12-08-2012, 10:19 PM | #1 |
Drove a CTS V on the F1 track...
I was able to participate in a cadillac performance lab at the F1 track today (circuit of the americas near Austin for those of you living under a rock). It was pretty awesome...got to drive a CTS V around the track and also got to do some skid pad type stuff in the new ATS (didn't expect much from the ATS going in, but was very impressed after I drove it). So anyway, an engineer from Brembo was there giving a presentation and I asked why the roller skate pads were required on the SS but not the CTS. He sort of laughed and called them the 'Mickey mouse ears'.......and here is what i think i heard...apparently before the Camaro was released, GM was toying with the idea of making the Brembos an upgrade option, but at the last minute decided to make them standard...and that adequate noise testing was not performed before the release. When they realized that noise was a problem, they added the weights to the pads, because the caliper part couldn't be changed (I guess the weight/balance like this would normally be integrated into the caliper).
Another interesting tid bit of info is that it sounds like 'brake by wire' may become mainstream in the next 10 years...sounds like a better failsafe needs to be developed for that before it goes into production cars..... |
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12-08-2012, 10:31 PM | #2 |
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Good stuff. Sounds like an amazing experience.
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12-09-2012, 12:11 PM | #3 |
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I know throttle by wire is the norm now, but for some reason I'm still not likeing the idea of brake by wire either lol
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12-09-2012, 12:33 PM | #4 |
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I did the same with the V Coupe and V Sedan at Road Atlanta last fall. Awesome cars and drove them both as fast as I could within my ability but most of the ability was the CTS-V.
They told us before we drove that it wasn't our car or tires and there were no cops so drive em like you stole them. So I did. |
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12-09-2012, 01:10 PM | #7 |
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Wait until someone introduces 'steering-by-wire'.
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I'm assuming he meant that since the Camaro has been out for a few years now. How come they haven't gotten rid of the roller skates? And I assume the answer is that they didn't wanna do a bunch of R&D on new calipers when the roller skates seem to be working just fine.
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Brake by wire sounds scary.
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Cadillac sent a video from the event:
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