Awesome in-car video: Dino's Porsche Takes Vette on Hard Turn

Check out this clip of StopTech CEO Dino Crescentinti in the No. 4 GMG / Stoptech Porsche 911 GT3-Cup car, making a great start in the 2nd SCCA World Challenge race at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Park in 2010.

He hauls the Stoptech Porsche down from 156 MPH to 60 in turn 3 Mid Ohio motorsports park, Dino eats up the pavement and makes short work of passing the yellow Corvette driven by Skeen in just 4 seconds and pulling - 1.5G's on his Toyo 888 racing tires....Impressive

StopTech brakes around the Web

StopTech gets a fair amount of chatter on car forums around the web. Here's some threads on our radar this month...

You can keep track of a custom job StopTech did for a screaming 1999 Chevy Camaro SS over on the LS1 Tech Forum for Firebird and Camaro lovers.

There is a surprisingly eye-catching Honda Accord with blue calipers piling up the positive comments on V6Performance.net.

StopTech's Facebook friends may already be familiar with the snazzy Honda S2000 project car over at MotoIQ.

Do you have a thread going about your StopTech equipped car?  Send us a link at forums@stoptechblog.com and we may feature it here.

Compass360 Racing Grand-Am Season is a Hot One for Honda Civic Si

Compass360 Racing continues to belt out podium visits for Team StopTech . With two drivers tied for first in the ST class of the Grand-Am Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge Standings, Compass360 Racing is making it an even more interesting season with two of their drivers (David Thilenius and Lawson Aschenbach) tied for second and another one, Zach Lutz, running in third all alone. Two of their cars hold second and third in the overall team standings.

The Compass360 Racing competition Honda Civic Si racecars made a switch over to rear StopTech Street Performance Brake Pads at the top of this stellar season. You can also find PowerSlot Power Alloy brake rotors on Compass360's Honda Civic Si lineup, which helped fuel an amazing opening weekend for the team. (Check out these shots of Lawson Aschenbach's #74 at the Canadian Car Show).

Don't let the "street" in StopTech Street Performance Brake Pads fool you. Compass360 Racing has been proving these brake pads track worthy all season long. Feedback from the team indicates they are "getting 5 races out of them and are the right amount of friction in the rear for the stock ABS system...they hold up much better than the previous pads we used in rear. (Those pads) tend to crumble after multiple heat cycles which caused the pad to chew up the disk finish."

Hyundai Tiburons Need Killer Brakes Too

When everyone else on the track has a bigger engine, the brakes can make the difference.  That's why Fastco Motorsports is running with StopTech in the Castrol Canadian Touring Car Championship.  The series has a pair of classes, and the Super Touring class allows for brake upgrades. 

Fastco Motorsports has fielded a trio of 2008 Hyundai Tiburon V6 racers for two drivers in the 2010 season.  That would be father and son racers Glenn and Lee Chaplin. They go toe to toe with a field chock full of BMWs.  The brakes of choice this season for Fastco are StopTech Big Brake Kits featuring 328x28 patented AeroRotors with Aerohats and clamped by patented ST-40 for piston calipers.

The season has made it through Round Five already with the next round later this month.  The feedback from Lee in the drivers seat is that they could pretty much outbrake everybody at 125mph down to 40 mph.

You catch a taste of the series with this snazzy video recap of Round Three featuring Glenn and Lee Chaplin...

StopTech hits the Green with Lexus at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance

Once each year, on the third Sunday in August, 175 of the most prized collector cars and motorcycles in the world roll onto what is often called the best finishing hole in golf — the famed eighteenth fairway at Pebble Beach. Tire meets turf and transformation occurs: the stage is set for one of the most competitive events in the automotive world. The occasion is the prestigious Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance.

The Concours is not a contest of speed, but of excellence. Automobiles and motorcycles are judged for their historical accuracy, their technical merit and their style. And the best garner reward and recognition.

Thousands of enthusiasts are on hand to celebrate these vehicles and enjoy the company of others who share their passion. The 2010 event marked the 60th anniversary of the first Concours, which was held in 1950.. From less than 30 cars on display in 1950, the event's grown to an estimated 255 cars and motorcycles this year.

One such car at the Lexus pavilion was this beauty sporting F Sport brakes engineered and manufactured for Lexus by StopTech.

New Free Video Series from StopTech Answers Common Brake Upgrade Questions

A new free video series from StopTech answers common brake upgrade questions.  You can read about them here, jump on over to the YouTube Channel where they live, or catch the first three right here...

Rare 1959 Porsche 718/2 RSK Spyder gets hosed by StopTech

A super rare 1959 Porsche 718/2 RSK Spyder, one of only four built with center steering, is now graced with a set of custom-made stainless steel brake hoses from StopTech, the ultra-performance division of Centric Parts.

Ansite Inc, a well known Southern California service and restoration facility specializing in Porsche 356 models, turned to Centric Parts on behalf of the vehicle's owner upon discovering no replacement hoses were available for this vintage ride.

Graem Elliot and Robbie Pyle at Centric Parts, part of the company's unofficial in-house Porsche fanatics group, jumped into action and found all the component parts required to produce a stainless braided hose set for the RSK. Production drawings were made and 3 days after the original quote was received, the custom RSK stainless braided lines were completed.

The 1959 Porsche 718/2 RSK Spyder was designed with centre steering so it could be used as a sportscar and a single seater. Based on the 550 series, Porsche's first purpose built racing car, the 718 was initially developed for the 1957 race season with a new body design that was both lower and smoother than that of its predecessors.

After a lackluster debut season, much time was spent improving the RSK. Front suspension was reworked and dramatic changes were made at the rear, where for the first time in Porsche history, the traditional swing-axle design was discarded. The modifications proved to be highly successful as the new Porsches were the fastest cars in their class. By 1959, the further refined RSK was even more successful with an overall win at the Targa Florio and a podium finish at the Sebring 12 Hours.

Thanks to the central location of the steering box needed to accommodate these design revisions, the RSK could easily be converted to single seater specifications. In 1959 Porsche built four special RSKs for customers, plus one for the racing team, that could be easily converted to single seater specification. Mounting points were designed to simplify moving the steering wheel, seat and pedals from the left side of the car to the center.

Now, over fifty years later, one of them comes to a stop with the help of some 21st century technology and know-how from Centric Parts.

Here is a link to a story about these cars in Autoweek.