VW Brake pad options?

I'm running a MK1 Rabbit with larger front brakes off a 16V. Right now it has Minex pads which were on it when I bought it, I ran a hillclimb this weekend and really feel like upgrading the pads before Rally NY next week. Anyone have suggestions on a good pad to go with? Right now I'm looking at EBC "Green Stuff" or "Yellow Stuff" and Hawk "blue".

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we had great performace with the Porterfield R4 compound

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I'm a big EBC fan.....yellows (or reds) for sure, but definitely not greens. the yellows are very affordable and actually very usable on the street too.

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Tom where are you buying them from?

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I've been using Ferodo DS2500's with good success. They take a beating and hardly wear at all. Brakes work good. I bought them from some internet brake store, it was like $180 for pads for all four wheels.

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> I've been using Ferodo DS2500's with good success.
> They take a beating and hardly wear at all. Brakes
> work good. I bought them from some internet brake
> store, it was like $180 for pads for all four
> wheels.

Did they supply any extra rear beams? Or any front discs to use the hat ID measurement off of.
They usually do include those so if you have extras, bring 'em on!
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autopartswarehouse has them for 20% today-only

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(sorry for the big link, not sure what's going on there)


and if you go through ebates.com, you get another 5% off...
http://www.ebates.com/rf.do?referrerid=goOeorJLffLjCm1v0%2Bvdng%3D%3D


25% off, that's pretty cheap.

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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 06/15/2009 05:43PM by Jon Burke.

I second the Porterfield suggestion. R4s or R4 compund will work fine...


I had such bad experiences with EBC stuff when they came out that I wouldn't run them on ANY car if they gave them away for free...

Tried them on my bicycle too with EXTREMELY poor results...

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I too run the Porterfield R4 and have had no issues with it. I did like Paul's setup at RTN this year. He was running a performance friction setup.

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rally gods would turn in their graves if they ever knew Lada's were now part of EU rallying!!!

Axxis Ultimate seemed to work okay on our car at RTN. (ceramic)

the Hawk brake pads we ran at RNY caused sparks to shoot out the wheels. our wheels now have a huge amount of "rotor material" heat welded to them. they look aweful. dem wheels are shot! and the brand new rotors are worn down to the point that there is a penny or paperclip thickness missing from them. dem rotors are shot!

...the metallic Hawk pads did stop like hell tho, i had to keep telling the driver to brake late because he was braking early and almost comming to a stop.

I got my r4's from direct from porterfield....there is a 20% discount for NASA members...still expensive though...I think about $200 or so for front and rear pads

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Tom B Wrote:
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> I got my r4's from direct from
> porterfield....there is a 20% discount for NASA
> members...still expensive though...I think about
> $200 or so for front and rear pads


That's Front AND rear???

That's not that bad.>
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is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time.

Yeah front and rear, compared to $40 street pads I was pissed about costs, but if I can save money in one spot I get to race more, so I tend to be a bit thrifty

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I get all my brake pads from livermoreperformance.com

To get R4's for front/rear it's $146/$59. You don't get a NASA/SCCA discount from their prices, they're pretty damn cheap by themselves.

I also had ordered a set of R4e compound pads and shoes (yes shoes) for my 24 hours of LeMons race car.

I've bought my track pads for my STI (Pagid Yellow RS 19) and the Porterfield R4S pads for street pads when I downgraded the STI brakes to WRX 4/2 pots. Although I HATE the R4s on my STI. The damn things squeal like pigs under heavy braking which is annoying as hell on the street. Look up my autox videos on youtube under the user billyelliotx to hear it in my autocross videos.

On the VW GTI I run Hawk HP-10's that I got through tirerack. They leave a terrible coating that rusts just about everything in your wheel area (rotor/caliper/strut/wheels) but they do stop the car and do hold up to the heat of rallying (glowing rotors were reported being seen on spectator point at Passmore during LSPR). I'd rather not use them again just for the corrosive rust layer it puts on everything. But I've ran LSPR and Snow*Drift and the pads are in good shape. Will probably need new rotors after NEFR though.

FWIW, I've faded/glazed EBC Greens autocrossing in the Mini (very light car) so badly it was frightening to drive home. They came back to life after I roughed up the surface of the pads with an angle grinder but I wouldn't use them in anger -- ever.

t

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