BS. The AP1 pads provide more than enough bite to lock up the tires, even on extremely grippy concrete. I've even autocrossed with them. At most, they just require a tad bit more pedal pressure to do so.

If you can find em, AEM made an excellent semi-ceramic pad with very little and light colored dust. They were manufactured by Nissin, the people who make your calipers for Honda, so its in the family.

I just had a set of posi-quiet ceramic pads installed on the S today. Initial impressions is that they seems slightly "softer" than the stock pad. My wheels are still filthy nasty from the OEM AP2 pads, so I don't have an impression on dust just yet. I'm going to put some miles on the new pads before I wash everything off and see how they are dust wise.

Is there pads that have a better initial bite without the dust?

My biggest concern with the posi-quiet is that they do not perform as well as the OEM pads. Just b/c they are ceramic doesn't mean they are guaranteed to have better performance. Keep us updated though!

I don't doubt the OEM pads perform better. Frankly I could care less though. I'm not racing my car and probably never will. My biggest concern was keeping my white wheels clean for longer than 2 days. The amount of washing I would have to do with the OEM pads is downright unacceptable. I'll gladly take 90% of OEM performance if I could get rid of the dust. Hopefully I've achieved that. I'll keep this thread updated as I put some miles on them.

After the initial break-in,the Hawk HPS has very little dust.I run 'em on 2 my cars.The S is next in line for new rotors/pads/SS lines & bleeder valves.

\rlr
carolina

Agreed!

After about a month with the posiquiets (still in break-in period), the fronts are dusting about as much as the OEM rears. Once they fully break in, it should be even less.

I'm really happy with them so far.

It doesn't take that many miles for bed in new brake pads. Unless you drive on the highway a lot, the pads should be fully bedded in a couple hundred miles.