Longest Lasting Brake Pad (Page 1 of 3)

My $.02. We have run the R4-E pads and several sets of the Hawk HP+ pads and noticed no real difference. They both last an entire weekend and still hae some life left in them. I keep hearing great thing about Carbotech stuff, but I have a hard time forking over that much dough for brake pads on a really crappy car. I will say that the bedding process is very important (fresh rotor surface & follow the instructions with pads) and brake cooling will extend the life a little.  We are thinking about trying the EBC Blue pads next and see how they run. They are slightly cheaper than the Hawks.

we are 6 races in on a set of used carbotec xp10's, and just swapped them out for a new set. Only replaced the rotors once as well. They may not be cheap up front, but are cheaper in the long run.

We get to park the car and drink beer while other teams do brakes.

Check your invoice; it's the RP-2

they don't even list them on their site, but they're more than happy to set us lemon-types up with them.

Performance Friction 06's.

We had Hawk pads all round for Lesez de crapheap and found that the rear pads dissapeared faster than the fronts.....in fact, I put a usd second set on the rear for the final 8 hours and they also dissapeared......its on a pretty light E30....wondering if we have some caliper issues on the back!

Anybody tried MINTEX racing pads, they are really hard but ver good in the heat

EBC Green/Red/Yellow are getting popular for low dust on raod cars and grip on race cars but I think they are pretty over priced and not any better than others.

I tried looking up Mintex & Pagid pads but there catalog was very difficult to navigate online and often led me to dead ends. For a brake pad maker they didn't seem very customer service driven. could be just me :shrug:

EBC I'd skip anything less than YellowStuff or BlueStuff(their racing pad)

Amen to the calling Carbotech.  We called them after the big merc fused the pads to the caliper piston day one of south spring.  We called carbotech, told them what we were doing (racing a 4000 lb car in an endurance race) and they hooked us up with pads that don't even look 1/4 worn after the entire Summit Point race. We plan on using the same pads and rotors in the Feb CMP race.  Granted, CMP is much harder on brakes than Summit, but I cant give Carbotech enough kudos.  Give em a call.

Just take any advice you get here with a grain of salt. What works for some people won't work for others.

I only say this because we've had great luck with PBR/Axxis Ultimates on our sub-2400 lb E30. They were the best off-the-shelf pads I could get through my work, and I've been more than happy with how they performed on track. We are now going on five races using the same front pads on our car, rears lasted four races. But I recently spoke to another E30 team and they said they blew through a set of the same pads in one race.

I was pretty damn surprised to hear that, considering we finished in the top 10 in our last two races and I've been known to dive bomb on occasion, so we're definitely not babying the brakes!

I talked to Porterfield and one of their biggest retailers (a racer at LPI). Neither of them acted too surprised when I told them the setup and the weight. They recommended to try the ST43 next. They said the pads would be overall similar, but with a bit more life. A bit more life doesn't sound like 24 hours to me.

Thanks for the recommendation on the RP2. I just called them and they quoted me $242 for a front set. He wasn't assuring us 24 hours by any means, but he thought would be about our best chance.

Serj & Sergio, we ran with you guys at Chicago. I would hope we could keep brakes under our car as well as you did with the Buick and SHO. We were about a  match for the buick straight line and the SHO killed us on the straights. I guess we wear on the brakes hard because all our passing is done under braking. Thats backwards for a f-body :lol

Here's a picture of the cooling setup.

Carbotech RP 2 (endurance) pad.  The T bird is in excess of 3000 lbs without driver and we have over 50% after about 30 hours of racing at Summit and Gingerman.

We did warp a set of rotors, but it was a red flag at the end of a straight that did us in.

If you mention Lemons, they give you a 7% discount and stickers to put on your car:)

If you have problems with overheating your brakes/calipers, you might want to think about installing some inline bilge fans on your brake cooling ducts. It's what the Sprint Cup guys do. Just search "bilge blower" on teh eBays and you'll find plenty of them.