Front brake upgrade

[bowtiefreak]

Here I go again. I have tried many, many set ups....BUT I may have a winner. Just installed Hawk LTS pads (used them before and they seem to be the best I have used) and EBC slotted rotors.

Just took it out to bed the brakes in. 6-10 stops from 30, normal braking. Then 3 from 40 hard braking. It seemed ok, better than it was.

Pulled the ABS fuse 1/4 mile from the house, got up to 45, stood on it and locked them up. So far I am happy. Going to drive it again after the brakes cool and see how it goes.

A few things I've tried in the past:

1) hawk LTS / power slots. Worked good
2) EBC green stuff / R1 rotors. sucked. Threw the EBC pads in the trash and put hawks back on
3) Crap from Pep boys, ceramics with turned R1 rotors. Left a lot to be desired.
4) GM factory parts. It was OK
5) Hawk pads / EBC slotted. Pleased so far.

Note: this is on the suburban, not the tahoe. It gets attention later.

 

[Chevrolado]

Sweeet! That sounds like it'd be a great combo. Good to know..
I will need to do brakes on my Tahoe sometime in the semi-near future.

 

[retorq]

Locking up the brakes with new pads is the best way to break them in I heard.

 

[bowtiefreak]

I am so happy so far. Going to drive it around tonight to verify. But it felt good.

 

[95escahoe]

Sub for future updates, sounds like a great combo tho

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[SunlitComet]

the hawk sd pads are better. and if any of you have to do brake-ins of the pads do not let it come to a complete stop, hold the brakes down and wait a moment when they are very hot. you will end up with a hotspot on your rotors which will just cause issues down the line. if you have to stop see if you can't roll slowly a bit and when stopped put it in park and make sure service and parking brakes are released.

 

[bowtiefreak]

Hawks website steered me away from the SD. Said not recommended for 1/2 ton.

Was pretty rainy here last night and today. I'll drive it tomorrow

 

[SunlitComet]

brake like i do and you will need sd and 4 years with the same pads and still working great. so great that I have micro-cracked both rotors.

 

[bowtiefreak]

Tahoe needs some brakes....SD it is.

 

[bowtiefreak]

Ok, test drove it last night. Very happy with this set up. I always had good pedal pressure. That with properly adjusted rears and upgraded front seems to be good.

 

[bowtiefreak]

Ok, upgraded the tahoe to the Hawk SD pads. They bite well. This thing really stops. I am a true Hawk fan, match them up with some good slotted rotors and you have a win.

 

[SunlitComet]

hydro boost it and you can demonstrate the physics behind kinetic energy with objects in the cab.

 

[bowtiefreak]

Believe it or not I can just about do it now. Best it has ever stopped. Hydroboost is being thought about more though. So is s disc conversion