Hawk 02-06 RSX Type-S / 00-09 S2000 Ceramic Brake Pads: Front Reviews

I have had these pads installed for a little over 3 months, did some light AutoX with them and they were good, but today I did road racing - They are NOT meant for road racing. They are OK at the beginning, but then heat up and lose effectiveness. Again GREAT DD pad, just not for the track.

I have had these pads for about 1000 miles now. They seem to have finally just bed in completely to my new rotors maybe about 200 miles ago. They are very good brakes stopping is very smooth, very controllable. Now that I have these I can see how much the oem brake power varied with speed. These are better when they heat up as in if your stopping from a 65 to zero you can notice they require less pressure quicker than oem. The brake dust is a lot more tolerable. It's more of a brown dust as opposed to black. Seems easier to remove. Definitely not non-existent. They are very quiet. They make kind of a whirling sound when stopping at high speeds but that's probably my rotor/pad combo. I kinda like the sound anyway. At low speeds I can hear pretty much unnoticeable grind. This is probably just the fact that their ceramic they all do that. Neither of these sounds I had with the oem but not a problem at all. These also seem to jitter slightly. I'm workin on that. Overall the pros outweigh the cons. I would definitely recommend these.

I got these pads for both front and rear along with power slotted rotors. I got them because they produces less dust than other pads. only complain i have is they do not bite very well until it gets some heat. but this does that for only 5min of driving or less. i like them~!!