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Brake fade



Well, I was feeling quite good after my date tonight, so I did some hard
driving.  They are calling for a ice storm in the morning so all the
roads were empty.  On the last stretch of road, I was doing about 120,
braked really hard to 60 (I thought I saw a police car), back up to 120
and braked hard for my exit.  I could only get my car down to about 45
mph (not slow enough for the exit so I went down to the next one).
I'm never used my brakes that hard repeatedly.  I've got 9.4 vented
rotors, Ferodo pads and stock everything else.  I don't drive like this
all the time, but I would like to do a track day in the spring (VIR) and
I'm sure less fade would be better.  Would just changing the brake fluid
to Super Blue cut back on the fade?  How about SS brake lines?  Is my
only hope going to bigger rotors?  
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Kervin
86 Scirocco 2.0 8v 4K+80% and lots of other numbers and letters
88 Gti 1.8 16v Not done and now it's winter :(
00 tt600