What are good brake pads for FTO?

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What are good brake pads for FTO?

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hey, as above, anyone have any suggestions. please give approximate prices if you know them... thanks!
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Depends on if you take your car to the track or not. If road use only, I heard ECB Green Stuff is good enough.
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Greenstuff are good pads, I've heard that 'Racebrakes' RB74's are good too :wink:
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I had good experience with Endless on a FTO. RDA are very average, i would avoid them.
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thanks guys, anyone know sources for these??
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Man i just use Bendix at the moment about $50 (trade) i think they r about $70 retail and they are excellent i thrash the sh*t out of mine even round hills and have never had any brake fade before (but i havnt done any mods to my car yet). any more expensive that then you might as well pay the $300 and full upgrade to the UAS ones
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I use Race Brake's RB74 pads on the front.

Dusty, but they stop good.
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I8AFRE wrote: any more expensive that then you might as well pay the $300 and full upgrade to the UAS ones
I hope you don't mean the brake upgrade kits, its no where near $300, well maybe just the labor cost.
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Fok me yeah i dont know what the hell i was looking at lol
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Whats the go with the rears? Same sort of thing ie. racebrakes or ebc's good? Mine still need doing, yet to get around to it but :(
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from what i can tell so far lots of people who've tried EBC's prefer Racebrake's RB74's on front and Comp2 on rear. so far i've been able to source them at $160/set.

i have a question though, how hard will these harder compound pads be on my standard rotors? will mostly be for street, but would like the option of doing a few trackdays...
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ooh! just noticed, im not a newbie anymore! *does a little victory dance*

anyway, back to the questions....
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