Vette_17

As title suggests? Any down side to the ceramic brakes or are the standard cast iron better option. Will be a weekend car for nice scenic drives and the occasional track event.

c7gsmike

I have put 1350 miles on my '24 Z thus far. The CCBs took a while to really start biting when applying the pedal. It took multiple burnish sessions and just putting miles on the car with aggressive driving. No issues at all. I plan to track the car later this year.

AzDave47

^^^ same of me, @5K miles now.

Tally Ho

3600 miles, no issues.

burtonbl103

no issues love them and break them in right

MitchAlsup

CCBs will generally last the life of the car on the street--unless you track the car--at which time iron rotors and upgraded pads have significantly lower cost to track.

Whataguy

I agree, now have 1200 miles and have had several burnishing sessions, they are fine. I pretty much use sport or track mode and all works well. It's a fun car.

BearZ06

I had them on a C6 ZR1 and now C7 ZR1 and they are great and practically zero dust. I don't track and so have never "burnished" the brakes on either car and they stop great.

Aku700

Unless you doing serious tracking, the CCB will be 100% great.

VETTED53

5500 mi and no issues. Love them.

Vette_17

Thanks for all the replies. I am 778 on macmulkin list but found a car very similar to my build, only difference is the CCB. You guys sold me on it. Now does anyone know a good transporter from Cali to the east coast??

Aku700

yes, I have amazing carrier here in CA, enclosed carriers! Pm me your name and number for connection. They are actually taking my Z06 out of state this week.

1Sikstik

both my zr1's have them. my c6 is a '13 and the brakes are still like new. I dont track my cars though. Never had an issue with ceramics and the zero brake dust while street driving is a huge plus.

JABCAT

https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...-vs-steel.html

cars

perfect for street use and mild track use. we experienced fade in ccb and swap out to full ap competition brakes and ran it much longer and harder with 0 fade.
ccb is better for 99% of the people it is not for 1% that track their car hard and burn thru a tank of gas in 1 session

z28lt1

I'm trying to reconcile this post with this from yesterday from you:

I mention this because you have posted several times that you have faded your CCBs and no one else has reported doing the same. I know you were pushing the car pretty hard so I figured maybe that is why, but others have not had the same thing including Poor-sha in his heavy Caddy. Now, yesterday you say you experienced a fade-like feeling with your full AP setup. I'm wondering if there is something else going on with your car or something and you have a separate issue causing pre-mature brake fade or a feeling of fade.

Mad Dog 24

I have 10k hard track miles on my C7Z with CCB's and a total of 45k on the car. Just had to replace the front rotors simply because they were eating front pads over just 2 - 4 tracks days. The street none of this matters. I cannot believe anyone would remove them to install heavy steelies for heavy DE track use or racing. My C6Z GT-2 race car has to run steel for class requirements if I could sneak on CCB's I would in a heartbeat! With that said CCB's are so overkill if your 90% street driving for the initial cost. My new C8Z on order is with steel and it's going to be a streetcar with occasional student rides at the track. I posted this because of my background and use of CCB's that I think few have and BTW, brake fade- absolutely not with CCB's. If there was then I would suggest poor brake fluid changes, poor pad choice or something else.

There's a company in the UK that restores old CCB rotors and a salesperson here in the states. Not cheap but in most cases less than new, call Rami Hyary 518-496-4429.

Semifighter18

I've owned 3 cars with Ceramic Brakes, 2 Chevys and a Porsche. They are awesome!

fjaphd

Nope. Love them. No brake dust!

Racingswh

I learned something new today. I thought if they came on a version of the car, they were legal. I didn't know that. What kind of lap times at WG in the GT2 car and do you have any video? Those GT2 racing cars are incredible.

Best of luck with your C8Z when you get it!!