Standard or uprated pads sprinting

[Duke Caboom]

I have an ep3 type R which I use for sprinting and occasional hill climbing. It is used in the road from time to time. Standard class so standard disks and calipers.

Front pads need replacing. Usual answer in my experience would be Ferodo 2500s but I'm wondering if ability to perform 100% from cold is more important. Maybe good quality standards would be better? Longevity or ability to resit fade not important.

Also my experience is old, maybe 2500 no longer the go-to?

[mmm-five]

I'd say you're not braking hard enough, long enough, often enough for a proper track pad to be of benefit, so I'd go for either a road pad or a soft track pad.

I have tried other pads over the last 20 years, but keep coming back to Pagid RS29. Others seem to fail in one area or another (great cold bite but poor modulation/consistency; poor bite from cold but great on a UK track, not so much on the Ring; great cold bite, good hot performance, but eats discs).

I use them for road and track in my Z4MC as I like the initial bite from cold and the consistent feel throughout. They seem to work in all conditions for me: commuting, weekend hoons in the Dales, Moors, Lake District, Wales, Scotland, for UK trackdays and 'Ring trips.

[df76]

Had my biggest hillclimb moment after I fitted performance pads to the Civic.. it didn’t fancy stopping. But I now have PBS ProRace pads on the front and they’ve been great / work from stone cold, as long as you can cope with the dust.

[Trev450]

I have sprinted a number of new cars in recent years and never bothered to upgrade the pads. Cars that I have modified then yes they have been uprated, but for roadgoing classes standard works well.

[bergclimber34]

I would doubt you are ever going to go long enough in a speed event to bother with uprated pads, especially as they will be cold for the first few bends and cause issues

[Duke Caboom]

Thanks for all the replies.
Agree - I don't think performance under pressure is an issue..
But I have won and lost by less than a tenth....
So are OEM pads as fast, over a 90 second run?