Tons of black dust? Raybestos
If you truly believe this then your car should be using EBC Reds or Yellows. There is nothing out there that stops your car better than they do. Period. There are no Semi-Metallic race pads that can even compete with the EBC Reds! Sounds like you need Yellows.
If you aren't running them, you're just all talk and not practicing what you preach. Since you don't mind spending money on replacing brake components, you should ditch whatever is on your car now if you aren't using EBC pads. If you are having trouble judging the stopping distances and brake fade while driving your car, EBC pads will shorten your stopping distances dramatically, fade is almost non existent. And they work great at a higher heat index so you can run them on the track, yet they work excellent at commuter driving too without having to get hot.
They are better than Hawk, better than those no-dust Powerstop pads, better than anything on the market for stopping power.
And if I'm correct, you don't mind dust? Then they are the only pads you need to be using. What's on your Duster now?
Your comments don't make any sense. EBC Reds are a ceramic brake pad.
My comments clearly favor semi-metallics for street use, and that's what I use. Plain old generic semi-metallics. Which means I'm not running EBC reds (ceramic) or yellows (aramid fiber), because I really do believe what I posted. Also, I don't know why you think the Redstuff pads are supposed to be worse for dust or rotor wear. EBC actually claims the exact opposite. Straight from EBC
"Make EBC Redstuff ceramic brake pads your low-dust replacement option. Redstuff pads reduce dust approximately 80 percent compared to OEM pads—and less dust also means less rotor wear!" So, is EBC lying about the performance of the Redstuff pads? Because according to EBC my semi-metallics tear up rotors faster and make more dust.
I run semi-metallics because they suit what I do with my car best. Average street use with occasional hard driving. The hard driving I do is enough to fade most organic pads, but not enough to fade the semi-metallics I run and definitely not enough to need "race pads" or EBC Yellows. And the boring street driving I do the majority of the time doesn't favor race pads. Honestly, there are probably organic pads that would work better for me for
most of the driving I do.
I take it from your comments that you've
literally tested every brake pad on the market? You've
personally compared
all the stopping distances? Which is how you know for a fact that the EBC's are "better than anything on the market for stopping power". Do you have the test parameters you used? Year/make/model and weight of the vehicle used, speed used for the braking test, number of stops that were used to come up with the average stopping distance for each brake pad, that sort of stuff. Was your testing published anywhere? Can I see the coefficient of friction numbers for every brake pad on the market that you came up with during your testing? I'd like to know the brake temperatures for the tests as well, if that's not too much trouble.
Or, are EBC's just best in your
opinion? Because that's not what you said. So lets see the data to prove it.
