Brake pads

[Eric Waterman]

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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Thanks,
Eric
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