Where is the best place to buy green stuff pads, i tried two local car parts places yesterday and they both said they had stopped dealing with EBC?

what about the ebc website ?

Spooky!
As part of my pre Stoneleigh strip and rebuild of the front suspension this weekend I thought I'd buy and fit some greenstuff as a bit of an upgrade as the cars been a bit neglected.
Anyway, I did a search on here and the opinions seemed so mixed about them and theres nothing wrong particularly with my cheapo pads that I spent the money on beer instead!

The majority of Westfield owners in the WSCC prefer Mintex 1144 as they get better results.

http://www.brakes4u.co.uk/

Just got some yellow stuff pads off these guys..

I run EBC greens on my XR2, never had a problem with them. They're certainly a huge improvement over the stock pads, as I proved to myself whilst having a 'play' with an SLK on a route with lots of wide stretches with roundabouts in between.

I'd stuck a set of stock pads in as a temporary fix due to needing a set in a hurry (stuck caliper). The difference in fade temperature was huge. I could never get the greens to overheat on that car, which weighed about 750kg and made 150bhp. I doubt you'd be able to do it in a kit either, unless on a track maybe.

Chris

+1 for Mintex - the best IMO

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Originally posted by ChrisW
I run EBC greens on my XR2, never had a problem with them. They're certainly a huge improvement over the stock pads, as I proved to myself whilst having a 'play' with an SLK on a route with lots of wide stretches with roundabouts in between.

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I use black suff in mine - theres a guy on the bay selling them for about £25 a set

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Originally posted by RazMan
+1 for Mintex - the best IMO

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Originally posted by iank
I believe they (EBC Greens) need higher temps to work well

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Whilst I personally recommend the Mintex for road use.....

I must confess that I have changed to these:-

Ferodo DS2500

They are so good they are now also on the VX220T ...
However, I cannot emphasise strongly enough to read and adhere to the instruction leaflet, if any of you decide to try them...

Fozzie

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Originally posted by iank
I believe they (EBC Greens) need higher temps to work well, which isn't a problem in tin top being driven enthusiastically, but a lot harder to achieve in a 500kg kitcar, especially where people have 'upgraded' to vented disks.

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erm, no expert on this subject, but funnily enough was just talking to a company that supplies EBC products. As a rough rule of thumb the 'ladder' is
black, green, red, THEN yellow, Blue.
Yellow being trackday oriented for high performance cars......

oh, and apparently 'heat' doesn't really come into the equation - ie/ will the discs get hot enough for the various different colour grades to work effectively, its more about resistance to fade. The suggestion was that for my car yellows would prob be ideal ( currently got reds)

[Edited on 26/4/10 by greenwood03]

Ive got red stuff on the Chimaera. Good when hot, scarey when cold

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Originally posted by iank
I believe they (EBC Greens) need higher temps to work well, which isn't a problem in tin top being driven enthusiastically, but a lot harder to achieve in a 500kg kitcar, especially where people have 'upgraded' to vented disks.

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Urban myth I'm afraid, probably started by Mintex lol...................Chris

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Reason I went for the yellows is
1. the Mintex's squealed like there's no tomorrow.
2. The bumf with the yellows says "excellent initial bite from cold"

And, I spoke to the EBC tech at the UK centre and he recommended them for my powerlites, as have a few racy type folk on this forum.

Time will tell, I've done 45 miles on them so far and they sequel as much as the 1144's

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Originally posted by coozer
Reason I went for the yellows is
1. the Mintex's squealed like there's no tomorrow.
2. The bumf with the yellows says "excellent initial bite from cold"

And, I spoke to the EBC tech at the UK centre and he recommended them for my powerlites, as have a few racy type folk on this forum.

Time will tell, I've done 45 miles on them so far and they sequel as much as the 1144's

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What I meant was the EBC recommended the yellow ones over the green or red ones for my car and Powerlites

My Mintex pads squealed like a stuck pig until I bought some anti-squeal pads on eBay. They simply stick on the back of the pads and are slightly rubbery - they just take out any slight movement of the pads in the caliper and work a treat.

I tried everything in my Powerlites including Greenstuff and Wilwood's own 'smart' pads - both of these had bad cold performance but fairly good when warmed up - the Mintex 1144s work very, very well hot or cold.

Hmm,
From what i can make out on EBC's spec from the website, to all intent GREEN should give better (the best) braking per pedal effort, for any car at COLD.
How they then continue to perform at high temp is also at the lower end , hence the up p to 200hp/light cars.
the other colours, vary at cold but have better performans and resitance to FADE tt HIGH temps/continued use

This shoul magew GREEN a hot contender for our NON servo brakes to give easier braking under normal conditions, but experience here was not supporting this enough, hence my hangover

I found that the greens I had on the tin-top had a good bite from cold, but 4 or 5 enthusiastic uses of the middle pedal was enough to have smoke pouring off them (and thats on a car that weighs 760kg, all be it with quite small brakes)

I have Green Stuff on the fronts of mine. I've never been a fan of them but they were on the car so...

If you've seen how fast Richi Jenkins and his brother drove the car before I bought it you'll know they must work

On track they're fantastic, after half a lap they'll pull your face off. They are being used in tandem with grooved discs as well.

On the road they're a bit poor when cold, but I'm happy with the trade off.