Which Brake pads

[Garry]

I have an issue with my rear Bendix Advance pads. On the outside surface the pads are only contacting half of the rotor on both wheels. The inside surface is fine. They've been on the car for about 5000km and they still haven't seated in properly. It's like the pad surface isn't machined true with the backing plate.

The old stock pads worked fine so I dont think it's a rotor issue.

[4sfed5]

Garry: i know whet you mean..... when i took off the pads because they just felt crap, i noticed that the pad had uneven wear/texture accross the surface which bugs me some what... so far ive done more than 2000k's on them and thay still have stuff all feel and grip.

[npn4875]

OK, well I'll add one here... we're not well serviced with brake shops here on the Nothside, so I went to my choice (of one out of one ) and asked him what pads to get that would be better than stock/Bendix and stand up to a bit of track work etc.

He convinced us (me and Boags) to try the TWR pads - better for track work than Bendix, cheaper than the esoteric performance pads, work well from cold...

They were actaully only a bit more exy than Bendix Advance in the finish. From memory the fronts for my car were $90 or thereabouts.

I fitted them front and rear for the track day at QR this morning. They probably weren't as fully bedded in as you'd like when we took to the track, really only a trip top the shops and the hour and a bit drive out to Willowbank.

Result? I am very pleased with them. I was presumably slowing dowm from faster speeds than most, since I was doing the quickest laps and apart from a bit of resin stink after the first session (presumably from being not bedded in properly) thay were perfect. I started out a wee bit tentative - new pads and all plus I've only dríven QR once before - but by the time we got to try the National Circuit which is a real stinker on brakes I was really stamping on them. Not even a trace of going off. We were doing 1 warmup/5 timed/1 cooldown lap, in theory, though I reckon it was six once or twice.

So TWR pads get the thumbs up for price/performance from me.

BUT they were said to be very dusty, and yes - I can vouch for that too!

Mike

[Okibi]

I have advance and i'm not happy with them either.

Before them I had ultimates.

[Adam_NAclubman]

I've had my Greenstuff in for a couple of weeks now, given them a couple of hard runs and theyre great. The standard pads (which still had heaps of meat on them) would get hot and lose their bite after about 7 or 8 minutes on a good hills run. With the Greenstuff I can go for an hour and not have any fade. Very good around town and when cold too

[jules]

Funny...I'm really happy with my RB74's. No fade, pretty quiet and definately no squealing.

Now if I could just get the handbrake to stay nice and tight fr longer than a couple of months.

I also suffered a stone a couple of years back. Made a horrible sound.


Jules

[kitkat]

sorry to hijack
but for those that are in brissy/gold coast... where would be the best place to get new brake pads?? the NA front brakes are a lil bit out of date
Thanks

[AJ]

fitted or just supplied kitkat???

[smiles]

You can try contacting Trevor at http://www.brakedistributors.com.au/contact.html
Not sure if that's anywhere near you tho, but if it's just pads you're after he delivers.

[kitkat]

just supplied thanks AJ, aint that lazy!
thanks for the link smiles ill give em a call.
Anywhere else between gold coast and brissy will be fine just need them pretty soon... the constant squeeling is getting pretty annoying!

[ndragun]

Does anyone have experiences with the Comp3 Race Brakes??

I'm thinking about getting comp2 at the rear and comp3's or RB74's at the front. Considering the Hawk HP Plus too, cos it seem the RB74's arn't as good as I though.

yes.
why would you be getting a comp pad for the rears and an rb74 for the fronts?? that seems a strange combination...

i wouldn't recommend these unless you spend more time at the track than you do on the road. They ARE streetable - but they are also very abrasive and VERY noisy. When cold, I feel a grinding sensation up through the brake peddle and hear the same. They also have some fair limited braking capacity when they're cold (not THAT poor though - but enough to not be your best option).
Comp spec pads are also apparently not pressed as carefully as the usual road pads since they don't aim to meet the same sorts of quality criteria as a street-going pad. I'm told, as a result they tend to have a lot more... er... i guess its 'voidage'... 'bubbles' throughout the pad - which makes them even noisier as you wipe off layers of material.

If you DO spend most of the time at the track though - mate them with some quality fluid and DBA rotors, and your eyeballs will continually hit the windscreen under brakes...

If you want something racy for a street car - don't go further than an A1RM (in my opinion).

[ndragun]

I'll be spending most of my time on the street, while going on track max once every month. So I guess comp spec brakes aren't really the best for the streets.

So what's something that's good on the streets (i.e. good when cold) and still good on track every so often, cos I really cbf changing pads on and off track days.

As I mentioned - A1RMs are probably your best bet.
Advisable with DBA rotors and some good fluid (Castrol SRF in mine right now).

[Red Baron]

Bendix Ultimate.

For everyday driving they are excellent, on the track they stop!

Bit dusty, but that is the side effect of friction, which actually stops you.

They are inexpensive and will give you everything you want from a pad in everyday driving, they stop from cold! And on the track, even with type "R" rubber they do not fade and give excellent feel.

Personally, they have provided the ideal solution, spirited street use, supersprinting (took the Standard class and group last year) and club track days, in the 1.16's at Wakefield.

Put the difference in $ toward a dirty weekend with the missues or a good friend where you don't have to worry about brakes the MX is way too light to care.

baron