Brake pad recommendations?

[razorlab]

Unfortunately, the 999's cant be ordered anymore.
Another local and I tried earlier this summer, and Project Mu is discontinuing them.

Notification: Project Mu Halt to New orders - RHDJapan BlogRHDJapan Blog

Side note, another pad combo that we found works pretty well on track (for us at least) are the EBC RPX front pads with EBC Blue NDX rear pads.

Hawk DTC60's are also only $180 from Tire Rack. I've been using them and they work for the power I have. Could I use some more pad for bigger tracks with my power, could I use a pad that doesn't dust like the Sahara? Probably, but for $180, they work just fine.

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[i3igpete]

Unfortunately, the 999's cant be ordered anymore.
Another local and I tried earlier this summer, and Project Mu is discontinuing them.

Looks like rhdjapan is already showing theyre out, guess I'll be the guinea pig and roll the dice with blackhawkjapan

https://www.blackhawkjapan.com/prod...T5zvPE0FWQManK4EFi_DGqRTzkjYAGFxva7StjcJvmNAm

 

[PaulFRDE]

Unfortunately, the 999's cant be ordered anymore.
Another local and I tried earlier this summer, and Project Mu is discontinuing them.

Notification: Project Mu Halt to New orders - RHDJapan BlogRHDJapan Blog

Side note, another pad combo that we found works pretty well on track (for us at least) are the EBC RPX front pads with EBC Blue NDX rear pads.

EBC is not so liked in a lot of forum, including this one, and it's often deserved.
But I tried the RP1 and RPX in front lately, the RP1 is endurant but the bite is too low on our stock calipers, the RPX has a ton a bite and endurance, much more than OEM. The RPX are also dusty and squeal like pigs in the street for those who care.

Bluestuff in our rear why not, but I find them quite expensive for meh quality after all

 

[mojo_jojo77777]

Hawk DTC60's are also only $180 from Tire Rack. I've been using them and they work for the power I have. Could I use some more pad for bigger tracks with my power, could I use a pad that doesn't dust like the Sahara? Probably, but for $180, they work just fine.

I've used DTC-60's in my old s2000, and did like them for the price (mainly since I used to have lots of friends in community that ran with NASA, and would give me their vouchers for free pads since they all preferred Carbotechs/G-locs), but dont want to run them in Supra since I average 1 track weekend a month (sometimes more), but also put around 22k miles per year on my supra, so I'm ok with the tradeoff of a "hybrid" that I dont have to swap back and forth with, like I did with the EBC RPX for a few months.

EBC is not so liked in a lot of forum, including this one, and it's often deserved.
But I tried the RP1 and RPX in front lately, the RP1 is endurant but the bite is too low on our stock calipers, the RPX has a ton a bite and endurance, much more than OEM. The RPX are also dusty and squeal like pigs in the street for those who care.

Bluestuff in our rear why not, but I find them quite expensive for meh quality after all

Yeah, EBC definitely gets a lot of hate on multiple forums. I used Green Stuff a decade ago or so, and hated them.

I ran Bluestuff in rear because RPX at time for rear was out of stock. Price point, was even cheaper than the current Project Mu Club Racers that Im currently using. After using the blues in rear, I actually like the braking bias with the staggered compounds.

My only gripe with RPX is the dust. I dont mind the noise, but hated that the dust would behave like DTC60s and bake into car/wheel paint.

I'd actually prefer the RPX/Blue setup over the club racers on track, but I'm willing to sacrifice to be able to daily drive the supra without swapping pads over after a track weekend.

 

[Evolution]

I finally found a pad I really like and now I cant get it anymore. This is the worst news I have had in a while.... Back to Hawk I guess.

 

[FLtrackdays]

Unfortunately, the 999's cant be ordered anymore.
Another local and I tried earlier this summer, and Project Mu is discontinuing them.

Notification: Project Mu Halt to New orders - RHDJapan BlogRHDJapan Blog

Side note, another pad combo that we found works pretty well on track (for us at least) are the EBC RPX front pads with EBC Blue NDX rear pads.

Wut

I finally found a pad I really like and now I cant get it anymore. This is the worst news I have had in a while.... Back to Hawk I guess.

I’m down to only 2 sets of 999s. Be curious to what y’all find that will be closer to Hawk DTC70s or the former P mu 999s. After I burn thru the ones I got, I‘ll likely try the non endurance (cheaper) CSG pad for the fronts only

 

[mojo_jojo77777]

Wut



I’m down to only 2 sets of 999s. Be curious to what y’all find that will be closer to Hawk DTC70s or the former P mu 999s. After I burn thru the ones I got, I‘ll likely try the non endurance (cheaper) CSG pad for the fronts only

Not sure about if they are on Hawk DTC70 level, but I'm curious on Endless N35s as alternative to the Pmu 999

 

[razorlab]

DTC70's aren't available for our front calipers, so no need to compare.

 

[Rocksandblues]

Wonder how the OP is doing?

 

[Kenn]

I definitely liked the performance of the RPX/Blue setup and the fact that the bedding process isn't as crazy as the Club Racers. Hoping once the CRs are finally bedded in, the performance is what I'm looking for.

I was warned about the process but it's kind of insane, one whole track day and they aren't even bedded in yet. Am i braking hard enough? Probably not. Did it shake some teeth loose? Probably.

 

[i3igpete]

I’m down to only 2 sets of 999s.

Blackhawk japan said theyre going to get a batch of 999s at the end of September. Fingers crossed

 

[DC5UPRA]

Looks like rhdjapan is already showing theyre out, guess I'll be the guinea pig and roll the dice with blackhawkjapan

https://www.blackhawkjapan.com/prod...T5zvPE0FWQManK4EFi_DGqRTzkjYAGFxva7StjcJvmNAm

Are those the right ones? I thought our code was DB42 and saw Z723 posted before.

 

[razorlab]

Are those the right ones? I thought our code was DB42 and saw Z723 posted before.

You are correct. Z723

https://www.blackhawkjapan.com/prod...X_y1h6Wo8fqzAeOXvgfkjy2HXT0_UZ3yZjXmlFgZkFTbY

 

[DC5UPRA]

You are correct. Z723

https://www.blackhawkjapan.com/prod...X_y1h6Wo8fqzAeOXvgfkjy2HXT0_UZ3yZjXmlFgZkFTbY

Bummer as those had an add to cart option

 

[spaghettihoes]

I definitely liked the performance of the RPX/Blue setup and the fact that the bedding process isn't as crazy as the Club Racers. Hoping once the CRs are finally bedded in, the performance is what I'm looking for.

I was warned about the process but it's kind of insane, one whole track day and they aren't even bedded in yet. Am i braking hard enough? Probably not. Did it shake some teeth loose? Probably.

If you reused your rotors with a different pad material previously you'll keep getting shudder. I ended up needing a new set of rotors to bed in the club racers before I got them to work properly.

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