Best Bang For You Buck All-Round Brake Pads???

Postby **Okibi** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 12:22 pm

(I haven't tried Hawk or EBC etc. )
I use Bendix Ultimate, they seem a great all round pad for our naturally aspirated NB.

They make a heap of brake dust but I put up with that given how well the pads perform.

PT · Postby PT » Wed Jan 23, 2008 12:32 pm

Another vote for Bendix Ultimate.

JBT · Postby **JBT** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 12:32 pm

I found OEM pads on the NA8 we had and the NC we currently have were/are just great for road and track days.

PT · Postby PT » Wed Jan 23, 2008 12:50 pm

Track days yes... but what about when 'mountain dríven?'

JBT · Postby **JBT** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 2:18 pm

\"Mountain dríven\" is muuuuch easier than track days.

Fatty · Postby **Fatty** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 4:56 pm

yes the bendix pads are good, but i agree with jbt it is worth checking out the oem pads as well, they are a good all purpose pad and not as dusty as the bendix.

fastfreddygassit · Postby **fastfreddygassit** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 6:28 pm

Fatty wrote:yes the bendix pads are good, but i agree with jbt it is worth checking out the oem pads as well, they are a good all purpose pad and not as dusty as the bendix.

evidently they perform much better when orientated the correct way :mrgreen:

Fatty · Postby **Fatty** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 6:52 pm

Juffa · Postby **Juffa** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 8:26 pm

Fatty wrote::oops:

Hey I believe that should be my response :shock:

Juffa · Postby **Juffa** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 8:32 pm

As part of the upgrade to a turbo I also installed NA8 brakes on my NA6. I had the disks machined and fitted OEM brake pads all around. I never really liked them. When I bought the bigger brakes I was given two sets of used pads OEM and some higher spec ones. I recently fitted the higher spec ones, and think they are great. I have only used them on the road and they have much better stopping power than the OEM pads. I'm pretty sure the previous owner used them on track. There is not a lot of meat left and if I could work out what they are I would like to get them again.
Not much help to this thread until I can find out they are.

J

StanTheMan · Postby **StanTheMan** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 8:42 pm

I have OEM NB8A pads in the front. Absolutely love them.
They may be $300 But i guess its like getting a decent tyre.

worth while in my book.

meanmx · Postby **meanmx** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 2:07 am

I had NB8B original pads in and now have EBC Red stuff on the front and EBC Green stuff on the back. Have found them to be alot better.

Ben

JBT · Postby **JBT** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 7:50 am

I can't believe I'm reading that people fit brake pads that work when they are \"warmed up\". :shock:

I want mine to work 100% from the time my car first moves until it is parked for the night. Oddly enough, the OEM pads do that.

Charlie Brown · Postby **Charlie Brown** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 8:48 am

JBT wrote:I can't believe I'm reading that people fit brake pads that work when they are "warmed up". I want mine to work 100% from the time my car first moves until it is parked for the night. Oddly enough, the OEM pads do that.

Must have something to do with Mazda having a bigger bucket of money than us minnows to get the pad material right for 99% of the people driving a MX-5.

And JBT the OEM pads on the NC work fine both on and off the track. I just wanted to raise the top end working temp as a bit of insurance on the track which is why I went for the HPS. The only offset is on a winter morning (probably not Brisbane) you need to ride the brakes for 50 metres to put a little heat into them.

My original NC pads, probably made in Japan, were a different material to the replacement OEM pads I bought here. The second set was probably made locally by Bendix and boxed as Mazda and lasted a lot longer than the first and therefore obviously didnâ€™t dust as much.