What brake pads are you guys using? i keep finding Hawk and someone mentioned HP Blue. Whats good for street and track? My brakes are all stock at the moment.

 

http://www.porterfield-brakes.com/

I am currently running the Porterfield R4-S on my car. They have nice initial bite, havnt noticed any fade, but do give off a fair amount of brake dust.

 

How do they feel on the street?

 

I'm going to try hawk hps on all four corners with some slotted front rotors and brembo oe rears.

My **** squeels terribly and my pads ate my front rotors to ****. Bummer. Really puts a damper on a few of the things i wanted to do however, brakes are pretty ******* important. They are actually getting weaker every day. I used to be able to stop using engine braking and the edge of my big toe. Now it's more of the ball of my foot and every day i have to use more and more pressure. ******* sucks.

If the hawks dont work for me, it's either because my hydro install is going to blow dicks or i just blow dicks. Alot of ppl swear by em so i see no reason why they shouldn't be good for me, you or anyone else with a street car who likes to slide or a track **** that doesn't need overdone 8 pot fronts and 4 pot rears with 16" 2pc rotors....

 

Tell Turbo II Rotor to stop spreading Crisco on your rotors and you may be able to stop a touch better.

 

I'm sure he'd much rather stab holes in my primary to secondary fuel rail line.



I probably didn't grease the pins the pads slide on and they weren't returning fully but there is for SURE a stepped lip on both of my front rotors that wasn't there when i rebuilt my brakes. It just took a few months for that to catch up to me. Snow, road salt, sand.....Bleh. My own dumbass fault.

 

im have hawks now and have run hawks on my two past fc's they feel great on street and on the track

 

How about the hawk Hp+. Supposed to be the track worthy street brake? Any experience wih them?

 

I used to have Hawk HP with Brembo rotors on my FD. No complaints there. I have changed them out for a set of RacingBrake rotors and Racing Brake ET800 pads. I will tell you how those go after I use them.

On my FC I have EBC Red Stuff pads on Brembo rotors. No complaints with them either. I have noticed a little bit more brake fade with the EBC than Hawk, but not enough to matter. I am switching that system out (Rotors and Pads are pretty much at the end of their trackable lives) I am putting in Stoptech rotors and Hawk HP+ Pads.

With both my FD and FC I use Stock calipers. I have yet to run into the situation where they weren't good enough, but as a side note I have rebuilt all the calipers on both cars within the last year.

 

Nice. Can you update when you do the stoptech and hp+ please? This is the exact set up im thinking about. What brembos are you running? oem spec?

 

^^ The Brembos I had on the FD were drilled and slotted. The Brembos on the FC are OEM replacement. The Stoptechs I am going to run on the FC are drilled and slotted.

 

when do you plan on doing the stop tech swap?

 

^^ Pretty soon. Either end of this month or the beginning of March. I need to have everything buttoned up by April.

 

OEM in the back, Hawks in the front. I don't use my E-brake often though. My rear brakes don't heat up as fast as the fronts so I don't know if it even matters.

 

cool! well hit this page up with some info when youve tried it out.