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> Porterfield brake pads, are good.
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post May 17 2005, 10:02 AM
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QUOTE (JmuRiz @ May 17 2005, 07:09 AM)
I hear the Hawk Performance HPS pads are good for street use, not sure about the track. I think I have a semi-race pad now on my street car...don't bite for S untill heated and squeel like the dickens when doing a slow stop. A switch to Porterfield or Hawk street pads might be the ticket.

Hawk HPS are good street pads, comparable to the Porterfield R4-S. And yes, I am saying this from direct experience. They don't make a Hawk pad for the 914 rear though.


I got my pads at Livermore Performance, a place I thought I had discovered, but I guess others here have already heard of them. They seemed like good people.



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post May 17 2005, 10:17 AM
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QUOTE (phantom914 @ May 17 2005, 11:02 AM)
I got my pads at Livermore Performance, a place I thought I had discovered, but I guess others here have already heard of them. They seemed like good people.

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they were good people to me... I wasn't 100% sure which pads I actually needed since my car is a mid-72, and use the 73+ calipers... they knew, and made sure I got the right ones....
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post May 17 2005, 10:49 AM
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trek -- did you toss the prop valve and use a T?
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post May 17 2005, 01:56 PM
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I added the Porterfield R4S pads to the 914 when I did the brake job last week.

Had them on the 308, had to do a panic stop on the mountain road to Cripple Creek to avoid hitting some moron stopped in the middle of the road to look at Deer or something......thought my eyeballs were going to pop out!!
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post May 17 2005, 04:22 PM
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trek -- did you toss the prop valve and use a T?

No... (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/unsure.gif)

If I get the SS lines, then maybe I'll try the "tee".
The feel with the prop valve in place is very good.

We'll see.

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post May 17 2005, 04:26 PM
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QUOTE (phantom914 @ May 17 2005, 09:02 AM)
They don't make a Hawk pad for the 914 rear though.

Andrew

I'm pretty sure that you can turn the 914 front pads into rear pads by opening up one of the holes for the pins....pads are identical except for one hole on each pad.....
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post May 17 2005, 04:31 PM
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QUOTE (Mueller @ May 17 2005, 02:26 PM)
QUOTE (phantom914 @ May 17 2005, 09:02 AM)
They don't make a Hawk pad for the 914 rear though.

Andrew

I'm pretty sure that you can turn the 914 front pads into rear pads by opening up one of the holes for the pins....pads are identical except for one hole on each pad.....

That's what I remember reading on the site before, but it's not true. The rear pads are physically smaller. I think the rear pads from some makers are 911(?) pads because the rear Porterfields I got had the same size holes rather than one small and one large hole so I had to enlarge one hole on each pad.


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post May 17 2005, 04:33 PM
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Correct:

The front 914 pads are much bigger than the stock 914 rear pads. We have to drill out all the Porterfield *rear* pads.


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post May 17 2005, 04:33 PM
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"just" get 914.6 rear calipers and you will be able to find pads ...
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post May 17 2005, 04:34 PM
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The rear pads are physically smaller... I had to enlarge one hole on each pad.



Yep, same story here.

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