Ceramic or HPS Hawk Pads

tardy007
11-05-2005, 04:47 PM
Gonna be upgrading my brakes to LS1s and need to order pads. Anybody have any advice on which pads I should get?

Thanks!!!

slomarao
11-05-2005, 09:35 PM
hawk hp plus, call stranoparts talk to sam jr. he knows everything

Greed4Speed
11-06-2005, 04:05 PM
Get ceramic if you don't care about stopping faster but want no dust, and get the Hawks if you want to stop better and don't mind a little more dust.

Also, if you want better stopping, make sure you have decent tires too.

Joe 1320
11-08-2005, 05:54 PM
Get ceramic if you don't care about stopping faster but want no dust, .

Haha.... I hated my Ceramic pads. They were terrible until you build up a decent amount of heat. In the rain, they wouldn't bite at all....... It made me really nervous as the stopping power just wasn't there. I replaced them after about 3K miles with a more traditional Carbon Metallic.

NOSCaMaRo
11-08-2005, 11:12 PM
I have had great luck with the Hawk HPS pads, good all around Pad.

fb305svs
11-11-2005, 03:06 PM
brake pads should really be chosen based on the temp range you expect to experiance... ceramic pads are usually what someone would use for a higher temp range, ie road course driving...

Stick with some sort of a carbon or metallic pad - the HPS are a pretty decent pad from the people i have talked to :)

RE AND CHERYL
11-11-2005, 05:17 PM
I run Hawk HPS pads, wash my car once a week, and never see brake dust on the wheels. Go Hawk :thumb: