🔧 Technical Replacing Brake Pads and Rotors: Should You Turn or Buy New?

[The Beast]

GLADIATOR give the man a quote on painting his calipers

 

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

The reds are ceramic. They are a street pad.
Yellows are more of a track pad.

The only reason I went with the red stuff pads was because I wanted to keep the rotors and pads the same manufacturer.
Guess that decision stuck me in the arse

 

[Chet Donnelly]

I do Duralast Gold rotors/pads on our daily drivers and have been happy with them. Just did the rears on my F-150 a few weeks ago.

 

[S8ER01Z]

I kept OE on the Hellcat as I don’t want degraded performance. The Z28 gets the cheapest shit I can find (usually at AutoZone ?)

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

There's basically no options to buy just the front rotors. Drilled/slotted is completely unnecessary but it's cheaper? Weird

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08141167X/?tag=tcg21-20

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Z5M29XQ/?tag=tcg21-20

fuck shitazon

rockauto with the 5% cheaper with shipping. $241 shipped. same part number

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

$231....plus powerstop rebate:

https://www.rockauto.com/Images/CurrPromoFiles/PS_MAY_MIR_2023_FINAL.pdf

 

[CMNTMXR57]

Many of the aftermarket brands make better options for your Hellcat's Brembos too S8ER01Z

Brembo is used by many manufacturers on their vehicles. I think I am using Powerstop or EBC (I can't remember), on the Caddy's Brembo's.

 

[S8ER01Z]

CMNTMXR57 I know some options likely do better but the few results I’ve seen posted (powerstop specifically) left the impression that it wasn’t worth the money to get less brake dust and worse brake performance. I would have to see some definitive results before I would take the chance.

 

[Shawn1112]

CMNTMXR57 I know some options likely do better but the few results I’ve seen posted (powerstop specifically) left the impression that it wasn’t worth the money to get less brake dust and worse brake performance. I would have to see some definitive results before I would take the chance.

The OE pads dust sooooo fucking bad. On both my HC and TH within a week I swapped out for EBC pads (red iirc).
Not sure of your driving habits, but I drove both of those like all my vehicles, hard af. I thought they were comparable to OE for stopping power

 

[CMNTMXR57]

Yea, I could take the car around the block and need to wipe down the wheels again again there was so much dust. Whichever I got last (powerstop or EBC), for a street compound, it's no where near as bad. Obviously the performance was better being a fresh set.

 

[Fish]

The reds are ceramic. They are a street pad.
Yellows are more of a track pad.

The only reason I went with the red stuff pads was because I wanted to keep the rotors and pads the same manufacturer.
Guess that decision stuck me in the arse

You go to their site and it says to use bluestuff for track. Their marketing is all over the place.

 

[S8ER01Z]

Shawn1112 I would say… mildly aggressive but my 5.8mpg average seems to be in disagreement with me. ?

 

[sktchy]

At work on stuff that matters I use the Bosch power stop pads and good parts store rotors and don't have issues.

My own stuff it's getting ebay slotted rotors and the Detroit axle carbon fiber pads. You can't tell me they suck when they put up with towing and braking in hills without problems or brake fade.

That being said I've seen a few delaminated pads we've had put on at other shops where they've cheaped out among mismatched clips (keeping the pads from sliding), rotors (only contacting half the pad) antiseize on the caliper slide pins (this gets sticky and then the caliper won't move correctly, I like silicon paste or even dielectric) etc and it's more frequent than what you'd really think so your already ahead by doing it at home and saving the ridiculous markup retail chains see off this stuff and neglect to fix because it brings repeat business quicker.