Brake/ Rotor - Combo. OEM?

Relapse · Postby **Relapse** » Sun Nov 06, 2016 8:00 pm

Hey guys,
The front breaks on my 99 NB8A are going out. So i figured i might as well do both the front and the rear at the same time.
Read a lot of reviews and it seems many people recommend OEM pads and rotors for general daily driving (which is pretty much all i do)
but i cant find anywhere that sells OEM Pads/Rotors - can anyone guide me to a place? Or anyone have other recommendations?
Cheers

Magpie · Postby **Magpie** » Sun Nov 06, 2016 8:56 pm

MX5 Mania for rotors

Motorsport Brakes for Winmax pads. Possibly W3's they are a great pad for street and light track.

manga_blue · Postby **manga_blue** » Sun Nov 06, 2016 10:33 pm

You'd only get OEM apds from Mazda dealers or Amayama.com. I wouldn't really trust pads from Mazda Australia to be original quality any more. Amayama still deal only in original quality parts from Japan. As an example the part number for OEM front pads is NCY13323Z and they're $207 plus freight from Amayama (which will probably be a lot cheaper than Mazda). Basically you can do much better from brands like QFM or WInmax from GSLrallysport for about a third of the price.

I'd recommend QFM HPX as a good performance pad with nice feel, low dust, gentle on rotors and low noise for general street use with the occasional track day or long steep rapid descent. Otherwise it might pay you to just ring GSLrallysport and get their recommendations.

hks_kansei · Postby **hks_kansei** » Mon Nov 07, 2016 6:39 am

Rotors just use oem or equivalent.

I've never had problems with RDA brand rotors, and they're cheap.

Pad wise, Manga is correct that the QFM HPX are supposed to be good, but when I called them a few months back about a set they said they no longer make them for the NB8A

Dont bother with Bendix General CT, I bought them as a last minute thing... They're ok but not really worth the money. They perform about the same as the $20 Chinese pads I used to have (cost more than $20 though)

smy0003 · Postby **smy0003** » Mon Nov 07, 2016 8:38 am

Brakes direct said they happily sell me hpx pads in na8 size, which is the same as nb8a. Seems weird tehyd keep making the backing plates for the a1rm pads but not put the hpx compound on them.

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