Collection: Brake Pads

Pads are the part of a brake system you actually choose. Rotors and calipers set the limits; the pad decides how the car feels inside them and how long that feeling lasts.

Compound beats brand. A street compound in a car doing twenty-minute track sessions will fade, glaze and cook the fluid behind it. A full race compound on a cold commute will squeal, dust heavily and bite unpredictably until it comes up to temperature. Neither is a bad pad — both are the wrong pad. Work out the hottest thing you will do with the car and buy for that.

The ranges split roughly that way. Hawk covers street through race in one ladder and names the compound in every title. Pagid stocks three track compounds — RS29, RSL-1 and RST-3. Performance Friction identify theirs by number. Endless is heavily Porsche-weighted.

Fitment is by caliper, not by car: the same chassis with an optional brake package takes a different pad, so check the caliper before ordering.