I was rummaging through my parts inventory last night when I came across something that I forgot I had, particularly some NOS Ferodo brake pads. I've got a set for both front and rear.

Well, I started to do some investigation on these. The Bird catalog lists these as NLA. But, I was intrigued by the description...

First question, are these pads that much better as described?

Second question, the rear pads do need to have one of the retaining pin holes enlarged to be used in the stock 914-4 rear calipers. Does anyone know the best procedure for doing this?

The slow way - file (rat tail) by hand, with a pin handy to check your progress.
The fast way - a long, narrow carbide burr in a die grinder, but this requires lots of skill to avoid having it get away from you and chew up the hole, giving you an unpleasant feeling in your arms at the same time.
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which ferodos? I the DS11 compound was a real good race pad, I havent seen them in years though.. The other pads M maybe were a nice intermediate pad



Ha!! i know the feeling

I may have been lucky but all I never had an problems drilling the hole. I would just get a bit that fit the larger hole, sit a 2x4 on the garage floor, sit the pad on the 2x4, stand on the pad with my left foot and drill out the smaller hole. I've done this dozens of times.

I thought the hole was oblong, which is easy to catch a drill in, and a good way to spin the pad out from underfoot.