Brake pads Akebono or Ferodo

Swap out for ceramic pads (I've had good success with Akebono)

I like Akebono Ceramic pads with Zimmerman rotors on my E92, some feel that you lose a little bite but I like them and they pretty much eliminate brake dust.

Akebono are very good brake pads.

Ferodo ds2500 pads which are a high performance street pad which is trackable. I took it to the track today and had zero fade or brake issues. Then, I let my crazy fast instructor drive and rip the shit out of the car for 20 min straight. By the end of the round, the brakes were smoking. But still, no fade, and those weren’t even track only pads.

For a daily driven car, Akebono Proact are widely praised.

I've been using the DS1.11 this year, and they've been fantastic. I have about 12 or so track days on them and still have some life.

The AST pads are amazing and have incredible bite, especially when warmed up. The pedal pressure is very linear and predictable.

I like the DS3.12 on my GR86

Recently completed my HPDE and by the end of the day my stock pads were completely gone. Got my front rotors and all my pads replaced soon after that. I went for the Ferodo DS2500 pads. While bedding my pads, I noticed the brake feeling/bite is quite nice when braking at around 50-60% pressure, but once I tried emulating track style braking (i.e hitting brake pedal very hard) I noticed that my brake pedal was vibrating/rattling and also felt some sort of scraping was going on. This would happen even when hitting brakes hard from low speeds of ~30 mph. It's felt entirely on the front brakes. ABS did not engage, so I don't think the vibrations are from that. The obvious visible difference I see is the use of high temp brake lube from the shop.

Those Akebono pads suuuuuuuuuuck. Super clean, no brake dust, but just garbage performance.