Over a 20 minute session you may take an early lead (driver confidence is going to matter), but if you're running the base brakes and not yet taken effective measures against differential fluid overheating I'm pretty sure he'll pass you before the session ends.
I'm not sure what you mean by base brakes, I have 6 piston Brembo calipers that are larger than his boss. I think my rotors are larger also.
What wasn't immediately apparent to me was whether your front rotors draw air from the back side (the conventional arrangement) or from the wheel side (the 'backwards' base S550 way, either EB or GT). You should have the good kind.
The independent 8.8 does, at least partly because the fluid cannot travel down any axle tubes and use their surface area for heat rejection. I also doubt that airflow around the diff housing in its IRS cradle is as good as it is around a stick-axle pumpkin. There's also the matter of exhaust routing, which gets really tight in the S550.I've been curious about differential overheating since reading about it on this forum. I don't think he has a rear cooler but he may have. Does the independent 8.8 heat up more than the standard axle? We both have the Torsen differentials. In the old days you never heard about this overheating unless it was pro racing. What am I missing? Just curious and want to learn, not trying to be a smart ass.
I thought the red key would have more lope. You can hear it but nothing like a large cam, but I'm old school, it definitely sounds good, he has Borla mufflers, but I expected more. Cool car no matter how you look at it.
