Raybestos ST43 Bedding

The only pad we know is Carbotech,bedding instructions were to get em to fade then let em cool, do not come to a stop with your foot on the brake...
Expect less bite then the rp2

BTW, the RP2 should be banished from the earth,if the porterfield doesnt work, ignore all advice and go directly for xp24, you will thank me.

Corvette forums had the Raybestos bedding procedures when we first started using them on on the Dustbuster!  To paraphrase: get them hot by doing three progressive "stops" 50-10 mph, 70-10 mph and 90-10 mph and coast to stop.  Let cool to ambient.

We honestly do not bother anymore as they bed well by just doing about 3 hot laps at the end of TnT and come in to cool.

We got something like 6 races out of our first set of ST-43s on our heavy saab, and they perform amazingly. I think we're still on the first set of rear pads actually.

We never did anything special to bed them in, a couple 45-5 stops behind the shop, then send it racing.

Just to circle back on this, I did the usual "progressively increasingly hard stops until fade" and had no problems at the track, although I doubt they needed any bedding at all. I do drive to the tracks so feel that some initial bedding for street driving is probably helpful.

The pads are great so far, hardly any wear after a full race. They do squeal like metallic banshees for the entire race. I thought they might not be getting up to temp, but Raybestos brushed it off as normal when I inquired.

The other odd thing I noticed was once in every 20 hard braking zones, they seemed to grab with about 250% the initial bite that the normally had. I'm not going to complain much about occasionally better brakes, but I did think it was weird.

Might be the Mini just doesn't get them hot enough. They are fantastic on my Lexus which is both heavy and fast. In your shoes I'd be running the Porterfield R4 up front and R4S in the back and save a ton of money.