I think it probably depends on how much performance is being sacrificed. I think if you ask people if they are willing to sacrifice some amount of performance for cleaner wheels they would say yes because the fact is most of us don't need top of the line braking performance on our daily driver. Of course at some point it begins to be a safety issue and if that was the case I would opt for the dirty wheels. On my truck I thought about switching to ceramics to completely get rid of the dust, but read mixed reviews on them. I decided to go with a semi-metallic pad that had a good mixture of performance and low dust.

 

i <3 my project mu ns pads

great cold braking, and no dust at all

 

You have a brembo setup though, which uses a larger rotor and caliper, and less aggressive pads already. This is significantly different than the nonbrembo 03-04 setup which relies on very aggressive pads and rotors to achieve good stopping performance.

 

still, my OEM brembo pads made a TON of dust

 

Typically pads that dust more offer better braking performance.

It's the trade-off you gotta make.

Like said previously, infiniti ditched the aggressive pad compound, but had to increase the brake rotor diameter and add a dual piston caliper just to equal it. The rotors on the 05+ are very close to Brembo rotor diameter

 

I've found the Hawk HPS pads ideal. Low dusting and no compromise with braking, even when cold.

 

i saw on the hawk hps pads that they have two different thicknesses... 0.564 and 0.547 for the front and they have one thinkness for the rear which is 0.559. What thickness should i get for the front? and what is the purpose for the different thicknesses

 

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