Thread: Performance brake pads

I have always liked the way Axxis pads stop, but yes, they're better warm. The upside is that it doesn't take that long to get them warm. Hawks are good too, I never noticed a big difference in dust between them, IMHO.

I'm going to have to do a run a poll, I have 3 members that say axxis and 1 that says go hawks this is going to be a tough choice.

Make sure you guys make your vote heard in my new thread >> http://www.sr20-forum.com/general-sr20/17843-brake-pad-battle-axxis-v-s-hawk.html

You do not need to make all of these threads on the same topic. You are cluttering up things that do not need to be cluttered. If you would spend a little time searching for what you are looking for you would have your answer already. So please exercise caution when making new posts.

does no one use bobcats anymore. Always heard good things about those pads

Those bobcats are the ones I had when I did the AD22 upgrade. I think most people that run the Bobcats do so on the NX brakes. People steered away from carbotech when madmatt left because their customer service went to hell.

I just replaced a set of used up Bobcats on my dd. They dusted pretty heavily, but not as bad as Ultimates. I had a hard time getting them to bed in properly in the beginning and as a result they were not giving me the stopping power that I expected -- like half the braking power of stock pads. Pretty frustrating.

Eventually they got better and gave good service over 50,000 miles. I had previously gotten 31,000 miles from a set of Ultimates under identicle driving conditions. So, the Bobcats give a quality stop and a lot of miles for a performance pad. But they are expensive (something like $120 a set is what I think I paid). Be careful not to fry them when you bed them in, which is what I did.

At the end of the day, it's your tires that stop your car, not your brakes. The high coefficent of friction front pads give more grab with less pedal pressure but will not increase your ultimate deceleration force which is limited by your tires for any reasonable streetable configuration. And, radically changing the coefficient of friction for the front brakes will change the front to rear bias, causing early lock up in the front before your rears get a chance to make the small contribution that they are designed to make. Something to keep in mind.

At this point, I am running Nissan OEM pads all around on my dd. It stops fine, dusts little, and I can lock up my wheels with a little extra pedal pressure, so I don't feel like I'm losing any performance. After years of cleaning my wheels every week, it has sadly come down to low dust being the most important criterion to me for a brake pad on my dd.

Crap, I'm long winded. Hope some of this is helpful.

Bill

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Know what sucks hawk does not make the rear pads for the 200sx/b14 ouch!

Are there any companies out there that make performance pads for both the front and the rear calipers. For the 200sx? I don't understand why most companies only manufacture pads for the fronts. I know most of the braking is up front but if all the wheels stopped equally would that not contribute to a faster stop? Also Billc is there any way to adjust the brake bias on our cars other than changing pads?