Basically, I am very frustrated with the stock pads on the track(road course). Brakes fade like crazy and it is preventing me from braking as aggressively. I want to upgrade but as my car is a daily driver I don't want to have squeaky pads and I would also like to have just as good of a bite when cold. Every pad I've researched requires too much sacrifice over braking power when cold or with amount of noise it produces or it is inconclusive whether the pad is actually an upgrade over stock.

At this time im not willing to swap pads everytime I go to the track so I would like an upgrade that i can DD. Do pads with less fade, equal cold braking power to oem bite, no squeak exist for our cars?

 

Hawk HPS maybe?

 

I ran Hawk HP+ on my last car i thought they were really good pads but i could not stand the brake squeak. I was considering HPS to compromise but it seems to fit in the category of being "inconclusive whether the pad is actually an upgrade over stock". If anyone thinks otherwise let me know.

 

I just got mine in and will install them in 2 weeks when I get back from Europe and give a nice review.

 

At this time I'm not willing to pay for my food. What do you suggest I do in order to get it for free?

You can drive street pads on the track, but ruin them and spoil your track day. Or you can drive track pads on the street, and live with the dust, the noise, the decrease in cold braking power, the increase in rotor wear, and the extra cost. Or you can buy intermediate pads that aren't very good for either.

Or you can stop whining and just change pads out.

 

Track pad. Street pad. Pick one.

Track pads are not much fun on the street, street pads are downright garbage on the track, and in between pads still aren't worth a damn on the track, unless you're really slow or on a track that really doesn't ask much of the brakes.

Mike beat me to it

 

Akebono pads, no dust, no squeak, and my ride will stop on a dime

 

Great drivers never touch their brakes.



Mike & Gino are correct.

 

[QUOTE=zdave87,May 25 2009, 03:05 PM] Great drivers never touch their brakes.

 

Haven't heard of them. Have you used them on the track? Any fade? Stopping on the dime a couple times on the street is one thing, threshold braking from 100+mph a few times a lap for 30 minutes is another.