Best price for Hawk Blue's ?

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Re: Best price for Hawk Blue's ?

Postby Hjt » Mon Sep 30, 2013 12:18 am

EBC Green won't last long.

I use them for street pads.

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Re: Best price for Hawk Blue's ?

Postby MattR » Mon Sep 30, 2013 7:25 am

beavis wrote:I've had disappointing results from RDA's in the past also... similar to Phil's pic above.

I buy my pads from http://www.hawkpadsdirect.com/


Another vote here for hawkpads direct.com. The only thing I have found is that shipping can take a little while, about 4 weeks at times.

And you can buy 4 or 5 sets of pads for the same postage price, just keep adding to the quantity in the checkout until your purchase trips the postage to the next level.

I got 2x sets of front and rear HP+ for my NA6 for change out of $300 when the dollar was at about $1.05 US last year

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Re: Best price for Hawk Blue's ?

Postby mrschlim » Mon Sep 30, 2013 8:06 am

beavis wrote:I've had disappointing results from RDA's in the past also... similar to Phil's pic above.

I buy my pads from http://www.hawkpadsdirect.com/


Me too. I only managed one track day on RDA rotors before the rotors developed cracks like that.

Ended up with the similar cracks on DBA rotors after about 6-7 track days.

Hawke blue pads in both cases.

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Re: Best price for Hawk Blue's ?

Postby RaceTech » Mon Sep 30, 2013 12:22 pm

Hawk direct @ $116us + shipping seem the cheapest but I dont have the lengthy time to wait unfortunately so I will have to pay a little extra for local.

Ended up getting new oem front and rear rotors and a set of Hawk blue front and rear pads from MX5 Mania @ $525.00

Now need to find some braided brake lines and a set of semi slicks at a competitive price :/

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Re: Best price for Hawk Blue's ?

Postby ja9 » Fri Oct 04, 2013 8:15 pm

Just so the rest of us have something to compare. I just bought the same pads from Hawkpadsdirect for $286 including postage. Seems being patient does pay off. Also they shipped them out 2 days after I placed my order. I'm happy.

RaceTech, you already knew all this. Maybe next time we can share the postage.
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Re: Best price for Hawk Blue's ?

Postby mazmad » Fri Oct 04, 2013 8:51 pm

How's the car John? See you in November at WP?

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Re: Best price for Hawk Blue's ?

Postby davekmoore » Fri Oct 04, 2013 10:04 pm

Hjt wrote:EBC Green won't last long. I use them for street pads.

I do over-use my brakes but was still disappointed that EBC Green did less than one sprint day for me.
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Re: Best price for Hawk Blue's ?

Postby ja9 » Sat Oct 05, 2013 9:41 am

mazmad wrote:How's the car John? See you in November at WP?


Aiming to get to WP in November. Didn't like how the gearbox felt at the end of last time out though. I hope its just my imagination and not another gearbox issue.
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Re: Best price for Hawk Blue's ?

Postby mazmad » Sat Oct 05, 2013 11:34 am

Oh let's hope not. My wife's car died in the M5 in peak hour this week....new gearbox. Under warranty thk crikey.

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Re: Best price for Hawk Blue's ?

Postby ja9 » Thu Oct 10, 2013 2:46 pm

Thought I'd report back on my purchase of Hawk pads. They arrived today 10 days after I placed my order. That's pretty good going.
UNDERSTEER is when you hit the wall with the front of the car. OVERSTEER is when you hit the wall with the rear of the car.


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