<div><div dir="auto">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. </div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Eric Waterman</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 9:38 AM David Pertuz <<a href="mailto:d.pertuz@gmail.com">d.pertuz@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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. <div><br></div><div>Amusingly Metal Masters showed up in an internet search, but they're apparently NLA. </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 12:43 PM David Pertuz <<a href="mailto:d.pertuz@gmail.com" target="_blank">d.pertuz@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I didn't think you could date yourself with a brake pad reference...then I finished the sentence :)<div><br></div><div>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. </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 12:17 PM Jaret Rapp via se-r <<a href="mailto:se-r@se-r-list.org" target="_blank">se-r@se-r-list.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font color="black" size="2" face="arial">
<div>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)?</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>I know that probably doesn't help answer your question.</div>
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<div>BTW, BOO HISS to Nissan for not making practically anything for our cars now. But they are putting the RB26 back into production.</div>
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From: David Pertuz <<a href="mailto:d.pertuz@gmail.com" target="_blank">d.pertuz@gmail.com</a>><br>
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<div dir="ltr">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.
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<div>(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.)</div>
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