Whats a good brake pad that doesnt have corrosive brake dust and last long.

 

I find the stock ones fade very badly, looking foreward to replacing them.

 

my car is a piece of ****

 

is it true that the Hawk HPS pads are corrosive!?!?!??!?!?!?? thats news to me!

 

The Hawk's are Ferro-Carbon, and when iron dust sits on paint it rusts, which is corrosive. However I don't think the HPS's are very bad, mostly the Blues. As long as you keep your shitclean, you shouldn't have any problems.

 

ok, cool. i just bought some and got really nervous! i always keep my car clean (as much as i can) so i should be fine. thanks sackdz

 

Raybestos

 

Hawk HPS!!!

 

Anything EBC rules!!!!!!

 

whats with the "Smoke weed everyday" stuff. LOL I've been seeing that is most poll's lately.

 

Pagid Blues work very well.

 

so for a 92 gsr... what would be the best brake pad out there?
I have a 92 gsr, and the rear brake pads need some changing. What do you guys suggest as far as brake pads? AEM? endless? hawk or wut and why any comments. tia.

 

I have used AEM pads and EBC Green Stuff. EBC pads suck period. I know of five people who have had warped rotors while using them.

After getting new rotors and putting AEM pads on the front(still have slightly warped rear stock rotors and EBCs in the rear), I've extremely happy with my braking performance. AEM pads have similar "response" to stock pads but with improved performance, with the exception that they might need a few stops when it's cold to really start grabbing. But after they get a bit of heat in them, they just feel all around better than stock. They don't dust much(can't say that for the EBCs!), and they have never made one sound.

All in all, I don't think you can beat the bang for the buck when these are just used as street pads. I plan on buying AEMs when the EBCs in the rear go out. Although if you're doing any kind of track driving, look into Porterfield R4's or R4S(light track).

 

AEMs are made by nissin (oem manufacturer) so they're reliable and cheap for street, R4's are good pads (light track) but are pretty $$ and wear much too fast to even drive on to the track (in my humble cheap *** opinion)... My next set are gonna be Hawks... never heard anything bad and they're not too $$

 

HAWK HP+ work great for me but I have a lot of stop and go traffic in Japan though ..

 

That sucks about the EBC's, I though they we're supposed to be dustless.

 

EBC is dustless, I don't know about what Def sez but it is dustless and quite a performer...I know, I have one

 

If you say EBC Green Stuff aren't dustless, then you've never owned a set. Sure, EBC claims they are, but the fronts dust at least twice as much as BMW oem pads(which dust alot of OEM). AEMs dust just a tad more than stock(which is almost not noticeable). AEM fronts dust a bit less than my EBC rears(which I'm planning on kicking the bucket within 4k miles).

I'll put it this way, I could wash my car and manage to get all the caked on dust off my wheels, then after some spirited driving for 15 minutes, they'd have a definite dark tint to the whole rim. I changed out the pads after 9k miles, and I'd estimate there was only 30-40% left of the front pads. Compare this to my stockers having about 50-60% left after 18k miles. Where do you think all that brake pad material tended to go? It went on my always dirty wheels.

 

I have to agree on the EBC's. I just put Green Stuff all around, and they grab good. I hardly have to push them in and they stop good, however they were replaceing the stock ones (at 106000 miles noless!!!) which were down to the bone.
And they dust like a b!tch, my wheels get covered after a couple days, with the older 95-96 GS-R wheels (so not a whole bunch of open space to breathe). I paid $120 total for the front and back sets, I didn't even look into the AEM ones, if I were you I would. You may even be able to get some Endless for that price

 

Interesting it says I posted that at 3:03 PM and it's 9:06 AM here in Texas, where the hell is this server at? New Zealand!?!?!??

 

I have EBC Green on front that I bought in Classifieds here and R4S in rear.

Guess which squeal all the MFing time (until I actually step on the pedal)?

EBC.

Stock pads didn't squeal and neither do the R4S in the rear.


I'll probably get some more R4S for the front, even though I was trying to be cheap until I got a Fastbrakes kit (can use stock calipers on the rear for bigger rear kit).

Not worth it.


Server probably runs on Greenwich Mean Time as in Greenwich, England and the prime meridian of longitude.


[Modified by bps2799, 1:05 AM 12/19/2001]

 

Have you gone into 'My Profile' and set your local time up in the prefences.
Then all the times will be adjusted to your zone.