Brake pads EBC or POWER STOP

These cheap drilled / slotted rotor and pads set can be strangely good at times. I got a set for my dad's 2003 Santa Fe in 2016, and they're still going strong and smooth after 50k miles.

I have the exact same setup on my 91 miata. Same bundle with pads and all. I paid around that price and I've had them on for 2 months and love them. Huge difference over my stock setup. Replaced calipers at the same time and everything is smooth with no weird noises.

I got these for my accord v6 and it works great it a little on the loud side tho but other then that I like them

I put these on my 1999 Acura CL, about 6 or more years ago. Only complaints are lots of brake dust to clean off the rims. Stopping power has been good, and not performance issues I was surprised how cheap it was and just went for it. Total miles may be 40k ish.

Had them on an optima, they look good and have decent bite when breaking

I currently have the Z26's on my daily driver Integra SiR. They stop good on the road and look nice. I'd honestly recommend them for daily use.

I bought these for my 2018 Honda Pilot Touring. They are normally over $500 but they had a sale for like $327.99 for a full set. I'm very happy with them.

I have this setup on my 04 Acura TL base and they work great!

Have had EBC Red stuff, Yellow stuff and Blue stuff. My impressions of them are below:

Red stuff - slightly better initial bite than an OEM pad, the same goes for performance at higher temps, however on track they didn’t last more than a couple of laps. Certainly more of a daily/fast road pad.

Yellow stuff - initial bite ever so slightly lesser than the red stuff, probably inline with OEM. However they put up with more abuse at higher temps and rarely gave much brake fade. Bit dustier, would say fast road/occasional track pad.

Blue stuff - initial bite worse than OEM, after a few hard stomps you can feel them waking up. Stand up to track abuse very well. After multiple fast laps on track, I felt it was the discs that were getting too hot, so these pads highlighted I needed brake cooling to keep going. Squeak at low speeds, dusty.

To answer your question, imo there isn’t a situation where blues are more ‘streetable’ than reds, I’d swap them out for reds and if you can, keep blues for the track ????

HTH

I personally had a terrible time with EBC brakes especially the yellow stuff. A month of daily driving and one track day had the pads so low they actually slipped out of the calipers while I was driving, customer support swore up and down I installed them wrong and it’s my fault. I put project mu hybrid pads on next and I’ve been out on 6 different tracks days and a year of driving and there is still 5mm of pad life left.