Help me pick a pad compound
Get A Stoptech BBK. It literally takes more time to jack the car up and pull the wheel off then it does to swap out the pads. The pads slip right out the top of the caliper, don't even have to remove the caliper. Love it! The rear OEM still suck though. But the Stoptech Sport pads might fit the bill. Initial bite is better then oem, and dust a little more but not bad. They seem to fall right between OEM and Hawk HP+ as far as cold bite and dust. No noise on the Stoptechs though which is absolutely horrifying with HP+. HP+ is also extremely hard on rotors I found. I have not tracked the Stoptech sport pads though. Some have, and I have consistently heard from them that they fair pretty well actually, better then expecting. Anyway, dual duty pad is always a compromise, so just have to figure out where your willing to make that compromise, more on the street or more on the track. HP+ was intended to be my dual duty pad at one point, but it was too compromising on the street and track both for me.
Last edited by sirbikealot7; May 7, 2017 at 07:46 PM.
That's true of Hawk Blue for sure and probably some other Hawk pads, but not my experience with DTC-60. I ran a track day last fall and then again last Friday. This weekend I cleaned the track wheels (OEM AP2V1) with Meguiars wheel cleaner and the dust came off easily and without any damage to the wheel finish.
I would just pony up and buy some solid pads, I've had Winmax W4s on my car on stock brakes for the last few track days which are a compromise pad and was able to put done some 1.55's at the Ridge yesterday with them, but they got far too hot and I had to give them some cool down laps. Nothing makes me more frustrated than spending $350 on a track day to not be able to drive to full potential because of equipment failure or compromise.
Nice time btw! s2000 I assume on R comps/wing?
Last edited by s2000Junky; May 8, 2017 at 08:48 AM.









