Green Stuff?
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what's the best way to bed in some new EBC green stuff pads on 7.5 S discs?

Best way I find to bed in any brakes is ti drive with my left foot on the brake pedal until they start to fade (or get very hot).

Let them cool down, jobs-a-good-one.

Wil

Fastest 998 mini in the world? 13.05 1/4 mile 106mph

i had green stuff on my 106 thought they were crap

well i've already bought them on the strength on some peoples views so hopefully they will work well! maybe its different for 106's?

by following their instructions...

AlexF

IMO Greens stuff's are over rated, tried "reds" to on the track and did'nt feel any different to greens except they did'nt last as long.

Genuine Unipart S pads are very good, used those in hillclimb as they work very well from cold.

As Will said, give a bit of left foot braking. Should'nt take long at all.

Edited by giallofly on 3rd Dec, 2004.

I agree Jon, Mintex 1144s work well thou...

alex

AlexF

not done a million miles yet, but i'm trying the 'black stuff' pads and they seem ok, not seen any track action though, just a little spirited road driving!

I ususally use Ferodo road [pads in everything, never had a problem.

atm I've got Halfords pads in the Hillclimber and they've been spot on, very cheap too.

Tried 1144s once, they were so bad when cold I took them out after 50 miles. Still got them somewhere, I wonder if they have a use-by date?

Wil

Fastest 998 mini in the world? 13.05 1/4 mile 106mph

Yeah, my greenstuff ones were spongy for a while and then, just like that, they are great. No problems. I had some EBC ones which were black and had "Kevlar" written on the back, they were good also. I replaced them as a matter of procedure.

Bugger off, I'm getting there.

I use green stuff, i tried to bed them in as per normal, all was going well but when i had to do an emergancy stop they just faded away!!!

After that tho they were grate and i still use um to this day!!

i had some green stuff pads and they were crap, i found everytime i drove i had to press the pedal whilst moving to get some heat into them before they became any good.

then i did a track day where they were incredible and the bite on them for a few days after was great until they went back to being crap.

ive been told that you need to use slotted discs on them to stop them from glazing which seems logical enough, so ive got another set for my 4pots and a set of slotted discs hoping itll improve matters

thats good as i ve just bought some uprated 4 groove S discs

Im using carbon metallic pads on 7.5" discs.
Unbelievable braking with no fade, there recommended to be used with solid discs to keep heat in!!! There are a few negative points mind, they make a bloddy mess of your wheels, eat discs (allthough i havent done the miles to find this out yet). And pricy, about ?58 for the tiny 7.5" type, but not noisy as i was led to believe. I have no servo so the pedal required some pushing with previous pads but now feels like its got a servo with these.

-MINI CLUBMAN 1380 TURBO-

I have used greens in the past, with groved disks, no problem, loved em. I've got new groved disks, and green pads. Now the lathe is up and running in the workshop, I can turn my disks down and get them stuck on.

Team Racing

wayhey.. u got the three pahse sorted?

alex

AlexF

yea, we got a small genny. only 80kva 3 phase, driven by a perkins 6 cylinder turbo diesel engine from a bus! we now have two lathe's and the milling machine hooked up, this weekend I hope to wire up the tig and the mig to it, as they are both dual phases. no more flickering lights!

Team Racing

small!!!!

Jim you never cease to amaze me!!!

I goota come over and see this workshop at some point

alex

AlexF

I'll put some photo's on later for you

Team Racing

Jim do you still want to sell those drop gears or what.......

yes, pulled them out on the weekend for you, just pm'd you

Team Racing