follow ft86club on our blog, twitter or facebook.
FT86CLUB
Ft86Club
Delicious Tuning
Register Garage Members List Calendar Search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read

Go Back   Toyota GR86, 86, FR-S and Subaru BRZ Forum & Owners Community - FT86CLUB > Technical Topics > Suspension | Chassis | Brakes -- Sponsored by 949 Racing

Suspension | Chassis | Brakes -- Sponsored by 949 Racing Relating to suspension, chassis, and brakes. Sponsored by 949 Racing.


User Tag List

Reply
 
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Old 09-20-2017, 10:48 PM   #1
radroach
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Feb 2013
Drives: car
Location: usa
Posts: 2,162
Thanks: 1,028
Thanked 867 Times in 530 Posts
Mentioned: 35 Post(s)
Tagged: 1 Thread(s)
Stoptech 309

Recently replaced my stock brakes with Stoptech 309's and want to leave some impressions. Using my original stock rotor at about 85,000 miles.

First off I'm not sure if I ordered the sport pads or the street pads. Guessing sport pads are for track. My order for StopTech 309.15390 seems to mean I ordered the sport pads. Oops. Came in some good packaging but had no part #'s on it.

Recently installed, I have mixed opinions. They stop good, easy to use. But they don't have bite when cold. And also at low speeds, make some pretty chunky sounds. I'll have to see how they wear in, if the noise will subside any, but this is my main concern. Guess I should have been paying attention and bought the street pads.

At $45-65, these are a pretty good value, but I'm starting to think that the OEM pads might be better suited for using the rest of the stock brake hardware.
radroach is offline   Reply With Quote
The Following User Says Thank You to radroach For This Useful Post:
rkaywhodat (09-20-2017)
Old 09-20-2017, 10:54 PM   #2
rkaywhodat
Member
 
Join Date: Jun 2016
Drives: 2017 Toyota 86 Halo
Location: Ottawa
Posts: 74
Thanks: 23
Thanked 22 Times in 14 Posts
Mentioned: 1 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Garage
I considered these at one point and likely will pass over them again.

Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk
rkaywhodat is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 09-20-2017, 11:18 PM   #3
jamal
Senior Member
 
jamal's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2011
Drives: Legacy GT
Location: compton
Posts: 534
Thanks: 9
Thanked 365 Times in 204 Posts
Mentioned: 11 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
When they added the 308 pad they changed the naming a bit. 309 used to be "street performance." Now 308 is "street" and 309 is "sport."

I have the 309s, they have worked great for me. It's definitely important to bed them in, I've seen reports of people having issues with noise and uneven deposits, but I went out with new centric premium rotors, new 309 pads, and did some hard stops and they have not made a peep and work when cold.
jamal is offline   Reply With Quote
The Following User Says Thank You to jamal For This Useful Post:
radroach (09-21-2017)
Old 09-21-2017, 12:48 AM   #4
radroach
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Feb 2013
Drives: car
Location: usa
Posts: 2,162
Thanks: 1,028
Thanked 867 Times in 530 Posts
Mentioned: 35 Post(s)
Tagged: 1 Thread(s)
@jamal I'll try some hard stops and see if I get an improvement
radroach is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 09-21-2017, 01:11 PM   #5
SpartaEvolution
Member
 
SpartaEvolution's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2017
Drives: NSX, G35, E36 328i racecar
Location: Redmond, WA
Posts: 15
Thanks: 2
Thanked 8 Times in 7 Posts
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
It sounds like you did get track pads, as they usually have a higher working temperature range to achieve their rated friction value. Our street / track hybrid SPP 3.0 pads, for example, have a 100 - 500°C working temperature range, so from 0 - 100°C, they might only have a μ value of 0.30, but once they reach 100°C and above they'll be in the ~0.37-0.44 range.
SpartaEvolution is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 09-21-2017, 01:54 PM   #6
jamal
Senior Member
 
jamal's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2011
Drives: Legacy GT
Location: compton
Posts: 534
Thanks: 9
Thanked 365 Times in 204 Posts
Mentioned: 11 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Well, the stoptech 309 "sport" pad is still not what I would consider a track pad. It can handle pretty high temps (they list the mot as something like 1400f) and can be used on track but it is not ideal compared to a track specific pad.

Here is the recommended bed-in procedure from stoptech

http://www.stoptech.com/technical-su...in-suggestions

you have to get those things pretty hot. I could smell them and the pedal started to get a bit soft despite having fresh rbf600 in there. Then once they cooled back down initial bite and feel was awesome.
jamal is offline   Reply With Quote
The Following User Says Thank You to jamal For This Useful Post:
kevaughan (06-14-2022)
 
Reply

Thread Tools Search this Thread
Search this Thread:

Advanced Search

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
FS: Stoptech BBK Ny Brz NY / NJ / CT / PA 2 08-16-2015 05:26 PM
WTB: StopTech 328 BBK AyJay Want-To-Buy Requests 3 06-04-2015 12:17 PM
Will these StopTech's fit? omgwtfbbqsauce Suspension | Chassis | Brakes -- Sponsored by 949 Racing 7 07-11-2013 05:43 AM
Stoptech BBK for FR-S & BRZ ultra Suspension | Chassis | Brakes -- Sponsored by 949 Racing 2 08-23-2012 07:25 PM
stoptech/trd (Stealth Inc.) Suspension | Chassis | Brakes -- Sponsored by 949 Racing 6 04-21-2012 01:00 PM


All times are GMT -4. The time now is 06:35 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.11
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions Inc.
User Alert System provided by Advanced User Tagging v3.3.0 (Lite) - vBulletin Mods & Addons Copyright © 2024 DragonByte Technologies Ltd.

Garage vBulletin Plugins by Drive Thru Online, Inc.