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Hawk Blue brake pad ramblings

Dave wrote:

>A few weeks/months ago Carl Buckland sang the praises of Hawk Blue brake
>pads for use at the track.  Since I found myself burning up a set of
>MetalMasters every track weekend, I figured I'd give the Blues a try
>to see if I could save some money and increase braking efficiency.
>
>Here's what I found (which tends to confirm what Carl posted):
>
>  - The work REAL good when hot...
>  - Dust is greatly reduced ...
>  - They are loud ...
>
etc.

This mirrors my experience w/Hawk pads on my M3 LWT at Thunderhill exactly
- -- great when hot, not much dust (I wax my wheels before every track
session anyway -- afterwards makes cleaning trivial), and very loud. I
actually ran Blues up front and Y-5's (the autocross pad) in the rear due
to lack of availability of the Blues, and everything worked great.

The only real problem (as Carl has recently alluded (sp?) to) is that they
clang around (esp. in the rear) and make lots of mechanical noise (not just
when braking) -- I, too, had used the red CRC stuff, but had not waited 72
hours (!) -- I will next time.  The clanging was so bad I was black-flagged
early on, and had to assure the track steward that everything was in fact
OK.

This weekend, I'll be racing my 914-4 at Thunderhill w/Cool Carbons
all-around -- I'm interested to see if there's any noticeable difference.


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