Brake Pad Help Needed!
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Staging Lane
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Brake Pad Help Needed! I'm looking at getting a set of Rotor Works rotors and Hawk Brake pads for my car ('01 Trans Am WS6)
Hawk has three different sets of front pads (High Performance Street Compound) and two different sets of front pads that fit my car.
The fronts are as follows:
.594 Thick $64.98 P/N HB119F.594
.681 Thick $91.35 P/N HB217F.681
.575 Thick $106.83 P/N HB249F.575
The rears:
.540 Thick $79.64 P/N HB112F.540
.653 Thick $93.09 P/N HB250F.653
Really?? Why so many choices??
Why the different thicknesses?
Which ones do I need? If I'm doing just normal "spirited" street driving - should I just go with the cheapest ones??
Thanks!!
Dan
Hawk has three different sets of front pads (High Performance Street Compound) and two different sets of front pads that fit my car.
The fronts are as follows:
.594 Thick $64.98 P/N HB119F.594
.681 Thick $91.35 P/N HB217F.681
.575 Thick $106.83 P/N HB249F.575
The rears:
.540 Thick $79.64 P/N HB112F.540
.653 Thick $93.09 P/N HB250F.653
Really?? Why so many choices??
Why the different thicknesses?
Which ones do I need? If I'm doing just normal "spirited" street driving - should I just go with the cheapest ones??
Thanks!!
Dan
Last edited by ds2011; Jan 24, 2014 at 12:12 PM.
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Staging Lane
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This is what I decided to go with:
P/N HB249F.575
P/N HB250F.653
Tire Rack recommends these as the pads for the car AND they were recommended to me on another web site.
FYI - the WS6 Store sells them as a package deal cheaper than anywhere I could find buying them individually (fronts and backs).
Staging Lane
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From: Illinois side of STL
Brendan
This is what I decided to go with:
P/N HB249F.575
P/N HB250F.653
Tire Rack recommends these as the pads for the car AND they were recommended to me on another web site.
FYI - the WS6 Store sells them as a package deal cheaper than anywhere I could find buying them individually (fronts and backs).
This is what I decided to go with:
P/N HB249F.575
P/N HB250F.653
Tire Rack recommends these as the pads for the car AND they were recommended to me on another web site.
FYI - the WS6 Store sells them as a package deal cheaper than anywhere I could find buying them individually (fronts and backs).
I'm guessing the different thicknesses available might due to whether or not you have heat-shielding shims. I have titanium shims in my car, and they take up 1mm of the space used by the pads. Thus, I require thinner pads than normal.
