Hey Everyone,

I'm in the market for some O.E. style replacement rotors and I'm looking at tirerack.com and have a question about some of the selections. My driving style is aggressive and I daily drive my S. I will be buying Hawk HPS pads with the rotors.

I'm comparing the Cryostop Rotors
http://www.tirerack.com/brakes/brakes.jsp?...lar=&perfCode=S

Centric Premium
http://www.tirerack.com/brakes/brakes.jsp?...lar=&perfCode=S

Or ATE PremiumOne
http://www.tirerack.com/brakes/brakes.jsp?...lar=&perfCode=A

any experience with any of these would help! Thanks in advance!!

 

Centric Premium (or the cryoed version if you think it is worth the money).

 

I have the ATE on my car and they have worked fine. If you are doing any track I would go with the Cryo Stop. They are going to resist warping and cracking. If I can help let me know.

 

I've had a GREAT experience with Cryo-Stops (centric)

 

In my experience, Hawk HPS pads are worse than stock on the street, and WAY WAY worse than stock (unusable really) at the track.

AWFUL pads.

 

Really? Could you explain more about your experience?

I've heard they must get up to a certain operating temperature to be very effective, could that be a reason for your bad experience?

 

For one thing, they're street pads and they do NOT need to "get up to temp" to be effective.

My experience was, I put them on the car a couple of days prior to a track event, and immediately the brakes felt a bit softer and had less bite vs. stock.

At the track, within about a lap and a half the pedal got REALLY long/soft. I bled brakes, same thing (long/soft pedal) next session. I was having to downshift early and rely on engine braking to get the car whoa'd. After one more session of the worst braking experience I've ever had on-track, I swapped the stockers back in and got reasonably decent braking (relatively speaking). Oh yeah, after three sessions, the HPS pads were GONE.

HPS were, in my experience, significantly WORSE than stock both on the street and track. At the track they were the WORST pads I've experienced. As bad as cheapo parts store specials I had to use once.

AWFUL pads.

 

hahaha.... dunno why anyone would put hawk HPS pads on a car. it especially cracks me up when someone puts a big brake kit on then puts crappy pads on it.

if you're driving on the street get OE pads. if on the track, get a more aggressive compound. from my experience brake pads are usually you get what you pay for.

i have carbotech xp8's on my miata and liked them so i got xp10/8 for the s2k but haven't installed them yet.

 

hm, I just thought they were pretty good pads due to the majority of reviews on tirerack.com praised the product.

what are some good alternatives?

 

Carbotech, FTW!