“stopping power” is tremendous?
Since the stock brakes have no problem getting wheels to lock up and engage ABS, (unless overheated after repeated braking beyond the brake warning light) and thus bring the car’s stopping power to the limit of the tires, I wonder how the carbon brakes can generate even MORE stopping power?
Perhaps those with the track tires can sense the tires are better, but you seem to be using the stock wheels and tires so if the stock brakes bring the car to the ABS limits, and the carbon brakes bring the car to the same ABS limit as well with the same tires, I wonder how you are sensing more “stopping power”.
The main effect of the track pack brakes should be:
1. during normal use the car brakes engage the ABS as it normally does: the ABS keeps the car at the limit of the tires/road
2. during repeated hard braking, past what would normally trigger the brake light, the brakes do NOT have brake fade like the stock brakes do.
3. Like all track brakes, they may be noisier, dustier, worse cold performance, and require more frequent fluid change.
But stopping power is just a function of the tires and the road carbon brakes aren’t going to generate more stopping power under regular driving conditions. But they should be more resistant to extreme brake heat.
The information here might help combat any epidemic of placebo effect
(the last one speculating that Tesla engineers, like C8 Corvette engineers, may have dialed in less rear braking force so as to avoid oversteer when braking hard).