new to forum... squeeky brakes
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I broke mine in the best way possible - stomped on the brakes at 100 MPH at the end of 2 straightaways....over and over and over again during an open track event. I highly recommend it
thorracing271
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I broke mine in the best way possible - stomped on the brakes at 100 MPH at the end of 2 straightaways....over and over and over again during an open track event. I highly recommend it
Could this have "glazed" The rotor and pads and made it worse?
No, I dont believe so. The garage that worked on my car assured me that they bedded the pads in properly for me, as they knew I was going to the track the next day. Im confident in their work in that regard, as they are a racing-centered garage. I had massive brake squeal that first day with the car, but drove it around and continued to break in the pads over the next 24 hours of daily driving. The track took care of the squealing what normally takes 100s of street-driving miles to do, I did in 90 miles at the track. I still get a little squealing at slow speeds, but nothing like when I first drove it.
Whatever you do, DONT do this put brand new pads on your car while you are at the track, do no bedding in or warming up whatsoever, then enter the track at its longest straight-away and get your car up to well over 100 MPH before hitting your first turn, a sharp left. I watched a Lotus Elise driver do that, and when he hit the brakes hard for the turn, the brakes completely locked up sending him into a tire smoking 360 spin. He was lucky there was no wall there, and the caravan of cars behind him all stopped in time.
How awesome is this? I ordered my parts from Protege Garage (which took 2 WEEKS to get in). Go to change my pads and rotors.... wrong pads! Mazda made two different pads and PG is only selling one of them. I called Hawk to confirm and they said even the VIN won't be for sure on which you need. Frickin' Awesome.
See my post below, I put this up a few weeks back:
Correct Hawk HPS Brake Pad Rear Part #???
Can anyone please tell me the correct Hawk High Performance Street rear brake pad part number to run on a 2007 Mazda 3 2.0L i-touring sedan? I am getting conflicting information from various sources.
Most dealers list it as:
HB571F.605
I was told this was incorrect, an error on Hawk's data center, and that the correct pad is:
HB478F.605
I have no idea which is correct now, especially since the HB478F.605 is listed as for model years 2004-2006 only. Can anyone set the record straight?
Follow-up post:
If anyone has the answer to this, please post for future reference.
I ended up getting Hawk Performance Plus pads instead.
SOOOOO, send them back and try the HB478F.605
Really had no choice but to replace the pads this weekend. Looked around and ended up with Brake Best Select from O'Reilly. Seem to be working just fine for what I need. Ultra quiet and plenty of stop. Anybody need a set of Hawk HB748F.605 for the rear? I'll sell 'em for $55 and ship for free. Never installed. PM me.
