I *know*. The REASON I re-bled was because I figured (like you, and logically so) that long/soft pedal => fluid. Wrong. In this case it was the HPS pads.

The pads also went away quicker than any pads (other than the aforementioned parts store specials) I've ever used. Three ~15 minute sessions and they were gone.

 

A good track pad sucks on the street, the same goes for a good street pad on track.

there's tons of marketing hype out there that promise both but it just doesn't work like that(at least for now)

 

In my experience, the Carbotech XP8 is both a "good" street pad (save for some noise prior to tracking them) and a "good" (plenty good enough for me anyway) track pad.

No marketing hype on them, Carbotech explicitly states that they're not street pads. But I think they do just fine there.

Still it is better and cheaper (in the long run) to run street pads on the street and track pads at the track.

 

[QUOTE=ZDan,May 30 2009, 05:07 PM]In my experience, the Carbotech XP8 is both a "good" street pad (save for some noise prior to tracking them) and a "good" (plenty good enough for me anyway) track pad.

No marketing hype on them, Carbotech explicitly states that they're not street pads.

 

I usually run my XP10/XP8's on the street for a few days before/after track days when I have time to swap them, I've actually been on them a couple weeks now since I broke my impact driver bit taking the stock rotors off, so I'm ditching the whole rotor swapping deal and getting a set of Carbotech's street compound.

I think they're ok to run on the street if you don't mind the sizeable amounts of dust and the INSANE amount of noise. I'm running mine without shims or anti-squeal, so the low-speed/light pressure situation makes these things scream loud enough everyone within a quarter mile will hear them.

 

Ok.