I’ve used Performance Friction and Hawk with excellent results in the past.
Here’s the V-Blog I mentioned. It’s well done.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ8O2tJOGLE
The host, Jason Fensken (the Engineering Explained guy) is doing quite a job on YouTube, and I’ve found his commentary to be factual and generally correct.
Dolph
DE AD0LF
Wheeling, West Virginia
1977 26’ ex-PalmBeach
Howell EFI & EBL, Reaction Arms, Manny Transmission
“The Aluminum and Fiberglass Mistress"
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> Looks like lots of different series. I think we would need to pick the one he is suggesting to evaluate. My personal experience is OEM type pads are
> best all around. Some may be better at not fading on long mountain grades, but I use gears in that situation. Brakes are only applied prevent engine
> overspeed. As a recent real world example I bought basic OEM metallic Monroe pads for my 300K mile XJ fronts. The old pads still had many months of
> service life remaining when removed. I was surprised to find they were Performance Ceramics installed by PO. The new cheaper pads stop with much
> less pedal effort. At the other extreme end the Performance Ceramic might he better but not in daily driving.
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> John Lebetski
> Woodstock, IL
> 77 Eleganza II
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