Brake Pad Reviews

Rangerz

Anyone have any experience with EBC Bluestuff pads? I've seen talk on the yellowstuff but according to the ebc website our car wieght recommend the bluestuff.

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GSS138

Can vouch for Endless MX72's. For a track car used as a daily driver I can not see how anyone could make a better pad. Smooth and linear with 0 fade at the track. Absolutely no noise on the street, with normal amount of dust.

Would not recommend them for auto X-they are not a bitey pad, but display a ton of smooth stopping control/trail braking feel.

You get what you pay for with brake pads. There is a big difference between a 50.00 and a 200.00 pad.

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ValidusVentus

Agreed on all accounts ... but to clarify the dust: The MX72s do dust noticeably more than the oem sport pads, especially if your using them like they are designed to be

Think the best/cheapest place to get them at the moment is Forged actually (largely due to their free shipping on anything over 99 bucks), I have a rear pair on order from them right now.

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Footloose301

Looks like I'm shopping for some XP8's for the fronts here before I take a journey up to ZDayZ. I have Z1 slotted rotors ~5k on them now, but the stock pads at ~53k+ and I don't have a clue how much life is left in them but it can't be much.

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mdxj

I wonder how the XP8's will be cold. Their site listed their range from 200-1250*

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wstar

They're not horrible cold. Maybe not optimal, but not dangerous either.

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Joepro

Guy at work runs EBC red in auto-x and on the street, he had one pad bonding seperate but he called EBC and they replaced it pronto. I just swapped a whole set of EBC red on the car yesterday with new stoptech rotors in the rear, I have Z1 2 piece in the front with about 500 miles on them, I was starting to get a slight pulsation last week on the stock pads...it is minor, I was hoping it was the junk OE pads, but no, of course it is not. I emailed Z1 to see if these rotors are able to be turned, they are not as thick as OE so I am hesitant to turn them, I am obvious in break-in mode on the pads, but it is a world of difference so far, the bite is 10x better than OE and they feel so much better, still had plenty of meat on the OE pads at 27k, I would say still a good 6-7/32nds. I will check back in after the pads are fully bedded.

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Sh0velMan

Anyone looking at serious track pads should look at the CL Brakes RC6's or RC5+'s for a bit more conservative use.

Everyone uses the Carbotech pads as the 'Go to' track pad, but these CL pads are top notch and much more widely used, from an international point of view.

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SurfDog

Im running RE11s on 18 inch square fit (275s) for the track and PSS on 19 OEM Rays for the street
I also run Sport the setup calipers with RBF600 and Z1 2 piece rotors
Z1 2 Piece Akebono Front Rotors

I also run Stillen (OEM fascia) brake cooling ducts.

I've tried several sets of pads:
OEM (of course)
Pros: no dust, no noise, came preinstalled
Cons: huge fade in road course after 5-10 minutes of driving.

Hawk street pads
Pros: Not too dusty, good initial grip at track when cool, only occasional squeel
Cons: noticible road course fade with 20 minute session

Hawk ceramics (I dd these still in winter)
Pros: No dust, no sequel, good cold weather performance
Cons: very noticeable road course fade at high temps (do not track these... I tried)

Hawk HPS+ (I run these on track and in summer DD. I "DD brake" carefully so as to not eat my rotors)
Pros:awesome track performance when warm. Good initial grip/no fade (in my use/setup)
Cons: TONS of dust (seriously bad), squeak at every stop, very grabby for DD they need to be warmed up a bit before you can really trust them for an aggressive stop.

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