I need to change my front brakes soon.. What are the best brake pads to use with the RX8?

What would provide the best stopping power and least brake fade for track and fast road driving use?

 

Scotchbrite General Purpose or Search Engineering Pad

 

Hawke or Dinostops

 

Brake pads are a matter of opinion. I personally love EBC pads and rotors for both street and track use. I would buy pads that will fit your application, you don't want pads designed to work at temps your brakes might not ever see.

 

Hey guys don't mean to thread jack but does any one know if hawk hps pads are good? Looking for street/ very light track use

 

Honestly the stock pads are quite good for the street. If you track with them they'll wear out quite fast. Basically hawk HPS for the street and maybe a few autocrosses or track days a year, anything more you'll want the hawk HP+ or a dedicated track set to swap out for track days. HP+ will be pretty noisy though...

 

Buy a laser thermometer, see at what temps your brakes are RIGHT after you enter the pitlane and start from there.

There's no point in comparing brake pads if you don't really know what you need.
HPS pads are ok for street use, junk at the track. HP+ pads start being noisy on the road and may be decent for autoX but it's easy to overheat them at the track.
EBC pads are as good as a turd generally speaking, Ferodo had a great amount of options.

You have to know what you need

 

Yeah I've seen some of the negative reviews but I have yet to have any of the issues people where complaining about in the past 5 years. Then again I seen lots of miata guys who love their yellow stuff pads. What's issues have you seen with EBC products? I just replaced my red stuff pads with the yellows and put on their 3GD sport rotors to replace my worn out OEMS.

 

EBC pads are car dependant. Heavy cars go through them like if they were made of butter.
They're good "cheap" sports pads but given the competition the only real advantage they may have is price.

 

Im in the same situation atm... been doing sooooo much reading however unsure what is going to work for my application...

Mine is daily driven however I do mountain runs probably 3-4x a week... track days maybe 3-4x a year also... Im on stock pads atm but I definitely go past their heat limitation on my mountain runs as they turn to mushy goop....

 

There isn't really a pad out there that is good at day to day driving and tracking for anything but a first timer

Best to buy a set of ceramic street pads....and swap in some track pads when you go to the track. Takes about 30 min to do all 4 and well worth it when they stick around on the track

Even though the Motorsports compounds are a lot more expensive...they last many multiples of the cheaper combo pads...and in very short order they pay for themselves

 

What no one called me out on suggesting dinostops?