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RE: Brake Pads

To: "'Robert Glover'" <rob@f-body.org>, "'Chris McCann'" <cjmccan@ilstu.edu>
Subject: RE: Brake Pads
From: "Kevin Stevens" <Kevin_Stevens@Bigfoot.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 18:45:09 -0700
> I know two people with f-bodies who run the SSF pads and like them.  I
> have them on the front of my 98 Z28 and don't really feel any
> difference
> over the sock pads.  However, I have the Panther pads on my
> Corvette, and while they do squeal when good and warm, and they
> dust like mad, HOLY COW DO THOSE THINGS STOP!!!
>
> Rob

Yeah, they stop.  I went through a set of Panthers in six autox events.
Correct that, I went halfway through the left hand pad, and through the
right hand pad into my rear rotor.  My fault for not checking, but I never
expected to get six autox events and maybe 4K street miles from a brake pad.
I have no idea why the right pad wore twice as fast as the left; the car
stopped straight and the stock pads showed no unusual wear pattern.  I need
to call Carbotech and figure out what happened, but I'm not putting those
pads back on the car.  YMMV.

KeS


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