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^^^^It really depends on what you want. Track, Dual Purpose, Street Pads - all have different characteristics. Performance vs noise vs dust. See these threads:
^^^^OK, not going to argue! There are pads and there are pads. I have no frapping idea what pads you are talking about. Again, IMHO, the stock Brembos are very powerful and with the proper pads can be used on the track and the street. IMHO, there are many things that would benefit the GSF far more than replacing the already powerful brakes with another set of powerful brakes.
I'm thrilled you're happy with your pretty green brakes, but with equivalent pads your GSF will not "stop" any better than stock. You have bigger brakes than the track oriented Corvette ZR1. The ZR1 comes with brakes with the same specs as the stockers on the GSF, except for the ceramic rotors, which you do not have.
Lou
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^^^^OK, not going to argue! There are pads and there are pads. I have no frapping idea what pads you are talking about. Again, IMHO, the stock Brembos are very powerful and with the proper pads can be used on the track and the street. IMHO, there are many things that would benefit the GSF far more than replacing the already powerful brakes with another set of powerful brakes.
I'm thrilled you're happy with your pretty green brakes, but with equivalent pads your GSF will not "stop" any better than stock. You have bigger brakes than the track oriented Corvette ZR1. The ZR1 comes with brakes with the same specs as the stockers on the GSF, except for the ceramic rotors, which you do not have.
Edit: Just saw you said those were 8 piston calipers. I'd still say that there are diminished returns.
Lou
Agreed, GSF comes with some impressive brakes already. Brake pads more or so change the feel of braking but stopping distance is more related to the tires than anything else. -
The only true way to test brake performance is to take your car on a track and run several laps with hard braking.
changing 6 piston calipers to another 6 piston calipers seems like a side grade to me. Brembos are tried and true.
but other than that they do look pretty cool though
You all have great opions I didn’t change them because I didn’t like the brembos I had the R1s on my F sport for less than 1k miles so I decided to put them on my GSF . But I was going to keep the Brembs but the wheels you see on my car wouldn’t clear the brembos . I like both bbk
I got the Tom's performance brakes and it works well on the track. Not sure if there is more braking power, but I feel like even after 7 laps the brake power doen't fade, where I think the stock brakes did a little.
