fade a bit although it depends on the track and the tyres. They would have struggled at Zolder I reckon but would have been fine at Spa.
I fitted the CL RC5+ for SPAZZ (and specifically for Zolder as I figured it would be tough on the brakes) and while they offer great stopping power and don't suffer from fade they are pretty dead from a feel point of view as Robin noticed too when he drove my car. That said, they are a good match for the AD08r tyres as I could pretty much stand the car on its nose without the ABS coming in even if I couldn't quite feel what was going on so easy enough in the dry but I suspect I might have struggled a bit to judge the braking effort in the wet. I also think RS42s are a bit dead in the feel dept as a road pad and to a lesser extent as a track pad. Performance Friction next for me I think.
I reckon you adjust quite quickly to whatever you have on your car and only really notice a difference when you have access to a few cars that use different pads and can do back to back comparisons.
http://www.eliseparts.com/products/show ... rake-pads/
Direct replacement for the OEM pad. Very good on road. None of that rattly annoyance you get with just about every other non-oem pad. No screeching either. Again ok on track but like the OEM pad tends to suffer from pad fade a bit although it depends on the track and the tyres. They would have struggled at Zolder I reckon but would have been fine at Spa.
I fitted the CL RC5+ for SPAZZ (and specifically for Zolder as I figured it would be tough on the brakes) and while they offer great stopping power and don't suffer from fade they are pretty dead from a feel point of view as Robin noticed too when he drove my car. That said, they are a good match for the AD08r tyres as I could pretty much stand the car on its nose without the ABS coming in even if I couldn't quite feel what was going on so easy enough in the dry but I suspect I might have struggled a bit to judge the braking effort in the wet. I also think RS42s are a bit dead in the feel dept as a road pad and to a lesser extent as a track pad. Performance Friction next for me I think.
I reckon you adjust quite quickly to whatever you have on your car and only really notice a difference when you have access to a few cars that use different pads and can do back to back comparisons.