Best brakes?

[SeanDev]

Old thread but figure I would throw a few additions in here.

I have had the powerstops on 2 different of my person SHO's both of them had heat warping and heat spotting. First set shook really bad after 10k. Second was starting to shake but no clue how they were treated on the second car.

Both cars ended up getting R1 rotors and pads and never had any issues with them. Ended up doing the Schwartz Engineering Caliper upgrade with the same R1 rotor and still doing solid!

I've never owned powerstop , in 2018 I installed R1 on my interceptor sedan. 60,000 miles later and all I've done is change pads, I beat that car to death. No warp, even the anti-corrosion has held up. Glad to see others make the switch to them. One of the first things I changed out when I aquired my SHO.

 

[SHOdded]

the PP pads are a good choice. you can look into raybestos or bendix or even powerstop police package pads (z37 i think).

bpd likes the EBC Yellowstuff and the Wilwoods.

I have tested the EBC Orangestuff on my Edge (which is brick-ier than the SHO), and can say the OrangeStuff satisfies. BUT it needs GOOD rotors to go with - G3500 material would be preferable. using stock calipers that came with the vehicle in 2007 lol.

powerstops did not make much difference to me but i only had z23 pads to work with - drilled/slotted rotors. dont expect the rustproofing to hold.

 

[shoblock]

My powerstops still work well after 45,000 highway miles

 

[Kevin81]

Ive ran power stop on other vehicles, well worth the money. Ive had good success with "cheaper" options such as max brakes online.. oddly on my SRT8 with the most expensive brakes ever, were also the noisiest when I replaced them with expensive brembo oem, with that I actually had to apply a good amount of brake squeel paste to the BACK of the pads that eliminates harmonic sounds from little vibrations against the caliper. Then the sound dissapeared.

Good brakes are noisy.