pingbling23

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I went to a local shop today to check it out since i had never been. Well i was talking to the guy about needing new brakes. He quoted me $661 for 4 powerslot rotors, 4 hawk hps brake pads, and install. I think this seems like a good deal. What do you all think and how much would it be to go through nissan for oem parts and labor. Thanx

ngcharleshk

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IMHO I would do the brake job myself, its easy and saves you time and money. a pair of EBC slotted rotors will be $178, so 4 of them will be 360 sth, 4 hawks pads probably cost u less than 200 bucks, u save a 100 dollars in total.
you can get the rotors at www.ajusa.com
and hawks hps you can get them wherever u find the best deals

pingbling23

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After you factor in shipping and the fact that i dont have the tools or know how to do this, I think this is a good deal. Thanx for the reply though.

Gary King

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That's not to bad. Those rotors would run you around $450.00 to $500.00, pads around $150.00. If you don't have the tools and aren't to comfortable doing it then it is worth it for sure as long as it is a good shop. May want to consider EBC Green Stuff, they cost a little less but seem to be working better for alot of Z owners.

pingbling23

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UPDATE: I know everyone is wondering whats going on with this lol. Well it turns out the powerslot rotors were on backorder from whoever he was ordering them from so i went ahead and ordered stoptech slotted rotors. I will be getting them put on wednesday. Ill take pics and give a review on how the setup (stoptech rotors and hawk hps pads) works.

KDW2002

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Why green stuff? Aren't red stuff and yellow stuff way better?
I thought yellow was the best, then red, and last green stuff. maybe this is not the case?

Gary King

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Green Stuff are an excellent replacment for stock pads in your daily driver. Red Stuff are more of a race pad. The Yellow Stuff are fairly new, supposed to be great on the track and work well on a daily driver. I'd like to try them out. Has anybody here tried the Yellow Stuff?

ngcharleshk

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I have tried the yellow stuff, and unfortunately, I had to send them back to the factory to get refund for the defective pads. it is a long story, here is how is goes, this is what i wrote to the EBC USA(pls bear with my bad writing)
"Hi,
I have purchased a set of EBC yellow stuff for my 350Z(non-brembo) and
have installed them since last week. After about 200 miles of easy
driving, i went to bed in my brake pads following the procedures on
the guildline sheet in the box. I accelerated the car to 40 mph and
brought the car almost to a stop, I did this for 5 times at one minute
interval as i had been taught in the instructions. I then repeated
this procedure another time after taking a 10 min break to let the
brakes cool off a little bit. However, after the second set of bedding
in, here comes the DRAMA: I was experiencing a little brake fade on
the 4th and 5th times 40-5mph stop, and so i let the brakes cool off a
little(which is not supposed to happen in the first place, isnt it a
race pad, how can it fade so easily?) , and then here comes the worst
thing in the world, i was approaching an intersaction with a red light
about 5 blocks away, and so I gently pressed on the brake just to slow
down my car a little, and all of a sudden the brakes were gone no
matter how hard i pressed on the brake pedal, it wouldnt stop the car
AT ALL, i was so scared to the point where i pulled my ebrake with
BOTH my hands to stop the car, and my ebrakes didnt have enough power
to stop the car immediately. It took me literally 3to 4 blocks to STOP
the car RIGHT before the RED light, and I could have got into a nasty
accident cos cars on the left hand side were coming down from a bypass
which is connected to a freeway exit.
I have read a lot about the EBC yellowstuff before purchasing it, I
have been told that it is a race compound brake pads and can take up
to high temperature heat. It says on the ebcbrakes.com "
Although a full race material and capable of high temperature use with
very good wear life, this new formulation sets a new trend in race
type brake pad compounds. The "bite" from cold is superb which is
uncommon with race materials (normally requiring warm-up) and makes
this a pad which can be safely used on the highway as well as on the
race track."
I dont see the validation on this statement, I havent even brought my
car on the track and i havent done any excessive braking either, but the result is that I have experiecenced the WORST brake fade I ever had.
I am now asking for a full refund for the least, my life was
endangered by the EBC yellowstuff brake pads and I will never be
buying purchasing stuff from EBC if you cannot provide me a refund + a
reasonable answer for the defect on the brake pads, and the irony of
it is all 4 of them were overheated during the bed in process."
However, this could just be ONE separate case, but the lesson i learnt from this is ALWAYS BED in your brakes before any excessive use of the brakes, NOT only to maximize the performance of the brake pads, but it is a way to test for defective pads."
I m posting this because I just want to share this experience with most of you out there, not because I wanna say EBC yellow is bad. My friend has the EBC red on his mazdaspeed protege, I drove his car at the track and the pads didnt fade a bit throughout one whole session.