Cold Road pads for AP CP5200 4 pot Front Callipers?

[Zash]

Hi Fellas,

I wonder if you can suggest something as I am pretty confused by subjective descriptions on pad manufacturer websites without any comparable performance information.

Now, I appreciate engineering, and because of this appreciation, have a heavily modified car with AP CP5200 callipers. Unfortunately, being the typical [boring] engineer, I don't drive fast and hardly ever do any "hard" braking, preferring to engine brake instead.

This means that brake pads such as the EBC ceramic Red Stuff pads never heat up and show their true colours, and furthermore, get glazed over from all the light braking.

Of course this means that emergency braking is non existent when needed, as I have to press on the pedal very hard. Certainly the wife will never be able to press this hard, especially in an emergency situation. With a baby on the way, my mind is preoccupied with this issue.

I will only ever be using the pads for spirited driving - no more; and certainly no track.

Would some kind soul please suggest a good brake pad which:

1. works great in the cold and normal average heat range. (I don't really care too much about high heat characteristics).
2. doesn't glaze over easily presumably this might mean that it will have a shorter pad life span, but a longer lifespan would be a huge bonus.
3. doesn't eat away at the rotors harshly.


Price point would be below £150 for 4 pads.

Demon Tweaks website has been pretty good about info on the pads as it brings together on one page some different options, but is by no means exhaustive of available brands:

http://www.demon-tweeks.co.uk/motorsport/racing-ca...

I would appreciate your thoughts on this matter.

Kind regards,
-- Zash

Edited by Zash on Friday 30th October 22:30

Edited by Zash on Saturday 31st October 03:13

[E-bmw]

So if you are doing normal road driving, why are you even looking at race/track focussed pads?

For a start most are illegal on the road and we all know how insurance companies would deal with that information.

Standard Mintex/Pagid are pretty unbeatable on the road.

[stevieturbo]

They may not all fall into your price range, but give Paul a shout at CL.

http://carbonelorrainebraking.co.uk/

Ive used D2500' and AP's own APF404 on my 5200's, they worked fine, but cold they were both pretty crap.

I then tried the CL RC6 which was a huge improvement, and more recently upgraded to the RC8, which actually feels better again, although I did also add the RC6's to the rear this time so that might skew feeling.

The CL's are better everywhere than either of the pads I tried before.

Or if you want a good set of used APF404's lol, I have some here.

[DaveV6]

Give Alyn at AS Performance a call, he'll have a good idea what will work for you and also good prices.

Mintex 1144 and Pagid RS4-2-1 spring to mind as more road biased pads, but Alyn may have other options.