What I meant was that if you for say put a hot track pad with a high friction coefficient in the front only and put a street pad in the rear or leave it stock which has a much lower friction coefficient the balance of braking power will shift more to the front. The Bias of your brakes will be off and the Yaw control system can't adapt to this so it could be thrown off.

Also by having even two different types of pads in the car can mess with the brake bias because some pads have better cold bite then others and if you rear pads bite faster then your front pads you could though the cars balance off and the yaw control will try to correct it which could make your car difficult to control. Most people that track regularly will experiment with different pads to come up with a system that works best for them.

For a street car sticking with the same pads front and rear is best, using a higher performance pad then stock is safe and will not mess up the yaw control because most street pads are not hot enough to throw the yaw control out of its operational range. Every system has adaptability because they know that people will put non-OE pads in there car for increase performance. You can though mild performance pads in the front but never do it only in the rear. Magic Pads, Hawk HPS, Project Mu NS are mild enough to run with stock rear pads but more performance oriented pads like Axxis Ultimates, Hawk HPS, Ferodo DS2500 are going to through your bias off and while it may not effect you driving around town, taking a turn at double the suggested speed on a mountain pass where the yaw control will start to take over is not the place you want find out.

 

Nice explanation!

 

Anybody running the magic pads out there. Would like to get rid of some of the brake dust but dont want to sacrifice on breaking performance.

 

wow, great thread. i have 20k miles and i'm so sick and tired of cleaning my rims. i cleaned them saturday and already today there's some brake dust on the wheels. ridiculous.

 

another opinion on brake pads ?

 

We'll have an EVO X Specific Magic Pads in the near future. No date set but we are working on it. We also have a new and improved Pad Adapter that no longer has squeaking problems for those on the street and is much more resilient to heat for those using them at the track.

 

I have one of these http://www.calcarduster.com/microFiberWheel.asp

I use it every couple of days and it does a great job of removing the brake dust between full cleanings.

 

i usually just spend the 30-40 minutes when i wash the car to give the wheels a good clean. When I have the rims off of the car to rotate the tires I clean the inside as well to keep them from getting too gunked up. The dusting sucks but it comes with the territory of a performance car and stock pads.

 

Kragen sells this part.

$59

 

EDIT: link removed see post below

If your looking for inventory for "Satisfied" pads, just follow the link and input your zip.

Kragen Satisfied Ceramic Pads

 

Just picked up my brake pads from Checkers last night, even got 10% off for some reason. Won't install them until Friday or through the weekend.

***EIDT***
Will be installing pads tomorrow after work.

 

Check out Eagle One - Keep Clean. After you wash your wheels put a layer of it on your rims and it will cut down on the dust that sticks by like 50-70% (anecdotal evidence from my experience with it).

 

Do not purchase the Satisfied brake pads from Checkers or Kragen. It shows part# PR866C but this is not the correct part. Not even close. The EVO has big rectangular pads, not rounded, I never even thought about that. I returned the pads that I had purchased.

 

I almost ruined my rotors at the track by not bedding in my ST43 pads properly prior to my last trip to a road course, lesson learned. Lucky for me I was able to bring them back from the dead with a good round of 60 grit sand paper and a fresh set of Magic pads. I bedded in the Magic pads and ended up with slightly uneven stopping at low speeds on the first day but no high speed shake. A few days later they are almost 100% smooth now and there is a good even smear of brake pad material on the rotors.

They aren't as grippy as the track pads of course but they took repeated stops very well and didn't overheat when bedding them in. They are an excellent street pad so far that beat out the stock pads for friction yet produce almost no dust in comparison. I'll do a full review on them once I get some twisting road braking under my belt with them but so far they are very promising! Low dust, squeal free, better than stock braking power = nice street pad.

 

i'm going to get some Endless SS-H. they look to be the best ticket for low brake dust and max street performance. probably match it with some slotted rotors too.