Hi, Guest
10-17-2007, 03:59 AM
i have some thoughts that i think could be helpful for others thinking about going with a brake pad that is marketed as 'high performance' based on my experience daily driving and tracking a pad (brembo sport pads) marketed by tire rack as 'autoX/track'.. ie supposedly similar to hawk hp+ pads
1) most of the time my 'autoX/track' 'performance' pads are doing squat. they are way too cold on the street to notice any of the 'performance' attributes such as aggressive initial bite or pad fade resistance or compression resistance (ie don't waste money on a performance pad unless you will actually be hammering on your brakes at a track or in the mountains)
2) even if you bed in your brakes correctly, you will need to rebed them before doing any serious performance driving... the performance pads stay cold (abrasive) so they take off the transfer layer you put down during bed in.. i didn't realize this before, and that is why i got brake shudder in the first place. in the future before i track my car, i will repeat the bed in procedure on the way to the track to help avoid shudder (ie don't just go to the track and start hammering on your brakes without rebedding them)
3) it might be better to keep an OE pad for street use and a hardcore track pad for track use.. (ie there's really no way for a pad to stay usable on the street and temp resistant for the track. the pads i'm using are definitely rougher on the rotors than OE pads when cold and a real track pad would be like a portable lathe when cold.. i may have overheated these 'dual purpose' pads on the track without using r compounds)
4) it really seems like all 'performance' pads dust like a biatch.. when i get these pads good and hot.. and i am really using them.. i am generating dust like crazy.. (ie if a pad is marketed at 'performance' AND 'dusts less' be wary of teh snake oil salesman)
hope that helps!
1) most of the time my 'autoX/track' 'performance' pads are doing squat. they are way too cold on the street to notice any of the 'performance' attributes such as aggressive initial bite or pad fade resistance or compression resistance (ie don't waste money on a performance pad unless you will actually be hammering on your brakes at a track or in the mountains)
2) even if you bed in your brakes correctly, you will need to rebed them before doing any serious performance driving... the performance pads stay cold (abrasive) so they take off the transfer layer you put down during bed in.. i didn't realize this before, and that is why i got brake shudder in the first place. in the future before i track my car, i will repeat the bed in procedure on the way to the track to help avoid shudder (ie don't just go to the track and start hammering on your brakes without rebedding them)
3) it might be better to keep an OE pad for street use and a hardcore track pad for track use.. (ie there's really no way for a pad to stay usable on the street and temp resistant for the track. the pads i'm using are definitely rougher on the rotors than OE pads when cold and a real track pad would be like a portable lathe when cold.. i may have overheated these 'dual purpose' pads on the track without using r compounds)
4) it really seems like all 'performance' pads dust like a biatch.. when i get these pads good and hot.. and i am really using them.. i am generating dust like crazy.. (ie if a pad is marketed at 'performance' AND 'dusts less' be wary of teh snake oil salesman)
hope that helps!