I have a FD with Brembo cross drilled/slotted rotors, has any used both pads? What is the difference really? My FD is a daily driver so I want something low dust, low/no noise and a decent grip. I do not track the car so that is not an issue. The car sees LA traffic where it will go 80 mph and then have to come to a screeching halt out of no where so I want something that can perform well under all weather conditions on a daily basis.

 

Hawk S = Street - you want pads that perform well cold (emergancy braking).
Hawk + = Track - you want pads that perform well hot (abused/repeated braking).

With that said, I hate metalic pads. I have Hawks HPS on my 7 and they work well for the street. I prefer carbon over semi or full metalic cause they don't chew up the rotors. I used Green stuff on my CRX. I have Z-Speed cross drilled, slottled and angular veined rotors. The pads constanty chewed up the rotors and only after being about 1/3 used I had allready turned my rotors three times. I threw the crap in the trash and bought some carbon ones.

 

i just put on new hawk hps pads, when i changed out the front pads i noticed i had EBC greens on there. the car stopped like crap before, and stops awesome now. however i did do stainless lines and a full fluid flush. i got the hps pads because consensus on the forum was that they were good. i read good and bad reviews on the ebc pads...... anyway i'm happy with my HPS and that even just bedding them in!

 

I have Hawk HPS pads, and they're pretty okay. I didn't notice any increase in stopping power over the OE pads. I have noticed that they dust a lot more than the OE pads.