Gannet

This is for a spirited street car, but you guys are the brake experts so I hope you'll excuse me asking here.

To put usage in perspective, I wore out stock front brakes on my '09Z in 24k miles. This was on a couple of sets of pure street tires, but when it comes out of the shop I'm probably going to change to MPSCs or similar to get it to hook up.

Time for new rotors & pads, and I can't afford the full BBK I would like. I'm going to use a quality aftermarket rotor and a street/autocross pad, but I'm a little stumped on one question: use one of the 1-piece pad solutions, or stick with the padlet design?

Your input is appreciated.

C5Lion

For the street you are not going to need 1 piece pads. I would go with the less expensive option and I believe 1 piece pads are more expensive. At the track my padlets do OK but wear unevenly. The car still stops really well. The padlets will provide enough clamping power to overcome whenever street tire you have on anyway.

davidfarmer

Good street padlets. A track pad will be too cool on the street and require high pedal effort to stop the car.

95jersey

I use Carbotech one peice street pad (Bobcat compound). It is a street/auto-x pad and works better than OEM and dusts much less. I prefer it simply because it was easier to change back and forth from race to street compound (I also ran their one peice racing pad). I found the paddlets too fustrating at any cost to deal with.

If you only are going to run one type of brake pad, the paddlets are cheaper, but are a real PITA to change and for the extra couple bucks prefer the single piece. But don't expect ANY performance gain (especially on the street).

I personally recommend Carbotech Bobcat compound (paddlet or one piece) for spirited street driving (low noise, low dust and better bite than OEM).

Adam@Amp'dAutosport.com

I would use the one piece pad. More pad surface, even wear and get a quality rotor like dba 4000.

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