Best brake pads for the FoST

"R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet" (r-saldana)
09/03/2015 at 12:33 • Filed to: None

I am extremely tired of the OEM pads turning my silver FoST black every day. Any suggestions for really good quality brake pads, preferably ceramic.

I was also wondering if one could acquire a set of Mustang GT Brembo calipers and put them on the FoST. And whether or not that would actually do any good for the car.

350R brakes and GT Track pack brakes for your time.

DISCUSSION (29)

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet
09/03/2015 at 12:36

I would make a wager that Bremb builds a FoST specific kit. Or maybe wilwood or someone. If you’re going full upgrade may as well see if the kit exists

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
09/03/2015 at 12:38

Whuile I don’t doubt that, I do recall someone onhere heading to the parts bin for a set of CTS-V brakes to put on their early 2000s camaro

Slant6 > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet
09/03/2015 at 12:40

Which brake pads is best brake pads?

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet
09/03/2015 at 12:45

That may work out well for a 15 year-old car, but I’m guessing it’ll be cheaper and easier in the long run to just buy a kit.

I’d love for someone on here to prove me wrong tho, it’d be a cool conversion people could do

banjo cat ghost of oppo past > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet
09/03/2015 at 12:50

EBC bake pads foo

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > banjo cat ghost of oppo past
09/03/2015 at 13:00

Red or green

Alos, have heard of some people running Red hawk or others.

Will with a W8 races an E30 > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet
09/03/2015 at 13:02

High performance brake pads create dust. This is a “feature” of just about any performance oriented car. Mustang GTs do it, most BMWs do it, any VW/Audi with performance pretensions does it, and all of Ford’s “ST” cars do it. Your focus comes stock with a (relatively, for a street car) high performance compound to reduce brake fade under aggressive/track driving, at the cost of creating dust. Maybe the cheap Autozone replacement pad will swing the tradeoff the other direction? You could use Focus SE brakes - those don’t dust. They’ll just fade on the 2nd hard stop.

Kanaric > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet
09/03/2015 at 13:04

I have the GT with perf pack, a 2014, and my front wheels are brown with dust after not long

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > Will with a W8 races an E30
09/03/2015 at 13:09

Hm, filing this under TIL. I was told by the “service advisor” at Ford that the stock brake pads were a semi-metallic set and that is what causes all of the brake dust.

Alternatively, I recently did a complete rotor and pad install on the Disco II and the new pads I got suck fucking ass. My stopping distance on new, non-scored rotors and “performance” pads is easily 1/4 more than on my warped old rotors and pads that I can;t remember what brand of pads.

Textured Soy Protein > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet
09/03/2015 at 13:12

I’ve used Axxis Ultimate and Hawk HP+ on my NB Miata, and EBC RedStuff on my Mazdaspeed 6. Hard to compare absolute stopping power on different cars, but I think it was HP+ > RedStuff > Ultimate.

RedStuff made no squeaks and very little dust.

HP+ were great at stopping but made piles of dust and squeaked.

Ultimate was less dusty than HP+ but still noisy.

If you go for the RedStuff you’ll be very happy.

Will with a W8 races an E30 > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet
09/03/2015 at 13:12

Hawks (the blue at least, not sure about the red) have a nice feature where the dust turns into a caustic cement when it gets wet. It then proceeds to eat through the clear coat and aluminum while you attempt to remove it with a chisel. Apart from that, great race pads!

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > Textured Soy Protein
09/03/2015 at 13:17

Awesome, thanks AtlasM.

Will with a W8 races an E30 > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet
09/03/2015 at 13:17

It’s a spectrum with any pad. Pretty sure most of Ford’s pads are semi metallic, but the requirements for dust generation are set based on the intended use of the car. Cars like a hybrid MKZ have brakes that will fade badly after one hard stop from highway speed (will work properly once cooled off), but are quiet and create very little dust. For a ST, noise and dust aren’t as much of a concern, but repeatedly stopping from high speed without fade is, hence the tradeoff. Most race pads, which take the trade off even further, are incredibly noisy when cold, and generate enormous amounts of (often very corrosive) brake dust. It’s up to the designer to figure out where on that spectrum the customer would be happiest.

Textured Soy Protein > Will with a W8 races an E30
09/03/2015 at 13:18

Interestingly enough, EBC RedStuff pads made way less dust than the stock pads on my Mazdaspeed 6. If you want a good low-dust performance pad, that’s the move.

Will with a W8 races an E30 > Textured Soy Protein
09/03/2015 at 13:20

That’s surprising. Assume they’re noisy/expensive/terrible cold/don’t last/some other tradeoff vs the stock pad?

Textured Soy Protein > Will with a W8 races an E30
09/03/2015 at 13:23

They were silent, fine when cold but did improve with heat, and were still going strong when I got rid of the car 3 years after I bought the pads. Even with slotted rotors. I paid $189 for the front/rear set.

CPT Speedbump > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet
09/03/2015 at 13:39

I like Hawk pads but they make lots of brake dust

banjo cat ghost of oppo past > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet
09/03/2015 at 13:48

apparently reds squeak

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > Will with a W8 races an E30
09/03/2015 at 14:22

Oh awesome, well I guess I will never use those

uofime-2 > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet
09/03/2015 at 14:59

did you bed the new rotors and pads, that will make a big difference sometimes.

different manufactures have different recommendations but it’s usually something like slow from 60 to 20 10 times then drive around for 10 mins without coming to a stop as the pads cool.

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > uofime-2
09/03/2015 at 15:12

Yep.

uofime-2 > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet
09/03/2015 at 15:19

Well that sucks!

gizmo-ms3 > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet
09/03/2015 at 15:26

I had Akebono Euro pads on my MS3. No dust and I had no complaints on stopping with my daily commute. I now have a 2015 FoST. Looks like those pads are available for this car as well.

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > gizmo-ms3
09/03/2015 at 15:30

I thin kI had those on my Disco II oddly enough, but I didn’t want to say it for fear of being pelted with angry comments.

gizmo-ms3 > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet
09/03/2015 at 15:32

Lol. I wasn’t aware they had a bad reputation. I got them because of some good reviews by other MS3 owners.

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > gizmo-ms3
09/03/2015 at 15:36

Well, I wasn’t sure at first I could remember seeing the package but I thought I might be confusing them with something I saw on here, regarding actual performance cars.

djmanila > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet
09/03/2015 at 16:03

do they have Hawk HPS for your car? Those are good street/track pads along with Hawk HP+

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > djmanila
09/03/2015 at 16:22

apparently they produce a caustic brake dust that will tear yo shit up

djmanila > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet
09/03/2015 at 16:56

I think he meant Hawk Blue which is a straight track pad.

http://www.ecstuning.com/BMW-E36-M3-S52…

check the chart, this is for the M3 but should be the same application.