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Bought Carbotech XP10 fronts and XP8 rears recently and couldn't be happier. The improvement over the stock pads is massive!! And these don't act like "race" pads, i.e. some race pads are only good only in certain temperature ranges, squeal like crazy, lots of corrosive dust, etc. These have very light squeal during low speed street stops (although not every time) and definitely not more dust than stock, in fact, they seem to dust less!! These feel great as soon as you hit the street and don't seem to be eating my rotors, they are said to be much gentler on rotors than say HP Blues and most definitely have less dust/non corrosive dust.
The first thing you notice is the excellent initial bite, which is lacking in the stockers. This VICE GRIP feel gives you confidence that huge braking is ready whenever you need it, and they deliver on the promise, these are pads to throw your passenger into the windshield.
Whereas the stock Supra was comparable to (actually better than most) exotics in its day, these pads with the stock rotors + braided steel lines + good brake fluid and sticky street tires probably put the Supra in league with some of the better big $$$ exotics of TODAY, they are that good. I will try to get some G-Tech braking numbers at some point.
I'm looking forward to road racing them soon, I have a friend with the same brake setup as me that recently ran them at Road Atlanta and he was highly impressed. I noticed his lap times were several seconds faster as well, no doubt the pads were part of that. He was able to outbrake a C6 Z06 with upgraded pads (I believe Hawk HP Plus), part may have been better driver skill, but there is no doubt in my mind he would NOT have been outbraking that Z06 with stock pads!
The only drawback is price ($319 for all four), but the way I see it, getting race pad level performance while still being quiet, low dust/non-corrosive dust, and having such excellent feel, is well worth it. I'm not even going to bother switching them out when not tracking, I'll just leave 'em in all the time, they are very civillized.
The first thing you notice is the excellent initial bite, which is lacking in the stockers. This VICE GRIP feel gives you confidence that huge braking is ready whenever you need it, and they deliver on the promise, these are pads to throw your passenger into the windshield.
Whereas the stock Supra was comparable to (actually better than most) exotics in its day, these pads with the stock rotors + braided steel lines + good brake fluid and sticky street tires probably put the Supra in league with some of the better big $$$ exotics of TODAY, they are that good. I will try to get some G-Tech braking numbers at some point. I'm looking forward to road racing them soon, I have a friend with the same brake setup as me that recently ran them at Road Atlanta and he was highly impressed. I noticed his lap times were several seconds faster as well, no doubt the pads were part of that. He was able to outbrake a C6 Z06 with upgraded pads (I believe Hawk HP Plus), part may have been better driver skill, but there is no doubt in my mind he would NOT have been outbraking that Z06 with stock pads!
The only drawback is price ($319 for all four), but the way I see it, getting race pad level performance while still being quiet, low dust/non-corrosive dust, and having such excellent feel, is well worth it. I'm not even going to bother switching them out when not tracking, I'll just leave 'em in all the time, they are very civillized.
