Going from dragstrip/street to street/corners

Boss281 said:

I upgraded the front brakes to the brembo kit (M-2300-S) recently. My expectation was a better experience than what I get from the stock rotors and Hawk HPS pads--coming down from speed has been white knuckle at times. My Focus ST brakes are stellar, and really bring the car down from speed. With the pads included in the Brembo kit on the Mustang, frankly, I just expected better. Without an exercise to actually measure the braking distance my observation is seat of the pants, but I am so far underwhelmed.

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Norm Peterson said:

Do you know what pads were shipped with the kit?
Norm

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Norm Peterson said:

I suspect they're still an OE street formulation of some sort, without nearly the 'bite' of even an entry-level track pad such as Carbotech XP8 / G-loc R8.


Norm

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Sky Render said:

Good grief; do you read before you post? Norm was saying to use the highest hole on the brackets, meaning when the car is lowered, the arms would be parallel to the ground.

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Sky Render said:

Get some Hawk HPS 5.0

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Speedboosted said:

I forget that this is actually one of the few good pads Hawk makes. Do you have them personally?

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noldevin said:

This. I don't think motorcraft even makes any track-worthy pads?

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