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Old Mar 1, 2010 | 02:44 PM
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Default Re: Brake Pad Options

Originally Posted by andyd
Why didn't you like EBCs? I was gonna stick RedStuffs in my SRT coz the brake dust is driving me mad!!
On the road the Red Stuff never got to the correct operating temperature and therefore had zero bite from cold and had a very wooden feel to them. On track they marginally improved but then would return to there wooden feel after a few hot laps. I think I would have had a better response if I stuck the carboard box they came in onto the calipers. This was on a 300bhp Mitsubishi Evolution.

Greenstuff couldn't take the track heat and the pad material unbonded itself from the backing plates. This was on a car weighing only 850kg. (Not the EVO).

Then there was the 'Turbo Groove Discs' which were destroyed after a track day, again in a car weighing only 850kg. I upgraded to 4 pot Willwoods which were night and day compared to the previous set-up. (Quite interesting in a car without ABS).

So to sum up my EBC experience, it was dreadful and I would therefore never fit them again into any car I owned.
 
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