What Brakes?

[sophie23_98]

hi just to let you no my other half hotstepper uses black diamond and he swears by them thy are reasonable on price to i fink £50 or under he also as uprated disc which are cheaper than standard discs from wot i rememeber.
just my 2p worth :Giggle

[Johnerz]

endless cc-x mate.  just fitted mine recently and put castrol srf flud thru the system and the difference is amazing.  great in wet or dry.  got mine from newera for £264 to my door for all 4 corners.  im using standard discs as well

[JP825]

endless cc-x mate.  just fitted mine recently and put castrol srf flud thru the system and the difference is amazing.  great in wet or dry.  got mine from newera for £264 to my door for all 4 corners.  im using standard discs as well

I heard they are pretty good too, will be much better with uprated disc:Thumbs-up

[BenLewisMav]

What would you recommend for the nurburgring ?

[Mazdarotaryparts]

hi just to let you no my other half hotstepper uses black diamond and he swears by them thy are reasonable on price to i fink £50 or under he also as uprated disc which are cheaper than standard discs from wot i rememeber.
just my 2p worth :Giggle

Hi Sophie,

John must either be real gentle on brakes or Black Diamond have changed compounds.

According to Black Diamond we have sold more of their disc\'s for them to fit RX-7\'s than any company, however we have deliberately not sold their pads for some five years now after we witnessed a customer we knew suffer from severe brake fade and rapid wear in just one track day session

[Mazdarotaryparts]

What would you recommend for the nurburgring ?

Here you go Ben, if your using standard Mazda callipers you need look no further than here

http://www.mazdarotaryparts.com/bfd-bs02-special-mrp-developed--track-day-hawk-brake-pad-combinationb-851-p.asp

Hope this helps

[mutleysfriend]

You really need to buy your brakes according to what your going to use the car for,

The pads I directed you to were for fast road, however if your only going on road and not track and road then Ian\'s ( lockwood77) would not be for you also DS3000 really is a race pad and not for road at all and if mutleysfriend (sorry don\'t know your name) was unimpressed with Xtreame when around 150 people were pleased then he does some "serious" braking which is why he can live with DS3000,

Hopefully this will help clarify things

I agree entirely, I am using my RX-7 almost exclusively for the track and DS3000\'s are just the job in that environment.

I have DS2500\'s on my daily drive car (Nissan Skyline) and that is used all year round, sun, rain and snow. In my view the DS2500 are a better pad than the Mintex Xtremes that I had on the RX-7.

All this of course is very subjective, it\'s a bit like asking people what\'s the best tyres to use. Ask a 100 people and you\'ll probably get a 100 different opinions.
All the best,
mf.

[20B_boy]

What would you recommend for the nurburgring ?

I\'d go for DS2500, cant really fault them tbh. Hawk are ok. Performance Friction are great if you dont mind paying the premium and getting through disks quicker. Max has done I would imagine more laps at the ring in an FD than, well, I dunno who on DS2500s. I ate Mintex pads, swapped to PF and ate disks and now use DS2500s and Hawks (which I\'ve always found dust *a lot*, but hey...). Really a case of try them and find what feels good for you.

[m4drx]

thank you for all the feedback peeps really appreciate it.

i always try to keep the car \'normal\' to an extent as in the past i have made a few mistake such as solid engine mounts which in alot of cases arent worth the sacrifice etc.

my car was used more on the street and shows etc etc but now its more taken out for harder driving and track so it needs to be a more focussed pad. im after minimal dust as my wheels are delicate and costly but also relatively long wearing and not too harmful to disks. it also seems this is achievable

i have all braided lines too and im getting some front vented discs to aid with it. Right it basically is looking like the DS2500 is what would be good for me but is there anywhere in particular that is good to get them from. (pm me if you wish.)

i would like to know how good the black diamonds are but my guess is that they are a bargain but a case of you get what you paid for and not much better than stockers.

hopefully a set of DS2500\'s vented fronts and getting my abs fixed should be enough to get it stopping properly

thanks again.

[m4drx]

edit ive just seen what clive has said about the black diamonds and i see why they arent too popular for us track nuts.

[Nik da Greek]

Like I said, dude, Black Diamond discs are great, their pads are sh!te! Glad it\'s not just me thinking it, if Clive says so too, that\'s good enough for me!

[m4drx]

yep, just remembering now what people told me last year about them. definately not good for my purpose.

[sophie23_98]

well yeh we are using the new pads they just fetched out alot better now then before now thy using differnet compound been maybe speak with jon he nows alot more about them than me

Just that jon as good services with them we go direct as they sponser jon for events.

[20B_boy]

well yeh we are using the new pads they just fetched out alot better now then before now thy using differnet compound been maybe speak with jon he nows alot more about them than me

Just that jon as good services with them we go direct as they sponser jon for events.

That sounds impartial!

[m1tch]

Black Diamond disks, hawk pads job done