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steh

steh

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green stuff pads? i have a 17 year old son who is into all the mags and cars, max power, revs, and all that jap stuff.
he keeps telling me that i should buy green stuff pads as thay give off a lot less dust, anyone use them?

steve
 
I use them.
No dust, but unfortunately, I have nothing to compare them to. Spose I'll try Pagid next just to see any difference made
 
They seem to stop better to me, they do not take the wear sensor though. I had my pads machined so that the wear sensor would fit, and yes less dust.[FONT=verdana,geneva"]
 
They are considered to be pretty dreadful for track work (but so are OE pads), however, they may be just fine for the road. They may even be better than OE in terms of dust and/or some other performance parameters. Personally, dust is right at the bottom of my list when evaluating a brake pad.

Brake pads are always a compromise between primarily cost and performance but also noise, dust, cold performance and hot performance. The proven and most often recommended upgrade pads are Pagid Blue and Porterfield R4S. The next step up to race pads are Pagid Orange, PFC97 etc. There are many more, but these pads "do what they say on the tin" and are proven to work - at a cost.

I have no personal experience with Green Stuff pads. If they seem to good to be true then they probably are - but they may be just fine for the road.

RB
 
They are considered to be pretty dreadful for track work (but so are OE pads), however, they may be just fine for the road. They may even be better than OE in terms of dust and/or some other performance parameters. Personally, dust is right at the bottom of my list when evaluating a brake pad.
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Richard, I know this is slightly off topic from the original post, but, do you know if anyone has used the 'red stuff' pads on track, as that's what they advertise them for, the 'green stuff' was only meant for fast road use....(according to the ads!)
 
IIRC, the Red Stuff were somewhat notorious for disintegrating after only one day on track when used in heavier cars. No doubt the formulation has changed somewhat over the last 5 years so they may be absolutely fine now. I still think the best bet on track is to stick to the usual suspects or well respected brands/compounds within the race industry rather than track day industry. This means Pagid, Porterfield, PFC for Porsches. A cheaper option, in the second camp, is to get Mintex pads in a compound like 1155 made up from somewhere like MotorSportWorld. Mintex 1144 would be a good fast road/occasional track day pad and they are very competitively priced.

I am sure other brands work, but I can only recommend the ones I have used - which is why my list is fairly short.
 
Have used the Green stuff pads for track days with no problem, I like them very much. They are a significany improvement over OEM porsche pads with minimal dust!

Bruec
 
thanks bruec, my son says the the bizz, thing is he gets it all from the mags , he does'nt drive yet.

steve
 
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