By God. These things are effing awesome. Ok, so they are my first set of proper pads, but the power and shortening of the braking zone (halved I reckon), well, it gave me a bit of a fright the first time. I'm sure there are other choices, but for me these work well on track and road for the 1 series. My missus remarked that she has to apply less effort to stop; which, by the way, is a good thing as it transpires.
Actually, scrap that last comment Marco. Just did a 3hr trip across London and they did squeal a bit. Never get warm on a run like that. They were fine after Bedford, seem to like getting heat into them,
Yes we make them for pretty much any car, get in touch if you need more details and pricing, also I must point out our XP8 compound is a fastroad/trackday compound where it works very well, however it is quite dusty and also can squeal if doing a lot of slow/gentle road use so if this is any issue it might not be the compound for you, if you want to stop thought its superb
Actually, scrap that last comment Marco. Just did a 3hr trip across London and they did squeal a bit. Never get warm on a run like that. They were fine after Bedford, seem to like getting heat into them,
Yes they can get quite noisy in town as they are not getting the heat so glaze up which causes the noise, few hard brakes once you get chance to open car up though usually quieten things down
Actually, scrap that last comment Marco. Just did a 3hr trip across London and they did squeal a bit. Never get warm on a run like that. They were fine after Bedford, seem to like getting heat into them,
Yes they can get quite noisy in town as they are not getting the heat so glaze up which causes the noise, few hard brakes once you get chance to open car up though usually quieten things down
Excellent hope they havent turned you into a hooligan charging everywhere and leaving your braking as late as possible at every opportunity to see if it will stop ...i can assure you the pads will but tyres are the limiting factor
Excellent hope they havent turned you into a hooligan charging everywhere and leaving your braking as late as possible at every opportunity to see if it will stop ...i can assure you the pads will but tyres are the limiting factor
Good aye!! Have you done the bedding in yet? Did mine at Bedford, got them smoking and induced some long pedal action from the fluid, but they were mental after the cool down. I think I might have over done it a bit, though I did also have new discs.
Jesus really? I went out to the a3 at midnight and couldn't find room!! Decided better to lose an hour of track time instead of having someone ram me up the backside!!
Good aye!! Have you done the bedding in yet? Did mine at Bedford, got them smoking and induced some long pedal action from the fluid, but they were mental after the cool down. I think I might have over done it a bit, though I did also have new discs.
Off topic but... I've currently been running EBC bluestuff in my MX5 Supercup car but they've changed the compound, not to my liking, ill have to give you a ring to discuss as I need to order some new pads before Donington Park round in a few weeks
Off topic but... I've currently been running EBC bluestuff in my MX5 Supercup car but they've changed the compound, not to my liking, ill have to give you a ring to discuss as I need to order some new pads before Donington Park round in a few weeks
Off topic but... I've currently been running EBC bluestuff in my MX5 Supercup car but they've changed the compound, not to my liking, ill have to give you a ring to discuss as I need to order some new pads before Donington Park round in a few weeks
My MX5 mk3 track car came with rodders pads in it. Dont know if you have used them or not? Just looking for a common bench mark. They were wearing fast. Ian did me a full set of XP8s. They were even better performing than rodders pads, and they were good. But more to the point they wore a lot better, I did over 6 track days over 250 miles a day, and they weren't even half worn then I sold it. I would defiantly give them ago!
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