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Originally posted by Knestis:
If the pad material is STILL SOUND and the backing plate has gotten hot enough to distort (I've seen this), then there are two choices, given no change in ambient temperature - (a) brake earlier to put the time quotient more in your favor in the heat-shedding rate, or (B) get more air to the brakes. Boiled fluid and failed seals? Even more so. I completely fail to understand how different compounds will fix those problems.
K
I think different compounds address these problems by their CF. If a pad bites like your 2 year old niece then you know you don't have get on the brakes till very late, however if they have bite more like a suckling babe then even though you know they are never going to give up you might have to get on them a bit sooner thus increasing the braking time.