CT5-V Track prep - Steel Brake cooling parts

[AdamUCF]

How necessary are the extra brake cooling bits for track days with the 5BW with steel brakes? They seem like a bit of a chore to install and I can't imagine swapping back and forth before/after track days.

Does anyone have experience tracking their car without them? Or leaving them on for normal street driving?

 

[Teutonaddict]

Late reply here. As I understood it, the 5BW's at the Cadillac V-Performance Academy were bone-stock, steel-rotor models, and they ran all day long without brake cooling issues. Only adjustments they make there is much shorter duration service intervals, whether oil, brakes, or rubber. Now each configuration at Spring Mountain Motor Resort is relatively short and low(er) speeds, but some of the instructors reported running the 5BW's on the connected configuration (4 track segments all together), again with no cooling issues.

I've not run my Blackwing at my home track (COTA) so I can't compare it to my previous V2 wagon. The long roof did need brake cooling on the back straight even with dedicated track pads and rotors, lol.

 

[Kawman]

I'm driving a 4BW. I did my first 5 track days without adding the kit and now leave it on, although I don't do a lot of street miles.

It's not just adding the air deflector, but also removing a plate that protects from debris getting up into the brakes.