28-12-2013, 09:53 PM
(28-12-2013, 03:13 PM)Alan_M Wrote: I had Greenstuff in my old 205 many moons ago and they were absolutely fine. No squeal nor excessive dust from them, something that you will get with Mintex 1144s and they're cheaper. I understand EBC changed compounds some years ago, hence the negative comments but are now better.
I now run Yellows on the 205 (4 pots) and that thing stops like it's hit a brick wall. Bit overkill for road though, the first few miles are a bit hairy with the pads cold!
Although, if your car is used on the road only, surely standard and good quality pads will be good enough? I've standard Pagids in my 306 and they're more than ample for the job.
Greens are recommended for low power (up 200bhp) cars and are perfect for road use, but track work or prolonged spirited road use will cause them problems just as it will OE spec pads, if you have suffered brake problems due to 'hard driving' then you need to uprate the pad if not then premium OE will suffice.
I've talked customers who'd never experienced pad related brake fade out of fitting uprated pads as they didn't need them and because the likelihood is overall performance would actually suffer due to inferior cold temp performance.
Brake pads are a compromise, the formulation of compounds able to handle serious high temps and generate a high coefficient of friction almost always suffer from various issues which can make them unsuitable for road use, cold temp bite, pad materiel transfer to the disc(which causes judder), excess noise and dust are all potential problems with uprated/race compounds.
So for I've been pleased with the Yellowstuff I'm currently using and I think they have pretty good cold bite especially when compared to 1144/55s and DS 2500/3000, OK not as good as a decent OE pad but they soon warm up and then work very well, whether these Yellows can cope with a trackday on semi slicks like Mintex/Ferodo do remains to be seen,
