Whats better? I was told Carbon Metallic so I bought those for my Integra but havent put them on yet.

 

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What are you using them for?

 

How about a daily driver with decent performance with very little dust, fade, and price? I've been meaning to ask this on TR for a while

 

Porterfield r4s carbon kevlar or ferrado 2500

 

So Im taking it Carbon Metallics are better then?

 

Not that easy - Hawk Blues are awesome performance pads - but they are so hard - and don;t work that great until they are hot - so make a crummy street pad.

Same thing with the good street pads like the Porterfield and Ferrado's Better street pad - but get them too hot on the track and they do not work as well as the Hawk Blues or Padgids.

I had Padgids on my car - awesome for the track but squealed like crazy on the street.

 

Different cars and different driving styles warrant different pads. What works well for Jeremy and his Porsche might not work well for me and my Viper. A full out race pad is streetable but will require some warm up time. I've spent thousands of dollars on brake pads, there is no one-size-fits-all.

Here's my opinion for track use.
EBC (green, red, yellow and blue) - little to no dust, horrible stopping power, don't last, very cheap.
Brakeman 3 - decent stopping power, cheap.
Pagid R14 - decent stopping power, won't last a full weekend.
Hawk Blues - stop like a mofo, last for a full track weekend.
PFC 01 - stop like a mofo, last for a full track weekend.

If you see #34 on the road I'm probably running PFC01 on the front and Hawk Blue on the rear. I don't often change them out just to drive up to Winghouse. But they are full race pads and I don't do any "spirited" driving until they are warmed up.

I usually run EBC green on my RT/10. I like the no-dust benefit, cheap, easy on the rotors, for the street and if I do any spirited driving in it I keep aware of the limited stopping power.

As I said, the is no one-size-fits-all.

 

ok i read everything and it just confused the shit out of me...what would yall recommend for my car? its just for regular driving and occasionally i drive hard with heavy braking..