What are you using? It seems Hawk has discontinued the HP+ compound. Any other recommendations?
Thanks in advance.
Brake pads for Solo.
What are you using? It seems Hawk has discontinued the HP+ compound. Any other recommendations?
Thanks in advance.
Van Diemen RF-84
I use HPS (street compound) because HP+ was too likely to lock wheels for me. You may have to contact a distributor like http://www.essexparts.com/ to get them in LD19 size. I did this about 10 years ago so who knows what is "right" now.
FYI my rotors are not drilled and many of the sites I run on are not "high grip".
A nice side benefit of HPS is essentially NO dust.
Dick
I run the black compound in ld19 with drilled rotors.Originally Posted by Dick R.
Dick, they don't make them in the HPS compound any more either. I'll do some checking around at some of the distributors. Pegasus no longer has those or the HP+.
I did talk to someone at Hawk that said they would make a batch in whatever compound as long as a distributor ordered 50 sets. I don't think we could get enough people together that would be interested to fill an order that big.
Van Diemen RF-84
The pads that are on the car now have the numbers RR 01 ***SF. I can't make out the three middle letters/numbers. The middle * could be a 4 or H.
Anyone familiar with these by chance?
Van Diemen RF-84
When I converted the Solo Vee to disk brakes, Andy Porterfield recommended his R4-1 compound. Developed for vintage racing, this compound delivers high friction at low temperatures. Firm pedal with good feedback so easy to modulate which is good since I often screw up my braking points. There doesn't seem to be much in the way of rotor wear after 2+ years of autocrossing.
I always liked Hawk black for solo.
Used to use hawk blacks, but we've switched to the Wilwood Polymatrix A's.
The only downside to them is that they wear quickly.
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