Porterfield brake pads

[johnk]

Anyone have any negative (or positive) experiance with Porterfield street pads on a Gen3? Noise/additional effort/dust/eating rotors? Thinking of replacing the dusty stock pads.

Thank you
John

 

[PhoenixGTS]

I have had them on my Gen II non-ABS but 40mm rear caliper car for awhile. I love the R4S on my SRT-8 Jeep as they are very clean, quiet, and eased what I would characterize as an overly grabby pedal feel. But now that I have had them on the Viper for awhile I am thinking about ditching them and going back to stockers. They are making dust on the Viper. No where near the mess of the stock pads, but if I have to wipe the wheels off anyway what the heck. BUT the biggest thing is they just plain do not stop the car well compared to the stockers. Yes I hated the low speed/low pressure squeal and mess of the stocker but DANG those things were like throwing out an anchor at 100 mph. I do not feel safe stopping the car from 100+ with the Portefields (I never tried the R4 race compound). I guess in the world of Viper-tax etc $250 for that lesson was not catastrophic. Regular slow street driving I really like the R4S, but high speed I do not.

 

[Tom F&L GoR]

If R4S was not like stock, then R4 felt in between stock and Brakeman #3.

 

[Racer Robbie]

I tried them and found the same thing so I went back to EBC Red Stuff Pads and have no dust problems and have great pedal feel and braking power. The Red pads are ceramic and the Yellow race pads are carbon fiber