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Feb 14, 2005 15:32:09 GMT
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What sort of pads would people here recommend. The brakes on the Zs have been beefed up to bigger, vented discs with 4 pot ap racing calipers. I have a set of competition pads, which sounds grooovey, but I'm sure that 90% of the time in road use they're going to be nowhere near hot enough to work properly.
So... standard road pads or something a bit better?
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Feb 14, 2005 15:53:07 GMT
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I've always used Pagid on my Golf. Just the normal ones. I tried the fast road variety which are more expensive, last 25% less, make more dust and felt exactly the same!!
Never had any problem stopping on those.
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Feb 14, 2005 15:57:00 GMT
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I put EBC greenstuff on the Ashtray along with EBC grooved / Drilled discs. A little bit overkill for a road car perhaps (especially one that isn't over-endowed with power), but the missus' driving style is very "brakes heavy" and the standard ones kept getting knacker'd up. Got standard ones on the Bimmer, but that's because (a) with all-round discs it doesn't really need uprating and (b) I don't use the brakes that much!
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Feb 14, 2005 16:05:23 GMT
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I'd recomend greenstuff as well, got them on the spider & 75, but don't belive the spiel about them producing "no brake dust".
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Feb 14, 2005 20:27:28 GMT
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Have heard good things of the Greenstuff pads. I've got Mintex 1144's they're reasonably good from cold & great when hotter & they seem to last a lifetime ;D
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Feb 14, 2005 20:42:53 GMT
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Either EBC or Mintex m1144 are both great for road use. EBC are supposed to better from cold cos they have kevlar in them but you would be hard pushed to tell the difference. You don't want anything more than either of those unless you are racing or rallying
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Feb 14, 2005 20:44:53 GMT
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I'm not in the habit of doing much to my Imp's brakes since I've never found them lacking, so they're still drums all round with regular linings etc.
The Volvos do have discs on the other hand, and I know from experience of messing about with different kinds that the curse word about no dust is just that, curse word, the only brakes that don't give off dust are drum brakes! ;D ;D
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"He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!"
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Feb 14, 2005 21:06:50 GMT
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ive got normal pagid ones on my merc too.they haul the big girl down from 70 in a crack.theyve been on 2 years with minimal wear.checked them yesterday when i stripped the hubs down. got double pull bmx brakes on the 411 ;D
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Feb 14, 2005 21:14:21 GMT
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ive got normal pagid ones on my merc too.they haul the big girl down from 70 in a crack.theyve been on 2 years with minimal wear.checked them yesterday when i stripped the hubs down. got double pull bmx brakes on the 411 ;D ive been there , they are scary bad, much like my siggys ive got some mintex pads which i must remember to put in when the turbos running
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