Tested & Proven Brake Bias

Proper brake bias is often over looked by most track-day participants. The truth is, professional race teams spend massive amounts of time and money dialling in the perfect brake balance. Whether you prefer braking hard in a straight line before the turn or trail braking (braking as you're entering the turn), keeping the car balanced under braking is absolutely essential for good lap times.

You don't need a million dollar race car with brake bias controls or a team of chassis engineers to get the perfect brake bias either. Properly selected brake pad compounds are just as effective at giving you proper brake bias and performance. Pontiac Solstice driver Don Knowles' SCCA Championship winning team and Hawk Performance have already done all the hard work - with some special assistance from GM. The two Hawk brake pad compounds they selected gave Don Knowles' Solstice perfect brake balance. The DTC70 front brake pads & DTC60 rear brake pads were the compounds that helped Don Knowles' team win the SCCA Stock Runoffs B Championship.

These race-compound pads are THE track-day pads of choice for the Solstice and Sky. If you track your Kappa roadster, we highly recommend this setup. You can't go wrong with a championship winning combination!

We are good friends with the former GM Ride & Handling Engineer who helped dial these brakes in. Dave will be our special guest at an upcoming Technical Seminar at our Shop this Fall. He will describe the work he conducted on the Solstice to help get it set up on the Nurburgring as well as for the SCCA run offs. We will be announcing the date shortly.

reBAR fitted with SOLO GXP Street Race exhaust

Yesterday, a local customer, Al, stopped by our shop to have our reBAR installed on his GXP. We wanted to see if the reBAR would fit with his current exhaust set up.

We dry fitted the reBAR initially and discovered the SOLO exhaust sat too low and didn't allow the reBAR to be bolted in. It took some adjustments, but, we were able to install our reBAR on a Al's GXP Solstice with his SOLO GXP Street Race exhaust.

Here are the steps we took to make this set up work:

• We loosened the three clamps attaching the Solo exhaust.
  
• After loosing up the clamps we pushed the reBAR up against the exhaust and hand tighten it in place.
  
• Now that the reBAR was in place, we lined the exhaust up and re-tightened the clamps so the exhaust was secured at its highest position.
  

NOTE: There was minimal clearance between the exhaust and reBAR. The customer was aware of the potential rattle but really wanted this solution and decided to go ahead with it. Its also a good idea to recheck all the bolts and clamps after the test drive to make sure they remained secured.

When the install was completed, I took it out for a test drive to make sure there were no issues and that everything remained in place. There was no rattle detectable and everything felt extremely solid.

For you GXP owners with the SOLO exhaust system, our reBAR has been confirmed to fit on your car! Feel free to give us a call with any questions or concerns. We'd be happy to help you with this process.

BTW: Al has a very fast car! Thanks for letting us work on it.