Originally Posted by
echo46
I replaced mine with blanks and Akebono ceramic pads. After bedding and short break in they are pretty good.
I've recently done the same, first the rears a few months ago, then the fronts recently. At first I had REALLY clean rear wheels, and typically filthy fronts, in almost no time. I was glad that the fronts were soon gone too so that I could complete the transformation. Now I have perpetually clean wheels, and with the PITA that cleaning the stock ZHP wheels is, it's a godsend.
As someone else noted earlier, you'll lose a tad of the stock pad's bite with Akebonos and non-slotted or drilled rotors. But for a street car, it's more than adequate. Zimmerman makes a stock equivalent replacement rotor that's readily available.
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