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What are good brake pads for FTO?

Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 12:03 pm
by DeFunkeD
hey, as above, anyone have any suggestions. please give approximate prices if you know them... thanks!

Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 1:16 pm
by JOeJOe
Depends on if you take your car to the track or not. If road use only, I heard ECB Green Stuff is good enough.

Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 1:36 pm
by Bennoz
Greenstuff are good pads, I've heard that 'Racebrakes' RB74's are good too :wink:

Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 1:56 pm
by FTO338
I had good experience with Endless on a FTO. RDA are very average, i would avoid them.

Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 2:52 pm
by DeFunkeD
thanks guys, anyone know sources for these??

Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 6:31 pm
by I8A4RE
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

Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 6:44 pm
by Supplanter
I use Race Brake's RB74 pads on the front.

Dusty, but they stop good.

Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 6:49 pm
by FTO338
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.

Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 6:58 pm
by I8A4RE
Fok me yeah i dont know what the hell i was looking at lol

Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 8:11 pm
by scarecrow
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 :(

Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 2:01 pm
by DeFunkeD
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...

Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 2:02 pm
by DeFunkeD
ooh! just noticed, im not a newbie anymore! *does a little victory dance*

anyway, back to the questions....