Green Stuff Pads ,any Good ?

[chris-stdt 0]

I need some new rear pads for my 1.9 gti which is used as a fast road car and will rarely be used on track and was looking at the green stuff pads

 

Are they any good ?

 

Or should i be looking else where as it has 1144 hard mintex pads on but im stuggling to find any .miles ?

[Alastairh 47]

Crap.

 

1144's, Ferrodo Prems all do the job.

 

Al

[chris-stdt 0]

Cheers

 

Il stick with the 1144s as its got them on atm but where the best place to get them ?

 

Thanks

 

Chris

[Tom Fenton 1,541]

Ditto, Green stuff are crap, and I have bought them personally and tried them.

[pablo 0]

anything by EBC is crap

[Anthony 1,002]

To be honest, standard pads will be fine on the rear - I just run Ferodo Premiers at around £12 a pack, and they seem to cope with the abuse just fine. Remember that the rear brakes really don't do a great deal of work compared to the fronts.

 

As for Green Stuff, in my experience they're extremely inconsistant leading me to think that EBC either frequently change the compound or that they have a bit of a quality control issue. You'll get one set that will give good bite, resist fade and last well, and then the next set will fade worse than standard pads, and the next set will leave deposits on the disks leading to juddering and vibrations. It really does seem to be a lottery.

 

Whilst I've not personally used them, I've heard quite good things about hotter EBC compounds like Yellow Stuff on the front.

[GLPoomobile 958]

Had you entered "greenstuff" in the search, you'd have only got 2 pages of results

[pablo 0]

probably done "green stuff" so got anything with green or stuff in it.

[chris-stdt 0]

probably done "green stuff" so got anything with green or stuff in it.

 

Yer thats what i did

 

Silly me

[hengti 2]

batten down the hatches; it's another GreenStuff thread

 

std on the rears'll be fine, as already said

 

 

i've recently tried RedStuffs and wasn't keen (poor cold bite); might chance my arm with Yellows at some point. all of the performance alternatives are silly money on the current motor

[pablo 0]

found the yellows poor on my 182 clio, DS2500s however were superb. And not much dearer.

 

As for rears I used to run £13 Apecs on the back of my track elise. lasted ages.

[buchanan84 1]

my mate has yellowstuffs on his seat leon cupra which seam to work quite well with fast road driving

[hengti 2]

found the yellows poor on my 182 clio, DS2500s however were superb. And not much dearer.

 

As for rears I used to run £13 Apecs on the back of my track elise. lasted ages.

 

that's what i've got actually (well, a 172) - lots of people seem to suggest that the yellows are stronger from cold but guess it's subjective. can i ask what you made of them yourself? cold bite's important to me, as it's predominantly a road car

 

the DS2500s are £100/set on the Clio whereas the EBCs seem to be around £70, which is enough as it is

miss the 205's cheap ways with stuff like this

[philfingers 5]

I took the 1144's out of mine and the pad fell off the backing. I won't be buying anymore. I have a set of Pagid RS4-2 in the back and they're so good compared to the Greenstuff (old set i had kicking around) in the front that i can lock the back in the dry with the bias fully to the front. Need a decent set for the front really. Carbon Lorraine are supposed to be good, but noisy and hard on discs. I can live with that tho,

 

phil

[Cloverleaf 1]

I have 1144's in the front of my 106, really like them for fast road, good bite, did pretty well on track too.

 

I also had 1144's on my EVO which were great on the road, not brilliant on the track.

 

Had 1155's in my 309 which were really good on track, not used them on the road but found the bite from cold on track was fine.

 

Now I have CL RC6's on my 309 (Brembo calipers), not tried them on track yet (they'll have their first outing in 2 weeks), but on my short test drive on the road they bite really well from cold. As Phil has said, I think they'll destroy discs. But the RC5's might be OK for your intended use.

 

A mate from work had greenstuff in his 182, faded within 2 laps at Cadwell!! Before this he had std pads and lasted about 4 or 5 laps at Donnington (hard on brakes) before fade. He's now got 1155's, so will have a good comparison on his next outing to cadwell in 2 weeks.

 

Basically, make from that what you will but I see it as this.....

 

If the braking system isn't particularly stressed in std form (light car, decent enough brakes, std ish power/tyres) then 1144's are a good all rounder. Anything other than that or serious track abuse get a racier compound.

[HERMAN 33]

My local motor factors can get me 1144's for £38+ vat I might ask him if he could get several sets and sell them on here would you be interested? I could also get the price for 1155's. Just go on the mintex web site and look up your pad number then just add 1144 or 1155 to the end part number.

Regards

Neil

[cooper001 0]

I ran 1155's on my 205 rally car doing 25 mile tarmac stages up in otterburn and it was running standard pads on the back. These would last me 4 or 5 rallies. This was in a XS though but i would run standards in the back as you'll have to be doing to be doing some hard driving to get temperatures up in them.

[Batfink 201]

carbone lorraine have a new pad compound which is not noisy (RC5+). It is not as aggressive as the RC6 and is aimed at lightweight racecars and trackday/fast road. These are impossible to fade really and should give similar wear to the mintex range.

[SurGie 54]

I like to see how they work on a fast road/track 205, any one tried them ?

[shalmaneser 26]

my greenstuff pads are s*it. Need to get some decent pads actually thanks for reminding me!

[Batfink 201]

I like to see how they work on a fast road/track 205, any one tried them ?

 

They have been only out a month so not many people have tried them. Most have experience of the superseeded rc5 and also the rc6

[joshsnoad 2]

hey i know this isnt about greenstuff brake pads but im thinking of fitting OMP brake pads and discs, front and rear, to my 1.9 gti.

 

anyone got any experience of them??

 

cheers josh

[CaptainK 11]

I know people who have used Greenstuff in the past and say their rubbish. So I got myself some Redstuff for my FTO. OMG how rubbish are they? Really weak stopping power and when they are cold I may as well just stick my foot out the door and push on the floor as it'd stop me quicker.

 

Thankfully I've just bought some Wilwood calipers which came with some Yellowstuff pads. Once fitted I'm sure it'll be better.

 

Personal recommendation is to use Ferodo DS2500 which I have on my 205 GTi6. Awesome breaking ability, even when cold.

[richsmells 2]

1155s on the 306 are a bit squealy at low speed but have awesome bite from cold. I don't often hoon so fade isn't really an issue.

Edited November 10, 2009 by richsmells

[CaptainK 11]

Awesome breaking ability, even when cold.

OMG I just noticed I misspelt and did my own pet hate - "break" and "brake". I apologise for this.