What are your preferred pads and why ?

bot the full ebc turbo grooved and drilled discs set with red stuff pads and they work very very well

Until you've tried the Ferodo DS2500 you will never understand how crap Porterfields and EBC Red,Green or Yellow stuff pads really are.

 

Mintex 1155 compound are dam good to. Never tried Hawk but not heard anything posertive about them. Have tried all the others and would never go back to them.

 

Idealy it would be Mintex 1155's for winter as they have the edge from cold and when wet and DS2500's for the rest of the year and DS3000's for track days

I have red stuff on standard discs and although I thought there was an improvement my master cylinder was weeping so I can't comment, but I can say that they are very dusty and chew your discs up pretty bad.

hawk hps say no more. allrounder

 

but ferrodo ds are the mutts

Hawk pad's for me ....BUT only with Brembo disc's....great combo...;)

 

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For a SUB £100 ( £80 to be exact :) ) price the Porterfield imo are a great pad. The ds2500 will perform better and at 40-50% more cost, so they should.

I have the DS2500 on my KAD 6 pot kit and i can't wait to get shut, dusty as hell and a squeal when hot..but yes they perform well :)

2 years ago I had a guy test the 3 ranges of P/F and the 2 ranges of Ferrodo and 2 ranges of EBC pads on his track car, he eats pads at the rate of a set an event.

My R4-S Porterfields beat the EBC, didn't beat the DS2500 but perfromed okay.

Then the R4-E Porterfeild ( still sub £100) was tried and beat the other EBC and was equal to the DS2500 but less dusty.

The R4 porterfield (still cheaper than the 2500 )completly beat the DS2500 and was up there with the race psec DS3000, but the Porterfield didn't eat the discs!

Point being, apart from the many other factors to consider like disc compatibility, old fluid, and old lines, you get what you pay for.

Project -Mu seem to be getting great reveiws on the ole Jap forums no matter what discs are used, so might look at them...

cheers

smithy

good ol' smithy, always there with some sound advice :) cheers bud

sorry but ASK ...Deve8uk about Porterfield's ...new on at the "ring" and faded before he got home ....!!!!!!!!

 

good for track..but not the best for the road ..!!!!!!!

 

p.s. are 41% of you track runner's ..????????

 

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Wozzer beat me to it. Spent close to 300 sobs on pads that where 3/4 left. Swapped to mintex and never had a problem since, been on 3 track days since as well.

 

Then again, I was having to stand on teh brakes on the way home rather hard, especialy with teh steering wheel comming off in my hands at 120mph.

 

no i aint kidding ask the lads. Jay the star put it back on in a car park

What are your preferred pads and why ?

 

Always used Porterfields even paid £190 for a set around 5 years ago as I needed them ASAP. Thought they were top drawer pads until I tried Ferodo and I wont be going back to Porterfield as I found them far too dusty and IMHO dont have the stoping power of Ferodo. No fade at all even standing on the pedal at 170mph.

Wozzer beat me to it. Spent close to 300 sobs on pads that where 3/4 left. Swapped to mintex and never had a problem since, been on 3 track days since as well.

 

Then again, I was having to stand on teh brakes on the way home rather hard, especialy with teh steering wheel comming off in my hands at 120mph.

 

no i aint kidding ask the lads. Jay the star put it back on in a car park

 

Thats wyh you kept going stait on every time we all turned on to different roads or pulled up for food. :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

 

We just though you had carp sat-nav or just plain lost :slap: :rofl:

See this poll in the Aus forum, do we have any of these pads here

 

http://www.aus300zx.com/forum/poll.php?do=showresults&pollid=150

Ferrodo or Mintex. Sory my life is worth more than £80, Id much rather replace the pads regularly and clean the wheels than have them fade on me.

sorry but ASK ...Deve8uk about Porterfield's ...new on at the "ring" and faded before he got home ....!!!!!!!!

 

good for track..but not the best for the road ..!!!!!!!

 

Erm, drove to Germany, raced around a race track at over 150mph and faded on way home to UK, am missing something and "good for track", imo thats a bonus, though P/F R4-S grade arn't meant for racing.

 

Wozzer beat me to it. Spent close to 300 sobs on pads that where 3/4 left

Now your confusing me mate, does that mean you bought second hand pads and ? for 300 quid with 3/4 life in em and you changed them when they started to fade at the ring ? Seeing as you were going to a race track, don't you think a track set up would have been better ?

Oh and you know you wern't the only person who suffered brakes wearing out quickly on that trip, pretty much as per many who race there..

cheers

smithy

Smithy's spot on about the Ferodo's. I use them myself. Great performers but v.dusty and they squeal like a bar-steward.