anyone with the new hawk street/race pad?

[SeanRTR]

I did not. I bought another set of Stoptech 309's for the front only (I'm now at 54K+ miles). Most of the fast guys will tell you that you shouldn't be using the brakes on cars like ours with no power anyway, so I stuck with what I had, as I didn't want to go with LESS bite (Hawk HPS, or OEM).


Now, that being said I did this before I ran on the new Bridgestone RE71R cheater tires....now knowing the new level of grip (they're really NOT street tires), I would say the 309 Stoptech pads are now the minimum of what car would need for initial bite. With the grip of the new tires, I'd probably prefer something just slightly more aggressive, so one of the new Hawk compounds could still be a hot ticket.

[evilz]

The Hawk Street/Race pads feel great on my FRS in terms of bite/feel, but they dusted like crazy and very noticeably grooved all of my rotors after only ~1-2k miles. Did anyone else have a similar experience? I ran HP+s previously on my Celica for significantly longer without such grooving and was hoping the street/race would be in the same ballpark.


(stock front rotor after 4k miles on Hawk Street/Race pads, mainly street + 1 day at Streets of Willow)

[Silverspeed]

I used the Street/Race pads for autocross only at the end of last season. As far as I'm concerned they are repackaged HP+'s. Great initial bite but with the typical HP+ noise and dust.