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seungklee · 02-02-2011, 01:42 AM

If your car is being driven mostly on streets and sees occasional track days, I recommend not going Carbotech pads. Buy them only for the track use whether it be XP10's front and XP8's rear. For street, stock Akebonos should be good, unless yours didn't come with Akebonos. If yours didn't come with it, hmm I suggest Projet Mu brake pads? Actually, people will need to chime in on this one. However, if you buy Carbotech pads for the street use, you will accumulate a lot of brake dust and it will be very noisy. Even the non-sport brakes are good enough in my opinion because upgrading the pad will give you more stopping force, but I think it may be overkill for a street use. I wouldn't change my street pads until my stock Akebono pads are gone. I went to Streets of Willow track with just Motul RBF600's and my pad wear is still good. Do you feel that your stock brakes aren't doing its job?

02-02-2011, 01:42 AM	#2 (permalink)
seungklee Enthusiast Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: SoCal Posts: 291 Drives: you around! Rep Power: 15	If your car is being driven mostly on streets and sees occasional track days, I recommend not going Carbotech pads. Buy them only for the track use whether it be XP10's front and XP8's rear. For street, stock Akebonos should be good, unless yours didn't come with Akebonos. If yours didn't come with it, hmm I suggest Projet Mu brake pads? Actually, people will need to chime in on this one. However, if you buy Carbotech pads for the street use, you will accumulate a lot of brake dust and it will be very noisy. Even the non-sport brakes are good enough in my opinion because upgrading the pad will give you more stopping force, but I think it may be overkill for a street use. I wouldn't change my street pads until my stock Akebono pads are gone. I went to Streets of Willow track with just Motul RBF600's and my pad wear is still good. Do you feel that your stock brakes aren't doing its job? Last edited by seungklee; 02-02-2011 at 01:46 AM.