does anyone here use raybestos brake pads? i'm looking into different brands of pads because the stock pads aren't really that great for the way my GTA rides. also, if not these brakes, what are you guys using in your cars?

-GTAman

raybestos makes very good friction material, brakes and clutches. don't believe i have any of their parts installed on anything of mine right now.

Performance Friction z-rated pads on all four corners, excellent stopping power and little or no brake dust. Best of all a reasonable price.

i have the raybestos Brutestop pads and pro stop rotors and rear drum shoes and adjustors and springs and all that run stuff. basiclly ive redone my brakes with nothing but raybestos parts and well everything works pretty damn good. just have to change my pads soon (had then on for a good year or so).
also i work at pepboys so got all my parts right there

excellent feedback! thanks alot, guys :hail:. BTW, where did you get ur pads from?...besides pepboys (thanks timz2882!).

theres autozone, theres the little parts stores, im sure performance shops carry pads, u can get the from jegs.

alright! now THAT's what i like to hear! i LOVE AUTOZONE...R+S straus isn't that bad either.

ok i'm openning this thread up again because i finally got around to buying new pads due to the need of new calipers up front so i decided to do everything new and improved (minus earl's steel lines, for now). i picked up a front pair of reybestos ceramics PN# PGD154QS. anyone riding with these? like them?

-GTAman

myself I use hawp HPS

Napa ceramix awsome stopping power and no noise or dust.

ive recently put Hawks HPS pads on and earls ss brake lines. good stuff

you can go with what you want
but for me I am not fond of generic stuff

and to me thigns like nap/shucks or whatever offering there own line of brakes would kinda scare me.
I preferably like to use something I know has worked well and can trust to keep on working


I will be honest the hps pads do provide a little dust and on a cold winter morning at around 20* outside the first stop I make does need a little more pedal effort with them being cold


but as far as fade goes after replacing the brakes I bled teh fluid
have yet to get fade even after going DOWNHILL on a nice curver mountain road where the speed is about 25-35 but hitting speeds of around 80-100mph
I was on the brakes most the whole trip since it was a lot of turns
no fade

my previous brakes even though the fluid was still good suffered when doing that from brake fade

Napa pads are made by raybestos but made to better standards for napa. They are used by alot of the top shops like procare,firestone,meineke, bob summeral and most of the gm dealers and ford.