Carbotech 1521 vs Hawk Performance HB596F.690 for daily driver?

[malibuguy]

Originally Posted by tmontague

Based on the low price of $180 I'm assuming you were running a pad not rated for the track driving you were doing?

I have about 250km of track driving on my xp10 pads and they are probably around 50-60% left

they sold me the xp10s which I believe is a track dedicated pad, but ok enough to drive to and from the track.

with that car I had a dedicated street pads with matched rotors, and then track pads with matched rotors. Basically when I have a track weekend coming up, Id usually swap the track stuff over a few days prior and bleed the brakes and then I make sure everything works on very spirited touge run (they did throw sparks which was kinda cool) then pack up and head to the track. With any NEW track pad, I go thru a multi evening, highway high speed (over 2wice the speed limit), multi-step bed in process. That car would do 120 on the main straight and throw the anchor out for a 45~ right hook. I NEEDED my brakes to work ;)

the only reason I went with them as all my other track buddies with similar sized cars swore by them. Well I dunno. I used the same calipers as with the poterfields, got new discs to dedicate to them and never looked back. Treated them to the same exact bed in procedure.

now days I dont have the same income vs cost of living delta as I used to. so I only do smaller track events or the occasional autoX