I have a 2006 E90 (NO TURBOS) that I can not find pads for! I guess having a single model NA car vendors are not interested in them? I have managed to find some Hawk HP Plus but I really wanted Pagid. I think I could live with EBC but have no idea which ones I want. So my issue: Hawk easy to find but noisy and eats rotors EBC I have no experience with and not as easy to find Pagid I can not find but was looking for blues or orange Any track rats around here have a suggestion? Is there any other model that might cross part numbers with my car? I am at a lose trying to find these pads! Thank for any replies! Damien
I tried EBC reds once - entirely possible I didn't get them bedded in right, but I was able to measure their usage in dollars per minute; it was kind of fun hearing later from people who were behind me about the giant clouds of black dust blowing out the wheel wells. The fronts lasted for about 3 twenty-five minute sessions. That was some time ago too, so they may well have changed pad formulations since then - but I haven't tried them again, haven't had any reason to. Where have you looked? Turner Motorsports, Bimmerworld, Ireland Engineering & Bavarian Autosport?
Contact Dave Zeckhausen. He will give you a whole list of potential pads that fit. I've used Hawk HT-10 before, and they are a great track pad. Here's his store listing for the E90 330i, but if contact him, he can likely provide more assistance -- great guy that I've done a lot of business with over the years. http://store.zeckhausen.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=3_9_201_235
-MGarrison I have checked all of them except Ireland. Thanks for the info! -CSBM5 They only have Hawk pads for my car but thank you for the link! Thank for the help so far guys! Edit: Checked Ireland and it looks like they stop at the E46.
Like I said though -- call Dave. He can fix you up with just about any brake pad that comes in the dimensions for the E90, not just what he has listed in his on-line store.
Okay I might hve another direction to go here. Has anyone tried Carbotech pads? Here is a link: http://store.bimmerworld.com/carbotech-racing-brake-pads---xp8-xp10-xp12-xp16-compounds-p1186.aspx Kinda on the pricey side and seems to be very dusty but maybe they wont eat rotors like the Hawks?
The Golden Gate Chapter Magazine. . . . . . just did a write-up on Cool Carbon pads. I'm convinced---that's what I'll put on the roadster when it needs new clamps... Try this link to the Flüsternde Bombe: It's on page 23 of the June issue, the Toybox column. (The link will take you to a page that has links to recent issues; June won't be there for a few days.)
I'm a Carbotech fan. I run XP10 up front and XP8 in the rear. My car is a bit lighter than yours. I will say they are rotor friendly.
I thank everyone for the ideas and input! Since my first track this year is not a high speed track I have found and will use EBC Yellow on front and Red on rear. If I get to the more demanding track this year I think I will try to get a set of the Carbotech pads. I am out of time so the EBC will have to do in a pinch. A added bonus they are slightly cheaper then stock pads!
As it turns out my supplier fell thru. Last minute I had to order the hawk hp plus pads. Next time I will be ahead of the game and either have cool carbons or carbotech pads ready to go!
I need me some Coolish Carbonis After burning down Fontana in a 335i, during LA's one-day driving school last week, I am DEFINITELY going to recommend that Party B put something not-so-damn-stock in that rat. Brake fade? Well, let me just say that when I came through the banking at 120 and started to get 'er whoaed for Turn One, I began to plan on missing the cones and heading down the back straight. . . . It took a lap of rally drivin'---that is, slow down sideways instead of with the brakes---to cool them off, and I don't like to drive like that when students are watching. ("DO AS I SAY, YA LITTLE GRUNIONS, NOT AS I DO!") I kept pointing by the instructor behind me, but for some reason he stayed back. I think he may have been anticipating an interesting conflagration that he didn't want to be a part of, but didn't want to miss, either. As I said, I've been sold on the Cool Carbons by a column in the GGC newsletter.
