Brakes, ready to do it... Mintex Vs Green stuff?

[overhere]

Found some drilled, groved disks and going to change the fronts, leave the backs as they're ok. The company that supplys the disks also supply Mintex pads, I asked the supplier how they compare to Green Stuff and he said they are every bit as good. But at half the price I have my doubts.

Any comments?

Ta

[Ricardo Bertone]

Mintex are a top brand - go for them.

Ricardo

[brummiewedge]

Would have mintex over EBC, i have performance friction myself.

[tvrbob]

Green Stuff pads are successful because of advertising and market placement. Mintex are good pads.

Buy Mintex.

Try ringing Alan at Questmead tel [phone] I've not been able to find anyone cheaper for Mintex gear

www.questmead.co.uk/

[cln1]

I've used Mintex 1144's for years on my performance cars and I wouldn't use anything else.

Colin.

[David H]

Mintex 1144s

[tvrbob]

My experience of these pads. I'm now running 1155's mostly because I have squeal issues.

1144's - great pad, soft initial bite with nice progressive friction, can squeal on some discs

1155's - better pad, harder surface therefore more responsive, won't squeal, smelly when hot

Mintex Extreme - great pad, excellent initial bite then smooth and progressive, will glaze if used on track

Green Stuff – like Ferodo when warm, normal road pad, poor initial bite when cold

[GreenV8S]

I ran Mintex 1144s for a couple of years, they're very good pads and cheap too, but Tarox (XF), Ferodod (DS2500) and Pagid all make pads that have similar/better temperature performance and imo better pedal feel.

[chris_chim]

Ferodo DS2500 work pretty well on road or track but I suspect they cost a fair bit more than the Mintex pads. Personally I would put on standard discs and spend the savings on better pads.

[TimmyArt]

chris_chim said:

Ferodo DS2500 work pretty well on road or track but I suspect they cost a fair bit more than the Mintex pads. Personally I would put on standard discs and spend the savings on better pads.

very good pads!!! Used them on my 3000M Turbo for hillclimbing - made a big difference over EBC

[andy jb]

I guess you should try them. Although i plan to use ceramic red stuff (small margin over green), i have used EBC green to great effect on a previous track car and found Mintex to be useless although i can't recall which compound this was - indeed i set them alight!!!!

[overhere]

Wow, what a response! Thanks, I'll do a little more pricing up and take the comments and make a decision!

Jack

[plfrench]

The only set of pads I've had disintegrate on me were Green Stuff... Not a particularly good thing for a brake pad to do. It was only cos I was checking them that I noticed. The material had cracked on one pad and some pieces had actually fallen away from the backing plate. Never used them again because of this.

Paul.

[chassis 33]

The current setup I've got (4pot upgrade) are on Mintex, and really squeal at low speed, and after a week of driving the car it's getting annoying, I'm going to check things this weekend so see what's up and potentially swap in a set of Redstuff pads that I run on the racer (same brake setup) to see if there is a difference.

FWIW, I've only really used EBC Redstuff Ceramic and have no issues with them. Like alot of these things everyone has their favourite flavour.

Regards
Iain

[tvrbob]

chassis 33 said:

The current setup I've got (4pot upgrade) are on Mintex, and really squeal at low speed, and after a week of driving the car it's getting annoying,

Iain you should give Alan at Questmead a call, very knowledgeable chap and he helped me out when I had squeal issues with my AP 4 pots. He does both track and road pads.

www.questmead.co.uk/

[chassis 33]

Thanks, although I'm already talking directly with the maufacturers.

Regards
Iain