[Hal Copple]

My SPF has over 600 race track laps on it. About half with the Ford brakes, and the rest with a front Wilwood upgrade from the Olthoff's, not the full race "hatted" version. My son Chris and I have found for track days, with the Goodyear GTII's, the Fords are acceptable, as long as you back off a tiny bit on the long straights once you get into fifth.

We have found with the Wilwoods, that we drop in a Performance Friction 80 series pad for the track, it is a bit more heat resistant, and we had no fade even at VIR.

When we went to the race Hoosier radial Slicks, we could over heat the master cylinder. Of course, we would brake really really hard for each corner, no gentle decleration for us. Phenomenal deceleration with hot race slicks.

So, i am going to add some ducting to the master cylinder, you can just take out the small "door" in front of the master cylinder, but i want some ducting to the cylinder. I don't think brake pad fade was a problem, even with our very hard braking. I am moving also to Castrol SRF next fill.

So what we have found is:

Street tires, "track days" the stock Fords are adequate.

Street tires, the Wilwoods are fine, with stock "tan" or upgraded pads.

If you go to race tires, you need cooling to the master cylinder and top rated fresh fluid, and front Wilwoods.

If you race for a duration, like NASA, then the $3K setup would be very helpful.

By the way, race pads for the Dynalites are very inexpensive, i am still on the first race pad set for $40 a set, and the rotors are wearing well, even at 50K miles, not a hint of shudder or shake, just fine braking, and they are the original rotors.

If you get a full race "hatted" set, i am not sure you can get a street pad set for those sorts of race brakes, and then you will wonder where your brakes went on a cool day. Race pads, like race tires need heat to work.

One advantage of the Wilwoods is that they are much much lighter than the Ford calipers. I put them on in several hours, the kit from Dennis Olthoff even has DOD braided SS lines, which by themselves would cost a hundred bucks or so. They are sized for the SPF rotors, and ready to mount with custom hardened steel brackets that just bolt right up. A very worthy brake upgrade from Dennis O. Plus, you can swap out pads in about 30 seconds!!

My experience.