Brake pads

[Matt McCrary]

I've heard really good things about a company that started up just a couple
years ago, they are former Carbotech engineers.. the new company is G-LOC.

On Fri, Apr 5, 2019, 10:47 AM Erik Halvorson <hammer_down at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> I see semi- metallic pads listed for both AD18 and AD22 brakes on Rock
> Auto,  which i would take over most of the ceramic pads. I put a set of
> semi metallic Wagners pads on the last B13 i built for a commuter and they
> worked well.    I hate the lack of initial bite from most ceramic pads I've
> tried when i first step in the pedal.  Not sure how fade resistant the
> semi- metallic would be though.  The Metal Masters were great for resisting
> fade.   Probably even axis are only NOS close out now.
>
> On the R32 GTR (R33 Brembos), I do like the Hawk Blue, stop-tech hot
> street/ auto-x and carbon tech street pads.   Great initial bite.   Don't
> care if they are dirty.... just want them to stop consistently.   Lots of
> pad choices for those calipers.
>
> I'm probably going with a lightweight wilwood setup on the Datsun 510 and
> probably oem Brembos (350Z) for the 280Z build.   Lots of pad choices for
> those too.
>
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> *From:* se-r <se-r-bounces at se-r-list.org> on behalf of Eric Waterman <
> eric.waterman at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, April 4, 2019 7:43:31 AM
> *To:* David Pertuz
> *Cc:* Jaret Rapp; SE-R List
> *Subject:* Re: Brake pads
>
> On all my other cars, I’m using StopTech Street pads. Low dust and no
> noise that I can hear.  These are on a Evo 9 and 2 Forester XTs, so heavier
> cars than the B13/B14.
>
> Eric Waterman
>
> On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 9:38 AM David Pertuz <d.pertuz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> After calling my FLAPSes it seems the best thing easily available are
>> Wagner ceramics. It's either those at around $45 or another set of
>> Porterfields for twice that, and as much as I like good brake pads, it
>> doesn't seem worth it for the ~1500mi/year of city/suburban driving that
>> the car sees.
>>
>> Amusingly Metal Masters showed up in an internet search, but they're
>> apparently NLA.
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 12:43 PM David Pertuz <d.pertuz at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I didn't think you could date yourself with a brake pad reference...then
>>> I finished the sentence :)
>>>
>>> I called my nearby dealer just for kicks and asked (I was starting to
>>> help navigate the parts-counter guy through the usual questions then
>>> skipped the process and just read him my VIN from memory and told him it
>>> was a 509 pad - what does that say about me??) and he told me one that it
>>> listed for $80 :0 and two it was NLA. If I'm paying $80 for pads I'm buying
>>> Porterfields.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 12:17 PM Jaret Rapp via se-r <se-r at se-r-list.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> This answer is going to date me, but doesn't this mailing list in
>>>> general?   I am still running Repco Metal Masters.   I am almost certain
>>>> they do not make them anymore, or at least Repco is not in business or in
>>>> business by another name (Maybe DBA)?
>>>>
>>>> They were the pads to have as far as I can remember back in the day.
>>>> Came from Australia, lasted forever (literally in my case) , didn't stop
>>>> for crap until they got heat in them.
>>>>
>>>> I know that probably doesn't help answer your question.
>>>>
>>>> BTW, BOO HISS to Nissan for not making practically anything for our
>>>> cars now.   But they are putting the RB26 back into production.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: David Pertuz <d.pertuz at gmail.com>
>>>> To: SE-R List <se-r at se-r-list.org>
>>>> Sent: Mon, Apr 1, 2019 12:52 pm
>>>> Subject: Brake pads
>>>>
>>>> What are those of you still driving your SE-Rs using for brake pads?
>>>> I've had a set of Porterfield R4Ses on the front for a million years, and
>>>> it's time to replace them. For my use case, OE would be fine but Nissan
>>>> doesn't sell pads for B13s any more, and they'd probably be overpriced
>>>> anyway. I have no idea what is decent and what isn't when it comes to the
>>>> (semi-metallic) options at my FLAPS. I do note that Porterfield still makes
>>>> pads for the car, so there's always that.
>>>>
>>>> (after sitting for a couple of weeks, I pulled the car out one day last
>>>> week only to hear an immediate brake-related rhythmic noise from the LF -
>>>> took the wheel off and immediately saw that half of the friction material
>>>> had broken off the backing plate and was sort of wandering around.)
>>>>
>>>> David
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