The weekend warrior brake kits you pre-bed on the street for your track day driving. Once bedded, pads bite well from cold and are safe for street driving but withstand the harsh braking and heat in short-track use.

Continually monitor wear every 10 laps on track use; pads can wear faster in such applications, and check you have enough brakes to get you home.

EBC Bluestuff is heat scorched which helps bedding times, but you still need to take care, especially on the highway and when using on-part worn rotors. Use the brakes gently for 200 miles, gradually increasing demand on the brakes in a safe environment until you feel confident and can evaluate their stopping distances in all traffic conditions.

Remember, it’s down to you and your bedding-in process. If you do feel the brake fade a couple of times and even smell the brakes, this is normal, and once achieved and the brakes are allowed to cool, they will have improved a lot.

There are several ways of surface scorching pads, and EBC has chosen an infra-red lamp tunnel for surface preparation of its pad ranges.  The furnace is now scorching all pads for resale, including the Bluestuff NDX range.

Bedding Performance

The curve shows that friction builds quickly during bedding even after 2-3 stops, but in a real-world TRACK USE where rotors may not be perfect, and calipers not serviced weekly (like our lab dyno ones) the bedding in process with Blue may exhibit 20-25mm contact bands in the center of the discs after 4-5 laps and on some standard street calipers some vibration.

This is simply the pad telling you, “ I cannot hold onto the disc at these torques until I am fully bedded in”. If vibration happens, you should continue driving whilst BRAKING EARLIER TO BE SAFE until the contact band widens to almost the entire disc/rotor sweep, at which point the vibration will stop. In street use, the torques will not usually be enough to generate vibration during bed in but drive safely for 200 miles with gentle brake use to bed in your new brakes and test them to performance in a safe and quiet road environment until you have total confidence that they are bedded. Hitting the brakes too hard too soon can shorten pad life and cause loss of brakes and an accident—bed brakes in progressively.

Kit Includes:

• EBC Bluestuff Front Brake Pads
• EBC 340x30mm Slotted and Drilled Front Sport Rotors
• Caliper Lube