Brake pad poll

Which pad to get?

  • Yellow

    Votes: 3 60.0%

  • Red

    Votes: 2 40.0%
  • Total voters
    5
  • Poll closed .
LaserSVT

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So I am about to replace my cracked front rotors and have to replace the pads too. I am really kinda torn between the EBC Yellow and Red pads.
My OEM Cobra pads didn't last 8000 miles but I drive it hard in the corners so I use my brakes much more then most of you here. While my Cobra brakes helped the car they were not the drastic change I thought they would be even though all my Cobras stopped pretty well. I figure the problem must be the crap stock pads.

So I cant decide if I want the absolute best stopping power or if I wanna give up a little brake force to have a longer lasting pad that makes less dust.


EBC Yellow: HD Street/Track pad. Superior stopping power but reduced life and they make more dust. $100

EBC Red: Street/lite track pad. Excellent stopping power, long life and low dust. They do take about 1000 miles to break in though. $80


I am gonna order them by noon tomorrow so they can hurry up and get here. My brakes are really getting bad, steering wheel goes nuts when I have to brake seudo hard.
 
I vote yellow
how much less could they really last if they have similar stopping power
I went with raybestos and Retail is like $230 on them im not impressed will not buy again
 
I'm in the same dilemma with my pads and rotors. I have Porterfield R4S pads on the car now, and keep warping my Powerslot rotors. I don't know if it's crappy rotors (which is what I'm inclined to think.) So am looking at trying different rotors and pads this time.
The R4S pads are amazing once they are warmed up and good cold, but if your really hard on them (sounds like we drive about the same, lol) they will dust on really hard braking (less than the stock Cobra pads though.)

Whom did you go with for rotors this time? Thanks
 
Thanks for the heads up on the Redstuff's NYC. I was considering them as an option, but not now it looks like :)
 
Uh, the Reds are now different. Actually all their pads are different now. A while back the company was bought out and the new guy changed everything to in house manufact. Beginning of 09 the new stuff started going out to stores and they were vastly superior to the old ones.
I did a crap load of reading last night about the pads and what people think of them who are using them.

Its made me want the Reds for better cold braking and less dust/noise plus I wont have yellow eyes on my calipers. :lol:
 
I read about that too Laser. A lot of the stuff I've been reading was from last year ('09) so I figured it had the newer compound in it? Maybe I was wrong but thought it was well after the new guys came in?
 
Gott read the stuff from people that recieved them after May or June last year. Not people that got them before that and wrote a report by June.

I just bit the bullet and bought a Red set. We will see what happens. I see EBC is standing behind their stuff big time now so if they fail I am sure they will swap them out no problem.
 
93' Blue on blue said:
By who? Says on their site that EBC is still owned by it's founder:

http://www.ebcbrakes.com/corporate.shtml
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Sorry, I had missunderstood some posting on an Evo/Eclipse forum and the comments in a couple Youtube vids. What it was (apparently) is they bought out a manufaturing division and instead of having one company make their backing material and another company (Brembo) make their rotors they now make them all now. Also the formula of the Red pads and Yellow pads was changed around the same time they added the Blue full race pads to their lineup.
They increased their longevity and sheer strength.

I am sure they will be fine, better then the OEM crap I had. I will give an honest writeup after install and update it after break in.
 
Ah, OK. Glue failing and pads coming off would have been a problem they would have needed to fix fast, so hopefully the news ones will be fine.
 
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