[Vic Eacott]

[quote quote=17371]Hi Mat I’m sorry you had such a terrible experience with our product. I’m glad you weren’t hurt!!!! I wish you would have contacted me directly so we could have worked together to solve the problem. I think the mostly likely cause of the problem was improper installation and run in. I’ll gladly send you a replacement set at no charge but this time I’ll ask you to precisely follow the installation and run in instructions supplied with the pads. I think you’ll find our pads to be superior to OEM and as you mentioned you’ll save a little money also. Sincerely The way it should have been handled. [/quote]

 

Don’t agree with your ‘pussy footing’ ……… It was handled the best way as it was said by Matt.

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[quote quote=7169]Keep us posted man !! [/quote]

 

Matt – Don’t you run with Buddy Rice………..or used to ???

I’m getting a lot of feedback about you and Buddy Rice karting, just wondering if I have the right information??

[Vic Eacott]

Dear Patrick – PLEASE HOLD the axle immediately either side of the caliper as soon as you come into parc ferm or the pit area. There is no transmission of excessive heat that is transmitting through to the bearings, hubs and the left rear tire (pushing the tire pressure up 1 bar) The caliper – with safety in mind, you can touch this too without ripping your skin off……..the brake fluid temperature has only a slight increase of temperature too……Like all NEW products, take 4 or 5 minutes to run these in ‘Thermally condition the products” before you let fly…..I GUARANTEE THE PADS AND ROTOR COMBINATION will give you great braking performance. The pad material and the disc composition are compatible unlike any other pad material / brake disc metals……. WE KNOW what goes into making these products because WE manufacturer both ! GOOD LUCK Patrick. Join my facebook – Vic Eacott

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[quote quote=7164]I’m going to get the pad and rotor and gives these a shot. I have not been that impressed with the VEN05 ceramics in terms of price and cracking and the VEN05 iron/steel eats pads for breakfast. Based on what I know about brakes I’m actually quite optimistic enough to give the Frixa a try. Personally, I think the VEN05 iron/steel rotors are bulky and eat pads due to the large amount of heat they retain. I hope the Frixa design extracts the heat better. [/quote]

[Vic Eacott]

Thanks for your input Matt, great to hear from you……… I am not making any excuses for our  pads but never before, I have heard that a racer that followed OUR running in procedure  / instructions and managed to overheat the pad material OR………… did you do ‘Matt Dixons” running in procedures……pump the pedal a few times until you felt the brake working?.

You said in your statement to the other guys on here (quote) ” Didn’t buy for $30, but they were less then oem………. and now you’re telling me that the FRIXA pads, you didn’t know how much you paid ????????

Matt Dixon
Good luck with that Pat. It was the worst $30 I ever saved!

Let me take you here for a minute please………  http://www.frixa.org/technical

Let me help you out………… It is for FREE, No charge !!

Your pads (no matter what BRAND) will last longer too………

Vic

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Hi to Martin Colligan, Patrick Roth, Watt Gifford and especially Matt Dixon.

I have read your article Matt with greatest of detail and ask you one question…….Where on earth did you buy our brake pads for 30.00 USD, it is impossible to buy them at that price and secondly, I love the way you went into the barriers blaming the pads – a professional never blames his tools Matt.

Education in brake pads – I bet you NEVER read the running in procedures inside the box or, did your mechanic just ‘stuff’ the pads in the caliper and never informed you to ‘run the pad material’ in??? Every professional racer knows, new materials (like your engines) have to have running in time.

The rotors……….are made from PRIME grey iron that have the same composition as our Euroseries Formula 3 rotors (our Parent company HANKOOK TIRE supplies the tires to this race series which is ran in tandem with the German Touring Cars – DTM) so, they are race proven (5 years) materials and as to the brake pads. Ask you ‘fellow’ USA kart racer about Frixa brake pad material, his name is Danny Formal.

So my dear friend Matt – you’ve no right to blame the pad material glazing…….or overheating UNLESS you just ignored the instructions and thought you knew better than the manufacturers ? http://www.frixa.org

The 2 Italian kart Manufacturers, Maranello and Zanardi (Tom Joyner – Lance Stroll) ask them about their experiences of Frixa……..didn’t Tom win the World Champs just recently??

Thank you guys……….

 

[Vic Eacott]

F Y I – Frixa manufactures KZ FRONT PADS for CRG platform and DISCS too.

For all of you, with respect to the metal composition of the brake discs are brought from the F3 single seater race series into the karting world, so you are ‘running with race proven materials’

British grey iron, there are many compositions of this metal, we have a patent on this particular composition.

All our certificates of Manufacturing, ISO, Patents can be seen by anyone – we do not hide away our achievements.

http://www.frixa.org/about-us

Please find these types of certificates on the CRG / Tony Kart / Maranello / Zanardi etc etc websites………There are none, because they do not manufacture these components.

Frixa also makes brakes for BREMBO – AP RACING etc etc and badges their names upon each component.

So, whatever FRIXA race product people buy, they are purchasing genuine race proven materials.

Thank you guys……….

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