Ceramic pads?
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Zack
Turbo Marauder
Had I known there were very few pad option available for the Wildwoods, I wouldnt have bought them.
Im still displeased with the braking.
Ive had the 20's and the 10's on my car. Both stopped the same, but the 10's produce little to no dust.
Ive yet to try the Hawks.
Ive bled the system til I was Blue in the face trying to get a better pedal and stopping power to no avail.
Im still displeased with the braking.
Ive had the 20's and the 10's on my car. Both stopped the same, but the 10's produce little to no dust.
Ive yet to try the Hawks.
Ive bled the system til I was Blue in the face trying to get a better pedal and stopping power to no avail.
fastblackmerc
Everything Marauder, LEDs & HI
I've had ZERO (0) problems with my Wilwoods. A little dusty for my taste but it stops on a dime and gives $.09 change.
Zack
Turbo Marauder
burt ragio
Junior Member
Zack - Help me understand how a for piston caliper by Baer can out perform the six piston wilwood ?
I'm just disappointed that Zack feels that way. The combo here is the same as found on both 13" my Impala kit, LX platform, all the 13" Mustang kits and all the 13" Vette kits aside from rotor width which is limited by our wheel fit and has no impact on brake torque- just heat saturation which I'm sure he's not experiencing.
The math of it all works out as roughly 4sq" of piston on 13" of rotor. As I said; the same as many of the mass produced kits. The total area of the BSL6 is less than the oem caliper and when combined with the larger rotor, narrower pad will require a small increase in foot effort to achieve the same final tq value. The pedal will be immediately be firmer than stock and on any similar sized caliper.
Can't speak for the Bears but if the pistons are larger they will be more "grabby" on a larger rotor and require less leg input. Add to that the unknown of the pad make ups and you can make or break about 5% rotor tq pretty quickly. What you won't get no matter is hight tq without either the need for greater leg muscle or higher Cf pad. Looking for a pad with low noise and low dust combined with greater bite doesn't exist. Tossing in a set of PolyD pads will wake it up like nobody's business. I also have one old set of HPS kicking around here if someone would like them for deal.
The math of it all works out as roughly 4sq" of piston on 13" of rotor. As I said; the same as many of the mass produced kits. The total area of the BSL6 is less than the oem caliper and when combined with the larger rotor, narrower pad will require a small increase in foot effort to achieve the same final tq value. The pedal will be immediately be firmer than stock and on any similar sized caliper.
Can't speak for the Bears but if the pistons are larger they will be more "grabby" on a larger rotor and require less leg input. Add to that the unknown of the pad make ups and you can make or break about 5% rotor tq pretty quickly. What you won't get no matter is hight tq without either the need for greater leg muscle or higher Cf pad. Looking for a pad with low noise and low dust combined with greater bite doesn't exist. Tossing in a set of PolyD pads will wake it up like nobody's business. I also have one old set of HPS kicking around here if someone would like them for deal.
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I don't have "big brakes", but the Hawk HPS and Brembo OEMs provide significantly better performance over my stock setup. Several friends run the Hawk HP+ and are quite pleased with them also.
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burt ragio
Junior Member
Red - Are those Hawk pads also known as the performance pads ferro-carbon ?
The HPS and HP+ use ferro-carbon compounds.