What brake pads have a very good cold bite and low dust?

[gtical]

Hello
Looking for opinions on what brake pads provides a very good cold initial bite along with low dusting. This is for a honda s2000. Currently have oem pads on the car and they dont a good cold bite at all. I just want something that grabs well immediately.

 

[shortyb]

Uh, none. No free lunch. I wash my wheels way more often and enjoy superb braking with semi-metallics .

 

[slacktide_bitog]

You might like the Akebono ASP, but they seem to have been discontinued.

EBC Ultimax2/Blackstuff is probably the best you're going to get in terms of bite without extreme dust, though the first few stops will make more dust due to a special coating they have to help bed them in.

Some people also like Powerstop Z17 pads

All pads have been reformulated recently due to legislation regarding copper in brake pads.

 

[edyvw]

Hello
Looking for opinions on what brake pads provides a very good cold initial bite along with low dusting. This is for a honda s2000. Currently have oem pads on the car and they dont a good cold bite at all. I just want something that grabs well immediately.

None.
There are some that dust more than others, but they all dust if you want a quick reaction with a strong bite throughout pedal travel.
Some companies like Toyota started to overboost brakes, BUT, while having a quick bite, once you step in it, you can feel that brake performance does not resemble the bite feeling unless you really start pressing. At that point, resistance becomes an obstacle.

 

[scrllock]

Hello
Looking for opinions on what brake pads provides a very good cold initial bite along with low dusting. This is for a honda s2000. Currently have oem pads on the car and they dont a good cold bite at all. I just want something that grabs well immediately.

The "solution" is carbon-ceramic rotors, but unless you like $20k brake jobs (maybe 10k on a cheap taiwanese BBK), it's not realistic.
Cold bite on iron rotors means dust. Ceramic pads like mentioned above do not have good cold bite.

Personally I just find a good wheel cleaner and bust out the power washer.

 

[chris719]

The only low dust pads that even had close to good bite I have tried are the Brembo NAO pads, but it's hard to be certain because the friction material is probably tweaked for each application.

 

[wings&wheels]

I'd stick w/ OE/OEM, but if you are after lower (not low) dust and cold bite, EBC Yellow would be my choice.

 

[Rust_Belt_Pete]

EBC yellow is high dust

 

[edyvw]

I'd stick w/ OE/OEM, but if you are after lower (not low) dust and cold bite, EBC Yellow would be my choice.

I don’t know which version of Yellow you used, but I used them few years back on track, and holy moly dust.

 

[wings&wheels]

I don’t know which version of Yellow you used, but I used them few years back on track, and holy moly dust.

On a Porsche, but non track use. I found them lower dust, not low, but acceptable considering what they are and I probobly should have expanded on that. My recommendation is for cold bite and lower dust...for just low dust there are many better options. I've never shopped only for low dust. I like the EBC's cold bite in general, their Greens are great for their application.

 

[D60]

What girlfriend is smoking hot, doesn't age, doesn't wrinkle, doesn't put on weight and can rebuild a transmission as easily as she can cook a gourmet meal?

 

[edyvw]

On a Porsche, but non track use. I found them lower dust, not low, but acceptable considering what they are and I probobly should have expanded on that. My recommendation is for cold bite and lower dust...for just low dust there are many better options. I've never shopped only for low dust. I like the EBC's cold bite in general, their Greens are great for their application.

Ah I think yours are then this new compound they have.
I used some 12 years ago their Yellow STuff on VW CC on the street, and it was dust galore. On BMW i use dtheir pads maybe 3yrs ago. But I think it was an old formula, as they were dusting like crazy, and the cold bite was not really good.

 

[PMT133]

Ebc yellow may have been the worst dusting pads I ever put on a daily... but holy hell did they bite well for what they were.

Carbon ceramic in general don't have a good cold bite. Some are way better than others though.

 

[Rust_Belt_Pete]

I drive like a grandma but my cold bite on my Akebono ASP makes me happy.
But for me cold bites means winter weather early in the morning.
Or did you mean cold bite as in first lap or so in the track?

 

[Bailey28]

I am having a great time installing Raybestos EHT brake pads on everything in the driveway. Very little dust, and they grab and stop better than any of the OEM pads they replaced. They are made of a hybrid of a metallic and ceramic composition according to Raybestos.

 

[50yr Street Mech]

Been using Advics lately. Great cold bite, even on a plain iron rotor. Not much dust as long as you don't beat on them. The LEAST dusty pad I've used were Wagner Thermoquiets. But the stopping grab, cold or hot, was terrible. They didn't last long either.

 

[gtical]

I drive like a grandma but my cold bite on my Akebono ASP makes me happy.
But for me cold bites means winter weather early in the morning.
Or did you mean cold bite as in first lap or so in the track?

Just regular driving.
I have track pads that bite great in the cold but dust severely

 

[randomhero439]

Powerstop Z23 and Hawk Performance Ceramic fit your needs. Powerstop is inexpensive on Rock Auto. I have the Z23 on my Audi, and they definitely bite harder than the Akebono ceramics on my BMW, though they produce slightly more dust.

 

[Andyd95]

Been using Advics lately. Great cold bite, even on a plain iron rotor. Not much dust as long as you don't beat on them. The LEAST dusty pad I've used were Wagner Thermoquiets. But the stopping grab, cold or hot, was terrible. They didn't last long either.

I really like the Advics pads as well, better cold bite than the Akebono pads, low dust, and never had a single noise complaint with them.

 

[willbur]

Powerstop Z23 and Hawk Performance Ceramic fit your needs. Powerstop is inexpensive on Rock Auto. I have the Z23 on my Audi, and they definitely bite harder than the Akebono ceramics on my BMW, though they produce slightly more dust.

Akebono's are weak stoppers, IMO. I avoid them even to the point of using wood blocks or Fred Flintstone's feet as pads LOL