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I just made a few calls to performance brakes distributors, which pointed me to http://www.porterfield-brakes.com/ According to Porterfield, production for C43 pads is scheduled for Feb/March 2018. They will be offering street/mild-track compound. By then, they also should be able to custom make any compound upon request. Price range should be around $170-130 and obviously higher for custom orders. I also spoke to Ferodo, they don't have any immediate plans to make any pads for the C43.
I just made a few calls to performance brakes distributors, which pointed me to http://www.porterfield-brakes.com/ According to Porterfield, production for C43 pads is scheduled for Feb/March 2018. They will be offering street/mild-track compound. By then, they also should be able to custom make any compound upon request. Price range should be around $170-130 and obviously higher for custom orders. I also spoke to Ferodo, they don't have any immediate plans to make any pads for the C43.
That is awesome..thank you so much, thats a huge help
EBC UK is working on pads for the C450/C43. No ETA yet.
Also looks like we have some aftermarkets coming to the market, however I would trust the mercedes pads for the track.
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EBC isnt too bad...red or green stuff?
stock pads are generally designed for quiet (no squeal), less brake dust and rotor/pad life.. track pads arent.. makes track pads handle the wear and tear and heat much better
I went through a stock set of VW Gti pads in 1 session at summit point shenendoah (the backing caught on fire)
stock pads are generally designed for quiet (no squeal), less brake dust and rotor/pad life.. track pads arent.. makes track pads handle the wear and tear and heat much better
I went through a stock set of VW Gti pads in 1 session at summit point shenendoah (the backing caught on fire)
You kidding me. The Mercedes brake pads are complete opposite of everything you said. Noisy, crazy brake dust and crap brake life. But they work really well on the track. Few of the Torontonians here took their cars to the track with stock brakes and had no issues pushing their cars.
Always good to bead in/burnish pads... my C is my daily and the C43 will see some track duty, I also have a corvette which is my primary track rat ...have to burnish pads and rotors twice a year as I go through 2 sets in 6 track days lol
With cooling ducts and all, I went through a set of race pads in 1 day. But that was a 4hrs of on-track day (8 - 30minutes sessions), I filled gas 7 times that day, started the session with a full tank, down to a little over 1/4 by the end of each session. That's why I won't trust stock pads, Porsche is the only company that has OEM track-worthy pads.
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