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Old 09 May 2014, 08:49 PM
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Default Brake & Pads Reccomendation for Prodrive WRX Blobeye

The time has come for me to change the discs and pads on the car.

It currently is running the standard WRX Brake set up, with grooved discs front and back, but I am not completely happy with this set up.

I am thinking that I need some drilled discs, but having never owned a Scooby until this car I am after some advise.

The car is used as a bit of a daily driver (circa 100 miles/week) with some side roads and motorway use, so not looking for out and out performance set up as don't intend to take it on a track any time soon, but do want something that can take some occasional abuse so to speak.

So what do you think??

Thanks for your help

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Old 10 May 2014, 09:20 AM
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in general the pad material has more bearing on the brake feel & performance than discs and personally i wouldn't use drilled variants unless from the likes of Brembo..............(all calipers working correctly, etc.)

what pad are you suing and what specific issues or problems are you tying to solve??
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OEM discs with PF pads all round. Wont break the bank and great stopping power
Old 10 May 2014, 01:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Cocker
OEM discs with PF pads all round. Wont break the bank and great stopping power
PF pads what are they?
Old 10 May 2014, 01:42 PM
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Originally Posted by sedge69
PF pads what are they?
PF=Performance friction some of the best braking pads and disc I have personally ever usedbut for the four pots they only do the pads,Brembo only for the two piece disc last time I looked,but the pads are "really" that Good.SJ.
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Originally Posted by stonejedi
PF=Performance friction some of the best braking pads and disc I have personally ever usedbut for the four pots they only do the pads,Brembo only for the two piece disc last time I looked,but the pads are "really" that Good.SJ.
is this the web site http://www.performancefriction.com
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Originally Posted by sedge69
Yes that's one,they have a few,Alyn of ASPERFORMANCE is who you want to talk to really for superb prices and service.SJ.
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Originally Posted by stonejedi
Yes that's one,they have a few,Alyn of ASPERFORMANCE is who you want to talk to really for superb prices and service.SJ.
thanks mate
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Originally Posted by stonejedi
PF=Performance friction some of the best braking pads and disc I have personally ever usedbut for the four pots they only do the pads,Brembo only for the two piece disc last time I looked,but the pads are "really" that Good.SJ.
PF don't make Z rated pads for the Subaru 4 pots though , only race pads
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or www.superhids.co.uk will be very competitive on brakes aswell
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It might help you to see what they do and what they don't,there very high quality pads none the less but the best man to talk to would be Alyn from ASPERFORMANCE really as he deals with a lot of there parts.http://www.racehardware.com/Document...riction_V8.pdf.SJ.
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Originally Posted by AS Performance

what pad are you suing and what specific issues or problems are you tying to solve??
I am not sure what the discs and pads currently are on the car as I only bought it back in Feb/March this year.

They just don't seem to bite like I expected them too and upon closer visual inspection the discs look like they are on their way out.

I just don't have full confidence in them, hence why I don't really push my car atm as I want this sorted out, safety first and all that.

As said I don't intend on doing track days or anything like that, but I do enjoy some A road fun (just not atm).




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