Brake Pads

[Geezabloke]

Hi, Im thinkin of fitting Green Stuff fast road pads to front and rear of car (UK TT) are these wothwhile over standard or am i better off buying another make?

[tDR]

Toyota original pads are far superior from what I hear......

[Willson]

I believe Chris Wilson (on this site) is the man for uprated brake pads.

[Alex]

Originally posted by Geezabloke
Hi, Im thinkin of fitting Green Stuff fast road pads to front and rear of car (UK TT) are these wothwhile over standard or am i better off buying another make?

They are great as flamer kits go.... if you get my jist!

[Adam W]

Pile of crap. Had em on my Mk3, lasted about three months of distinctly moderate driving. I'd say either go for Toyota pads or the real top notch (and big money) ones that CW sells.

[Geezabloke]

Cheers for advice guys

[Mid'lifecry'sis]

:)

Hey just a newbie but...


I have J spec TT and the callipers / pads which ran on Toyota pads were crap – absolutely no real stopping power on the motor.

I am now running green stuff / may move to red or is it blue I forget ! J spec callipers I understand are Lexus 200/400 or 300 or somin so... yes green stuff a good product for J spec motors for those reading the thread.

UK spec callipers I hear are a word apart and therefore given the comment here don’t appear to enjoy green...!

[Martin F]

Yep and Jap spec calipers are nearly the same as MKIII calipers and as Adam stated above Green Stuff pads in them are crap.

The consensus is that the best budget pads tend to be stock Toyota items.

[Need4Speed]

I have Porterfield pads all round from Whifbitz. The Pads are R4 (race) compound, on UK front and J rear. They're noisy and dusty but you can buy more conventional compounds. I used to have EBC Green on std. J-spec, they were the worst disc brakes I've ever met.

[B3any]

I've got the full Race Porterfields and they are a bit sqeauky, but make a hell of a difference over stock,
AFter taking the car to a track day recently at Donington they did the job with no fade at all.:)

[outatime]

Originally posted by gwillson75
I believe Chris Wilson (on this site) is the man for uprated brake pads.

I've got Chris Wilsons intermediate pads, they make a big difference compared to stock and don't squeel. I heard the Porterfield ones arent exactly disk friendly...

Also, I just had some Stainless Steel Brake hoses fitted - the pedal is way firmer now.

[Need4Speed]

I can confirm the Porterfield R4 poads do not fade, but the will heat the discs up to warp factor 1. Absolutely no problem on the road, but the discs do start to shake after a few hard track laps.

[wesmi01]

Im must be mad,

As I prefer the Green stuff pads over the CW ones as me wheels now stay clean and shiney!!!

It would appear I rate posing over stopping, oops.

Won't comment on stopping power as I tend to not give them to mush stick so i don't start melting things.

I have jap brakes!!!!

[Mid'lifecry'sis]

Sounds like I need to change - if you are all right in that Gren is shite for jap spec breaks then increased stopping from alternatives must be the dogs.

PS: Green over my standard toyota is still a fact though.... perhaps my toyota ones were just shag'''ged?

:looney:

[wesmi01]

I find the jap brakes ok, till you strat doing 90+ obviously they were never desighned for lots of speed, so just use them with that in mind. Like me 178 lepton run, I made sure there was no planes on the air field what so ever!!!!

[Need4Speed]

My experience of j-spec brakes is two hard stops from around 100 and they disappear completely.

[Mid'lifecry'sis]

160 and I bailed out! quick to 140 and then slows a tad.... to 160.... mind you she has 74 000 miles on a 93!

watch the paint peel!

:cool:

[Dragonball]

Re Green Stuffs / Red Stuffs

If I may offer a small intercession at this juncture

DO NOT GO FOR REDSTUFFS!

Hope you dont mind me shouting - they are bloody useless on Jap and others

I now have ferrodo's on my 6 pot HiSpecs (which fiT under all alloys just about) tp great effect

Normal transmission resumed

Paul:cool:

[ad500]

I was advised to put green stuff on the front and red stuff on the rear by a certain performance shop, which i did.

Leon noticed this when the car was with him recently and said that this was a pretty cr#p idea and that some people just don't know what their talking about when they give advice.

Apparantly for everyday driving the toyota standard pads are up to the job and are better than the EBC green.

The aluminium brake hoses that i put on at the same time were worth it though, much firmer peddle.

[tango]

Hi guys,
I just been given a set of the red stuff pads for my supre TT, I dont think they are the ceramic type, are they any good at all?

If not I dont think I borther put them on.
any one make me ao offer for them.

cheers

[imi]

Apart from the CW pads....what other makes can one recommend?

[Grazer]

Thread ressurection of the month award :eek: :D

I've got CW fast road pads - they work well :thumbs:

[tango]

Hi guys, are CW pads noisy, how much arethey?
cheers

[CJ]

Other pads you may want to consider are Hawk and Porterfiields

[hadyn]

how much are toyota's pads for the j-spec set up?