Cant stand the brake dust ANYOMORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: Cant stand the brake dust ANYOMORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I HAVE THE BREMBOS AND GET THE SAME AMOUNT OF DUST ON THE FRONT AND THE BACK. BY THE WAY, YOU SHOULD NEVER CHANGE JUST THE FRONTS OR THE BACKS WHEN YOU ARE SWITCHING BRAKE COMPANIES, AND ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU ARE ALTOGETHER CHANGING TO A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT MATERIAL PAD. YOUR BRAKES WILL WEAR UNEVENLY. I NEED AXIS METAL MATRIX PADS FOR THE FRONT AND THE REAAAAAAAAR AS WELL! WHO THE HELL JUST WANTS TWO CLEAN WHEELS. THAT WOULD MAKE ME MORE CRAZY.......
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Re: Cant stand the brake dust ANYOMORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The OEM pads on the auto don't create dust problems in the rear. And what the heck difference does it make when you replace the front and back seperately? You said it will cause uneven wear???? I hate to tell you, but your front brakes will wear out WAY FASTER than the rears anyway. If you replace you rears everytime you replace your fronts, you are throwing money down the drain. And with those expensive as hell Brembo pads, I bet you'll be stoping that real quick.
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Re: Cant stand the brake dust ANYOMORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
First, YOU DON'T HAVE TO YELL. When you post in all caps, it is taken as yelling. All cars are proportioned for more front brake bias than rear. This is why with only a very few exceptions(Porsche Turbos), most cars have smaller rear brakes. Your brakes are never going to wear exactly even front and rear. On both my Miata and Maxima, my front brakes wear over twice as fast as the rears. I run the same pads(Axxis Deluxe) on both ends and I've had to replace the front brake pads twice and the rears have yet to be replaced. Using different compounds front and rear is actually an old racers trick to adjust brake bias when you can't touch proportioning by the rules. Since most of your braking power is in the front of your car you chould concentrate on the front brakes more than the rear.
I usually stick to Axxis Deluxe pads if I can get them. If not, Axxis Ultimate Ceramics or Hawk Blues are good choices. I had horrible experiences with Axxis Metal Masters on my Maxima. The brake below 30 mph was horrible. They had an annoying metallic scraping noise when applied and dusted badly. They also seemed to take a long time to heat up to work properly. They went into the garbage after only a couple hundred miles. They aren't the worst pads though. The worst pads are Performance Friction Carbon Metallics. The Stillen Metallics I have on my SVO are pretty bad too. I am switching to Hawk Blues on that car. The Axxis Deluxes on the other hand have no dust, work good at all temps and are very quiet. I would use them on the SVO, but they are not available. In the 3 years I autocrossed the Miata, the Deluxes were the best autocrossing pad of the 7 sets I tried...and yes, they are very cheap(BRAKECO.COM). Even though they don't dust, they do wear quickly. They only real downside is that the temp is light if your are doing track events. While they are perfect for autocrossing, after about 15 minutes on the track driving at the limits; I did get some fading. So, I would not recommend them as a road race pad; but they are the best street,auto-X pad.
04' G35 Coupe(finally in the garage)
6-sp Diamond Graphite/Willow w/Premium
I usually stick to Axxis Deluxe pads if I can get them. If not, Axxis Ultimate Ceramics or Hawk Blues are good choices. I had horrible experiences with Axxis Metal Masters on my Maxima. The brake below 30 mph was horrible. They had an annoying metallic scraping noise when applied and dusted badly. They also seemed to take a long time to heat up to work properly. They went into the garbage after only a couple hundred miles. They aren't the worst pads though. The worst pads are Performance Friction Carbon Metallics. The Stillen Metallics I have on my SVO are pretty bad too. I am switching to Hawk Blues on that car. The Axxis Deluxes on the other hand have no dust, work good at all temps and are very quiet. I would use them on the SVO, but they are not available. In the 3 years I autocrossed the Miata, the Deluxes were the best autocrossing pad of the 7 sets I tried...and yes, they are very cheap(BRAKECO.COM). Even though they don't dust, they do wear quickly. They only real downside is that the temp is light if your are doing track events. While they are perfect for autocrossing, after about 15 minutes on the track driving at the limits; I did get some fading. So, I would not recommend them as a road race pad; but they are the best street,auto-X pad.
04' G35 Coupe(finally in the garage)
6-sp Diamond Graphite/Willow w/Premium
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