Just a question for you guys on brake pads. In the VW crowd, the EBC Green Stuff brake pad products get a lot of conversation (and use). How are these products perceived outside of that group?
Just a question for you guys on brake pads. In the VW crowd, the EBC Green Stuff brake pad products get a lot of conversation (and use). How are these products perceived outside of that group?
"If you get to thinkin` you`re a person of some influence, try orderin` somebody else`s dog around."
--Will Rogers
I have never used green stuff but a lot of people seem to like them.
Tire Rack sold them along with several other brands of high performance brake pads and rotors but they dropped the EBC from their line of products.
Some don`t know it but Tire Rack sells Brakes as well as tires.
now thats funny right their...
As most have said the rotors warp because of heat, drilled and slotted are aiding in the kooling process. The reason most fade occures in brakes at high speeds is they again get "hot" they need cooling. Most hp cars come with the upgraded rotors already from the factory. Trucks in most cases "dont" but in fact "should" because of extra weight and towing situations where breaking is a huge factor. And as many have already said the ceramic pads are nice as far as reduced dusting...
To answer you question on internet orders I have not done that sorry. I have in fact had good luck with local shops ordering things for me in this regard. I dont like the net for everything, when a local guy orders and its wrong I do have a option to return the item and its on him in most cases if they send the wrong part.
I bought my brake upgrade for my Corvette on-line but they only sell Corvette stuff so I have not bought anything for OEM style brakes other than OEM for my DD.
When I upgraded the vette I installed rotors that were much larger in diameter and much thicker. I also replaced the 2 piston caliper with a 6 piston caliper
It cost about $3500.00 for the kit but they are awesome.
Changing the rotors required that I install different wheels to clear the big rotors and buy new tires $2500.00 for wheels and $330.00 a piece for the G Force tires made for a expensive brake job over $7500.00 total.
Hawk HPS pads would be great for pulling the boat but be forewarned they will dust far more than OEM but any pad that out performs OEM will dust more you can`t have your cake and eat it too.
How much dust a brake pad makes is a relative thing it is like how well a car stops or how fast it is it depends on who you are talking to.
Performance means something different to different people.
A extreme example of that would be one time at a car show this old geezer came up to my car and was looking at it and I had a dyno sheet on the windshield showing that it had dyno-ed at 1178HP the old guy said boy I`ll bet it is fast ??
I said yea it runs pretty good he said I had a car like that once.
I ask what kind of car was it he said a 1938 Ford
If you had true high performance pads you would decide that what you have now is not so bad after all.
If your pads are dusting bad they would be a very poor ceramic pad that probably has very little ceramic in it.
The box says ceramic that would be like gasoline that claims to have fuel injector cleaner in it.
If they put one ounce in 10,000 gallons then they can say it has injector cleaner in it.
Bottom line you have less dust than organic pads or you got a poor set of ceramic because that is ceramics claim to fame is light dust,
However if you driver real hard even ceramic will dust bad but still not as bad as organic pads will.
So what is the latest have you fixed the brakes yet.
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