What brand of brake pads?

[hitbychance]

Hey guys i had the z in for a safety inspection today and i was told my rear brake pads have 4 mm life left so i'm looking at what brand of pads i should get. Any ideas?

I wouldn't mind having brembo pads but where would i find brembo pads for the oem caliper not the brembo edition caliper.

[BusyBadger]

I have Racing Brake ET700 pads all the way around and they are amazing, but I don't think they make the 700 series for the non-Brembo caliper. That's ok though...you've still got plenty of other choices! For street only I'd probably got with ET500 and go with ET800 if you do any casual HPDE/track events. If you're a serious tracker I'd ditch the calipers you've got and step up to something more serious...but I'm sure you already knew that.

[AZhitman]

Brembo doesn't do pads to my knowledge.

For rears, if you;re not tracking the car, any quality semi-metallic pad will be fine.

I'm surprised the rear pads are that low - most rear pads last a LOT longer than the fronts (even though I change them all at the same time).

[BusyBadger]

Brembo doesn't do pads to my knowledge.

They make them, but oddly enough the Nissan models they make them for aren't the ones that you would imagine...

http://www.buybrakes.com/brembo/brake-p ... issan.html

...my guess is that Brembo would rather sell their GT setups to owners of the Z/G/GTR crowd.

[kuhan]

Look into Hawk HP Plus brake pads. I heard good things about them.

[RED_DET]

Hawk, project mu or Stoptech ....

[AZhitman]

I always ran Ferodo 2500DS on my G (with Brembos)... hated Hawks on that car, but love the Hawk HP on my C5.

[dasoupdude]

i bought oem..

[hitbychance]

all good options, thanks guys!

[sluggoZ]

For street pads...I've had the Hawk's HP pads, they always squeeked in the mornings.....now I have the ceramic Wilwood BP-10 Polymatrix Q pads & they are great!

[BusyBadger]

I've seen a couple of mentions of Hawk HP pads, but there are Hawk HP Street and the more aggressive HP Plus, posters should clarify which pad they're running/endorsing. I know a couple of Z/G drivers both with and without the Brembo calipers that have run both kinds of HPs and weren't very appy with them. They gave the usual reasons, no improvement over OEM (HP Street) or noise & dust (both kinds but much more common on the HP Plus pads. They are on the cheap side though, so you could always test them on your own and not hurt your wallet too much.

I've don't have any firsthand experience with Hawk on my Z, but I run Hawk HP Plus on my S13 along with some Powerslot rotors and it was an amazing (if dusty) upgrade over the OEM Nissan setup...on more than one occasion I've seen the panic look of someone in my rearview in city traffic.