Hawk Brake Pads

[Tom]

Any folks have these on their Cobra? I put some on and the rears... Man, the rears are going to drive me up a wall with all the noise they make when I brake.

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[Mr. Unknown]

I have them on the front. Seem to stop the same as stock. Dust went up though. And they are kinda loud at low speeds when im pulling into my driveway.

 

[Maniak]

do u have the HPS?

i have those and they make a lot of noise but thats cuz my lazy ass "forgot" to put the brake grease on the sliders and back of the pads. mine make noise even when im not braking, does urs do that?

ive driven jon's car (01cobra) and he has hawk hps up front and his made no noise at all.
u probably just need more grease on there.

 

[Tom]

I have them on the front. Seem to stop the same as stock. Dust went up though. And they are kinda loud at low speeds when im pulling into my driveway.

+1 on the dust.

do u have the HPS?

i have those and they make a lot of noise but thats cuz my lazy ass "forgot" to put the brake grease on the sliders and back of the pads. mine make noise even when im not braking, does urs do that?

ive driven jon's car (01cobra) and he has hawk hps up front and his made no noise at all.
u probably just need more grease on there.

I will check that out. Thanks!

 

[TERMINATED97]

i have them on the front. Seem to stop the same as stock. Dust went up though.

+1

 

[Slow99x]

Some cars make a TON of noise with HPS pads like my 99 vert did and some cars make none at all like my Termi. I don't know what we did different with the 03 but they are perfectly quiet. The 99 was so loud that I was ready to pull them out the next day.

 

[01Cobra]

I have had Hawk HPS on the front with brembo blanks. No noise. I now have EBC yellows on the front with the same brembo blanks. No noise.

On the rear I now have Hawk HPS pads on brembo blanks. I was sure to use the supplied grease to put on the back of the brake pad. No noise at all.

 

[Mystic Terminator]

DTC-70 Front
Blue Rear

 

[FirstPlaceOils]

DTC-70 Front
Blue Rear

your brakes probably leave metal , not dusth:

 

[nytebyte]

I had the Hawk HPS pads when I still had my factory Cobra calipers. In my opinion, they are inferior to the stock pads. They didn't have a very good initial bite and required more pedal pressure to stop the car.

I still have them on the rears, but the metal backing plate is breaking away from the pad which is causing a mild squeak at low speeds.

The HPS pads are junk IMO and you're better off with the factory stock pads. However, they never really dusted any worse than the stock ones. The rears actually dust less than stock.

I prefer to deal with a higher dusting pad which has better performance than to have a clean pad which might not stop the car as well. The pads that came with my Brembo calipers dust a LOT but they feel great. I keep one of those "Swiffer" dusters in the car so I can clean the wheels if they get dirty.

 

[jvert]

I have Hawks HPS pads on all four corners and Brembo slotted discs on all four corners as well and no noise here. But they are a bit dusty. The reason I went with slotted cause they didnt have the brembo blanks for another 2 months and I didnt want to wait that log to drive my car.

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[Maniak]

The HPS pads are junk IMO and you're better off with the factory stock pads. However, they never really dusted any worse than the stock ones. The rears actually dust less than stock.

i have yet to test out how they do when hot but im not unhappy with them for a street pad. nothing will have better bite than the stock pad when cold. from what i gather, the HPS pads are meant for harder street use and not meant to be a stock replacement type pad.

 

[ShelbyGuy]

DTC-70 Front
Blue Rear

how do you like the dtc70 relative to the ht10

and why did i think you switched to pfc01 anyway...maybe that was bruce...

 

[Mystic Terminator]

DTC bites well, no rotor squeak. They do get hot and may crack your rotors. I want to run PF01 on the vette. I think Bruce is running PF.