Today I did something I swore I’d never do. I actually spent money on a performance part for my Saturn, a set of Carbotech AX6 pads for the front of my car. My Miata is getting a full exhaust put in, and while I’m pretty sure it will be ready in time for my track days next weekend, I want the Saturn up to par in case it needs to do some emergency fill-in duty.
The AX6 is the bottom rung track pad in the Carbotech line for regular cars, which means they are super-performance pads on my car. If I overheat them, I’m probably about to crash. I have drum brakes in the rear, which means that I won’t do anything for them because they wouldn’t do anything for me even if I did.
Hopefully my Saturn won’t be quite as terrible as it has been, but I won’t hold my breath…
on April 2, 2008 at 1:19 am Sam wrote:
From the title, thought it was going to be an April Fool’s article about turboing the Saturn. Nice combo of track pads and rear drums hah!
on April 2, 2008 at 10:43 am Noah wrote:
Funny you should mention that. In a way, the Saturn will be one big April Fool’s joke with those pads.
on April 2, 2008 at 5:37 pm Sam wrote:
Be nice to bias the fronts and make it do a stoppie.
on April 3, 2008 at 4:02 pm Noah wrote:
I think my tires have a loooooong way to go before I can think about stoppies…