06-25-2007, 09:57 PM
Sintered Iron is old tech... used to be used on airplane brakes. Up until a few years ago that was as good as it got - the organic material used on most street pads would turn to dust rather quickly on track.
Whats better now? Ceramics, all the brake pad mfr's have gone this route. They have better bite, modulation and rotor friendli-ness along with lower noise and the dust isnt corrosive to paint. The only downside is that when they get hotter than their operationg range, they wear like butter instead of destroying the rotors like Blues.
Whats better now? Ceramics, all the brake pad mfr's have gone this route. They have better bite, modulation and rotor friendli-ness along with lower noise and the dust isnt corrosive to paint. The only downside is that when they get hotter than their operationg range, they wear like butter instead of destroying the rotors like Blues.