Well its time i upgraded my brake pads. I have been running standard pads in for the last 24 months. I was looking for a peformance pad, i don't mind changing them every year. I have std front calipers for a L bug. What have ppl used? what have you found good? I don't do any long distance racing on tracks, just noramlly sprints/hillclimb type events up to 5mins at the most, so long term high heat shouldn't be a problem.

BiX

I used Ferrodo pads in my 1302 with the Twin pin type pad (late 1302 callipers). These worked great. I never got to push them to their limit but I did a fast run over a mountain road we have here and had no troubles with fade etc.

Cheers
Jeremy

hey i would love some more info on this subject too, as all im using are the standard pads and shoes

not really anything available. I use cheap Brazilian and they work fine.
I also use a softer shoe on the rear drums. (Type 3)

]Yeh good subject,I am using pad called "Tan" which is a racing pad which needs a few laps to heat up using four spot Wilwood calipers which are a hard compound,rears i use bendix pads with AP calipers.These pads worked fine around 5laps Oran Pk.JVLRacing

well i need something thats up to power straight away. I thought their should be aperfomance pad out there that i could use with the standard calipers. Has any body found any difference withe compounds between pads that are all standard, eg bendix, and pagid, brazilian, etc?

i know bendix have different types of pads, but they are not recommended anymore, thats what i have been told by the local brake supplier.
if someone wanted to try bendix, i have used their performax range of pads on my falcon, but feel awful when they are cold.

i use frerrodo and they are great had mine for 4 years in the bug and they are still going

What you need to know,are they for racing or road use?any racing pad takes bedding in that includes of road.Getting performance out of any pad should use bigger brakes and not standard calipers.I have never herd nothing bad about bendix and maybe look at there range of pads.Its a hard choice,maybe look at your driving style also to see what pad suits you.goodluck JVLRacing

Well its 90% road 10% race, with short sprints, no more than 5min at a time, so teh brales have to work on the out lap!!! a brake upgrade is in the pipeline.

Hey Bix, I just spoke to a mate about his of road rally,he races a VR4Mitsubishi Galant Rally Art he has the same probs on choosing pads.He has been advised to go bigger brakes to solve problems with pad selection.JVLRacing

Try EBC, they make several very good compounds.

Bix, trust me I have tried them all and there is little dif between all the vw brand pads.(my sponsor is Ultimate Brake and Clutch Hornsby!)

Unfortunately there is nothing else available without changing caliper.

Have you had any probs ?

[Edited on 5-9-2004 by Craig Torrens]

Hello all

Surely Ferrodo make a pad for the standard T1 calliper? The ones I had worked brilliantly.

As for hard compound pads, all I can say is watch out!! If you use the car on the street it will stop like crap until you've heated the pads- a lot. This basically means constant heavy use eg mountain road, not traffic.

Have a look at the article here, especially the upgrade tests they did on the Honda.
http://www.grmotorsports.com/brakes.html 

Cheers
Jeremy

thanks craig that is what i was after somebody who has tried different ones. I was just interested, incase the ebc, were better than bendix, even though they are both the same "std pad". I have just redone all the cyclinders, just need some new pads, as its getting hard to get to full braking (eg be able to balance right on lock up) with the sticky tires. so a brake upgrade is the next thing, once the $$$ allow, but until then its std pads.