I'm looking for a street pad that has a decent life and will work in the cold weather. I don't really care about squeaks. I drive thru NJ to Manhattan to Brooklyn a few times a week and my brakes start to fade a bit in the stop and go. I want more initial bite and quicker response more than anything. Please post up setups that YOU'VE USED and let me know about your experiences.
Thanks

 

I use:

Goodridge SS lines
Motul
Cobalt GT-S pads

They work great for autocross and Dragon runs. This will be an extreme set-up for Daily Driving.

 

Too aggressive meaning dust, noise, wear? Do they need to be warmed up?

 

dust noise and wear.

These are Auto-X pads so the warmup is very short. If I hit the brakes hard you will get thrown forward with a great deal of force. These are serious pads.

I've heard them be very very loud. I just put on my set with heaps of non squeal goo and so far they are quiet. But after a track day (on somebody else's car) these have been the loudest pads I have ever heard.

 

Cool- thanks. I don't really mind 'em loud, I just want that whiplash bite. My friends FX35 has more initial response in its pads than our cars so I'm getting jealous.

 

I have yet to find a pad with great initial bite and i think it has more to do with our braking system. I have Stoptech rotors and lines as well as Hawk and Axxis pads.

 

I've been looking at
-Porterfield R4S
-Axxis Ultimate
-Hawk HPS
-EBC Green/Red

Anyone try these out?

 

I have the Axxis Utlimates on my car now. I tried Hawk HP+ not the HP though. Our G35 had the EBC green.

Like i said though i didn't notice the intial grab going up.

 

The HAWK HPS pads need to warm up; the initial bite I found to be worse than OEM. Once warm they were pretty darn good. They ate my rotors however.

I forgot to mention that I am running Cobalt rotors with the Cobalt pads. Best initial bite I have experienced in an S2K, besides BBK.

 

synpower dot4 valvoline
stock disc
axxis ultimate

it's a good street combo, pretty consistant feel and braking.

the downside is that it's sqeal once a while and it's dirty as hell

i run those on all of my cars