March 30, 2008 - I need new brake pads.
Something more suited to the sort of use this car will see. I'm going to run the Performance Friction PFC97 on the front and Carbotech XP8s on the rear. This is a combination that has worked really well on some Flyin' Miata cars, giving very good braking when cold and exceptional braking when hot. The downside is that PFC97 destroys rotors when cold. No worries, they're easy to change out.
The fronts are on order. But for the rear, I had a set of XP8s in the 2001-05 brake size. I also had a set of Porterfield R4S pads in the 1994-02 size, which conforms to the calipers I have in the car. Brandon needed a set of R4S pads and had 2001-05 brackets in the rear of his car. Since my rear brackets are from a Flyin' Miata big brake kit and use the same size rotor, we decided to swap. Parts went flying everywhere, and when we were done we each had new rear brake pads in the size we wanted. It seems very complex in retrospect, but really it makes sense.
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