MODS: Can we change the titke to say Hawk Pads, please?
Tire Rack has a sale on Hawk pads till the end of the year. I need pads on the FR-S, so this sale is relevant to my intrests. But...what pad? This is a 100% street driven car.
There is a lot of overlap on their compounds. I'm leaning towards long life, good lower temp bite, and low dust, in that order.
What say? The Street/Race 5.0 looks good. But is there better?
From my experience with EBC pads - none of them. Although I did have Yellow Stuff pads on the MR2 due to lack of other options.
Based on your requirements I'd look at the Hawk pads first, and if you *must* use EBC, either green or yellow.
Hp+ is what i run on about everything. Good life, good cold and hot bite. Rarely fade.
I've just ordered a set of street 5.0 pads for the S2000, but it'll be a few days until I get first driving impressions.
I did have the Street/Race pads on a Miata, they're pretty dusty and rather noisy, but worked really well. Probably a little too well for good street manners. IIRC they're something like a DTC-30 with an extended temperature range, so they are rather aggressive.
Was here to say verbatim what boxhead said lol.
I have a set of the old version of HPS and they're fine. No noise, easy on rotors, no/low dust. My main complaint is there's not much initial bite, so the pad doesn't feel very sporty. Still smooth and modulates ok.
The Red Stuff ceramic compound is very good and low dust. I use them in preference to the Hawk range.
I have tried the green and red ones, the green ones work well but make a huge amount of dust and wear out extremely fast, the red ones work fine with moderate dust but no other annoyances. I only bought them because they were the only performance pads available quickly for the car I put them on but they are good enough I would buy them again.
I have run HP+ on every car I've owned for the last 10+ years. They are great pads if you can tolerate the dust. The HPS would probably cover what you want.
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