Our 2022 Honda Civic Si prepares for track days:
Since 1996, Carbotech has helped race cars brake later with its high-temp ceramic Kevlar friction material. Most pads sold today are either semi-metallic or ceramic compounds, and they aren't built for track use. Carbotech's pads range in capability from 800 degrees Fahrenheit in the everyday street compound all the way to race pads good for up to 2000 degrees. Each pad is hand-built by one of Carbotech's seasoned brake-ologists.
Pads weren't yet available for our Civic Si, but Carbotech said it could create them, using the OE hardware to craft the backplate templates. I holstered the keyboard for a day to build our set of Carbotech pads with an air chisel. The first step of the brake pad process is removing the original pad material from the backplate. It blasts away easily, even if you're holding the air chisel wrong. Once most of the material is off, a belt sander clears the remaining debris from the plate.
The raw chunks of pad material are called pucks, and they're shaped to match the backplate using an enormous carbide drum. Once the puck is ready, two holes are drilled into the backplate and then used as a pilot to guide the drill into the brake-pad material. While a single drill bit can cut through the street-compound material numerous times, the stronger pads' higher levels of heat resistance diminish the lifecycle of the tools.
After hours of oven-curing, the pads are cooled and then painted in different colors that correlate with their level of seriousness. While Carbotech maintains an inventory of more than 40,000 brake pads, the process from which each is built is spectacularly bespoke. We'll be putting our handmade Carbotech XP12s to good use at various track days later this summer and fall. Expect a full report on that at the 20,000-mile update.
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