Brake pads EBC or TRW

Fresh front brakes, Zimmerman blanks with EBC Bluestuff, hopefully these do better than the yellows. Pedal feel with the Endless fluid was consistent as well.

I ran EBC Redstuff on my 09 R56 and they were great. Very nice sporty braking but it wasn't overly aggressive and the noise and dust was pretty low. Made for a great daily driver with better than stock braking.

I run yellow stuffs on my F55 S. It’s a daily but I also canyon carve. Compared to OEM, I’m extremely happy with the performance and brake feel.

If you are looking for high performance, I can vouch for EBC Yellowstuff and Bluestuff NDX. Yellowstuff is a good high performance street pad. no noise even in cold including down to -29 deg C. There is some squeal if the car has sat in the rain the first time you touch the brake pedal but its quiet after. the pads have really strong bite and sustain heat fairly well but wear down rather quickly if you are doing track days. mine lasted 20,000 kms including 6 track days and 4 autoX events. under road driving conditions only, they last much longer. If you want something to last longer and be better suited for track but still be streetable, Bluestuff NDX will do that. they have similar bite to Yellowstuff but sustain higher temperatures and last longer.

I like EBC greenstuff. No louder than stock, good cold bite, and a little better heat resistance. Good for autocross and street, but they won't hold up on the track. And they don't produce a huge amount of dust, though it is more than oem.

I have Akebono on my 330 and TRW Ultra TXC1171 on my 328, I have to say the TRWs have excellent bite and the brake dust is minimal as well.

EBC Reds. I would check the rotors though, because if your pads are thin there’s a very good chance the rotors will need replacing too. In which case you may as well go Zimmerman rotors and EBC reds.

Closing the loop (sorry this is a bit long): the EBC Bluestuffs (eventually) performed super well for me at the HPDE this past weekend. I did have some noticeable shudder - but never any fade - develop after several laps during my Saturday morning sessions, but this went away as the brakes cooled and would not immediately be present at the begining of the following session, only reappearing once things got good and hot. I could not replicate it on the road during the Saturday lunch lull nor overnight. On Sunday the shudder was back only slightly during the morning's first session but by the second session had completely disappeared. After talking it through with several others that I trust, I'm content to chalk the shudder up to deposits on the rotors/not having changed nor prepped the rotors before installing the new pads. I'll not do it that way again. They definitely dust like crazy, but they were both responsive and predictible on track while being super well behaved on the street (so much so that I may just run them all the time). Even in my last session of the weekend, 17 laps of Summit Point main, I never had any doubt whatsoever about them performing for me heading into turn one. That sentence is about as good a review as I could give.

I've used them on track in NASA HPDE3 group. They are pretty much equivalent to the Hawk HP+, for a lighter weight car they are fine for track days but for a heavy car you will need a more race oriented pad.

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