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Originally Posted by richard612
I keep seeing "stock pads suck" appear over and over again in this thread. Guys, there's a reason why the stock pads aren't meeting some of your needs. You can't please everyone all of the time -- You can only hope to meet the needs of the largest audience.
Stocks pads must: - Not make noise
- Not eat the customer's rotors
- Not make noise
- Not throw off crazy amounts of dust
- Not make noise
- Not have corrosive dust
- Not make noise
- Work fine at all normal temperatures
- Not make noise
- Provide a good service life
- Not make noise
- Provide a reasonable friction coefficient (acceptably low pedal effort)
Did I mention that North American drivers will not tolerate ANY noise from their car's braking systems? If your brake temps exceed the capability of the stock pads, call a spade a spade and admit that you're on a racetrack (or are likely a crazy nutjob driver) and need a higher temp pad. Just expect some compromises in the above items. |
You left out the most imoportant criteria: they must 'stop damn well, every damn time' no matter how fast or how often. All the rest are merely window dressing.