bayer-z28

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Ok, I did a brake upgrade today. I installed the WS6Store Rotorworks all 4 drilled and slotted. It's been 17k miles and 2 years since I did brakes. THey recently started squeaking and I figured they were due. I ordered the SAME non ceramic Hawk pads as I installed 2 years ago.

I went to install my new pads and.... THey didn't wear AT ALL!! WTF is going on? 17k miles on 1/16th of pad wear?? I have also done about a dozen or so 150 pulls w/ hard braking in the past 2 years. The new pads also looked different. The shape and the material. THey fit fine, tho. I checked their 'footing' on the rotor and it's fine.. They sit a little high, but seem to have a better footprint on the rotor.

Oh, yeah. The brakes are like new now. They work 100% better! VERY little effort to get the car to slow down!.. ... I LOVE IT! My brakes were really soft before. My pads and rotors were glazed pretty bad.

here's some pics...

Old pads on the bottom...

Greggy

Front pads on ls1's wear slow compared to the rears. All my front rotors, on the other hand, warped in 10 to 30k. I just replaced my front rotors and reused old my front PFC pads that I like alot. They had 12k on them and no wear. However my steel caliper bolts/sliders start to bind up after like 12k. When they do the brakes don't feel as good. This seems to happen no matter how much I clean and grease them??

bayer-z28

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^^... My old pads sucked since day one. It just recently got worse. Right after I did my brakes 2 years ago I was surprised that a set of $80 pads would not bind that well. You can grease them slides all you want, but you really should get in there w/ a pic and scrape all that crap off the walls of the slide. THat's what makes the differance, keeps your calipers free floating.

THe rear is only a fraction of your braking. My rear pads were mint too. Fronts were slightly tapered, prolly form hard high speed baking.,