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: Brake Pads for my Wilwood 11" kit?


CleanSE-R
05-28-2007, 12:29 PM
Any idea where to get them for the best price?? I was looking to get EBC Green Stuff as the pads did very well on both the track and street for me.

MaddMatt
05-28-2007, 02:02 PM
I was looking to get EBC Green Stuff as the pads did very well on both the track ....

For what? Touring laps?

CleanSE-R
05-28-2007, 11:52 PM
:squint: Like I said, they have worked very well for me on both applications.
Do you have Wilwoods?
Are you going to help me with an answer or just sit there and be a d1ck?

MaddMatt
05-29-2007, 08:45 AM
Go ahead and push my a$$hole button.....

I assume you have Dynalites, since that
is the most common and you didn't specify.

EBC products are HORRIBLE. If you liked them, they you'll LOVE something that is actually good, like maybe Hawk HP+, which can be purchased all day long for ~$55. They may be too dusty for you, so perhaps the less aggresive HPS is what you need?

eric96ser
05-29-2007, 09:02 AM
Go ahead and use EBC pads, if you don't like your car, and want to crash it. I don't see anything wrong with Matt's first post, and he is one of the guys that knows the most about brakes on this forum.

MaddMatt
05-29-2007, 09:16 AM
Way back, when I worked at "that place I will no longer say", we sold EBC Greens. We got reports that they lasted 30 days, to maybe as long as 6 months on 100% street driving, no track at all. Their "race" stuff (and I use that term loosely) was just flat out dangerous. Not only did it not stop well, you could vaporize a set in 15 laps. Like I did. So, they have a looooong way to go to repair their reputation with me, and a whole lot of people who got snookered into buying them based on fancy full page color ads with almost naked models in Super Street, Sport Compact, etc.

EBC = pure s#!t

Buy Hawk. It's made in the U.S.A....

CleanSE-R
05-29-2007, 09:16 PM
^^ Thanks Matt. That's the kind of response I was looking for.:biggthump

Eric, I know who Matt is I bought pads from him in a group deal a while back - his first response lacked, well, INFORMATION. I expected more from someone like him that's all.
I'm glad you were able to gain a lot of information from it... :rolleyes:

MaddMatt
05-30-2007, 08:42 AM
Also check out Porterfield R4-S pads. Not my favorite, but still significantly better than EBC.

I will take EBC seriously when they put someone on the podium at the SCCA Runoffs in one of the showroom stock or touring classes. Until then, they are essentially irrelevant.

98sr20ve
05-30-2007, 10:29 AM
Or you can just get a set of Pads from Wilwood. I think Matts choices of HP+ or HPS are better but Wilwood has a ton of good choices as well.

MaddMatt
05-30-2007, 10:34 AM
Good call Steve. Wilwood does have a bunch of choices. Too many IMO. Check out their compounds and see if anything fits what you are looking for.

McCoy
05-30-2007, 11:41 AM
I had good success with the Polymatrix "E" pad from Wilwood as a street pad, there fairly inexpensive also. They have good grip while cold and still hold up to autoX and wet track days were never an issue with these either. I never did an actual track day with these though... I'm sure with the 250whp and 225 hoosiers, I would have killed them in a few stops, the same for a pair of HP+ or R4-S pads :eek:.

The temp/Cf chart below shows the difference between the different wilwood pads, the 'E's look the best to me with an upper temp range of 1000F and with a lower price than the BP-10.

http://brakepads.wilwood.com/02-graphs/eqbp10.html

Wilwoods pad P/N's for the caliper you have... just search the P/N on google to find the best price, that's what I typically do.

http://www.wilwood.com/Products/001-Calipers/020-BDL/pads.gif

MaddMatt
05-30-2007, 12:00 PM
Yes, be careful of the Wilwood stuff. Chose wisely. Their street stuff is great on street, really not so much for the track. And vice versa. Don't really have a crossover like an HP+ that's acceptable in multiple environments.

All Dynalite pads are cheap. That is a 100% price driven market.

McCoy
05-30-2007, 12:05 PM
Yes, the dynalite pads are cheap... prices have gone up since I started purchasing them, but there still cheap.

As Matt has mentioned a few times and I'll echo it... get some good track pads. I had good success with the poly 'C' pads, they only lasted 3-4 dry days but only cost about $60 for a set. Consider that my coworker with his STI and stoptek brakes pays about $240 for a set of pads...

FarmBoss
05-30-2007, 01:23 PM
e b c = hit a tree