I've been happy with Porterfield R4S, I've been using them on my 93 dd for nearly 10 years/100k, still on the original factory rotors, 155k total mileage on the car. They don't dust overly bad. I have probably 10 or so track days in addition to the street miles. They're on my 94 FM2 also, but only have 15k or so street miles on them.
FM used to sell them, not sure if they still do, but that qualifies them as good enough to put on a miata. ----- Original Message ----- From: B Johnson To: [email protected] ; [email protected] Cc: [email protected] ; [email protected] Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2011 11:44 AM Subject: RE: Which hawk pads? hi list, back onto my brakes, as the time is coming. this is an effort to marginally improve the street braking experience ok i am getting close to doing my brakes/rotors/ and possibly caliper(s) if I find one is dragging (other post) on the 92 auto DD the frustrating thing is that I would like better braking than oem or replacement pads. SOME listers have said the hawk street pads are the ticket, others say they are crappy feeling. is there a pad that improves the braking from oem, but is durable for daily use? also, are there rotors better than generic replacement ones from autozone or whatever? (resist warping) finally, if anyone has upgraded their NA brakes, and has good rotors or caplipers I would be interested. thanks! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 16:09:09 -0500 Subject: Re: Which hawk pads? From: [email protected] To: [email protected] CC: [email protected]; [email protected] Perhaps the issue is changing pad compounds on existing rotors? There is supposedly a film on a rotor that needs to be compatible with the pad compound. (I am not entirely convinced of this.) I have replaced pads with HPS for a lot of people, and then PROPERLY bed them. They then grip with excellent feel. I have never had a disappointed customer yet. Of course, they are generally upgrading from stock (or worse) pads. Ken Bogart ----------------------------------------------------- 96 Montego Blue FFS Coldside (His) 97 Black & Tan (Hers) 90 Crystal White (sons) ------------------------------------------------------ http://www.miatacare.com http://www.cincimiata.com http://www.bcchallenger.org MiataMail.com list owner On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 3:58 PM, bvl <[email protected]> wrote: On 12/16/10 12:20 PM, Robert M wrote: When I was running my FMII on the track I used HP+. They were dusty, noisy, spendy, and had great initial bite and easily modulated friction. Once I stopped going to the track I switched to HPS. They were quiet, clean, and may as well have been made of wood. Terrible feel- I really hated them. Weird that I had such a bad experience contrary to everyone else; I've no explanation for this. I don't think you are alone. Though not the same car, I went from HP+ to HPS on the subaru and the feel of the HPS is very soft in comparison. The initial bite is not there with a dead feeling post switching. Its been years since I had stock pads on the WRX, but I gather the HPS feels similar or a tad better then OEM. Reason for changing: HP+ is a high friction pad, plenty of dust (I do clean the car, but its heavy dust that does not like to be washed away easily), and the accelerated rotor wear I observed which for a street only car seemed a bit over the top. - b _______________________________________________ Miatapower mailing list [email protected] http://list.miatapower.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/miatapower _______________________________________________ Miatapower mailing list [email protected] http://list.miatapower.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/miatapower ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Miatapower mailing list [email protected] http://list.miatapower.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/miatapower
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