Best pads for 256mm brakes?

[JordyzNova]

as above?

[let_nova]

standard GM

[MK999]

Mintex 1144 or 1155 are usually the top recommendations, EBC red stuffs seem to work ok on mine, but I only went for them as they were a cheap disc/pad combo deal tbh.

[John]

as above, mintex 1144s

[JordyzNova]

where do we get them from? my brothers after some for his belmont

[Stuart]

mintex from any mintex selling motorfactor.

44's are ok but soft, 55's FTW!!!

[JordyzNova]

what are these likeley to cost me? going to look for mintex site

[Stuart]

mintex (or TRD for 1144/55/66/77) site wont tell you much.

iirc 44's are 50ish and 55's are 70-80 (but last more than twice as long as 44's)

[Dar]

If your just doing road miles then standard pads are fine. Why bother going for expensive pads when you won't need the performance.

For track use use Mintex 1155 as Stu said. I have 1144's and I can get through them in a silly short time. 1155's next time around.

[Nobby]

If your just doing road miles then standard pads are fine. Why bother going for expensive pads when you won't need the performance.

For track use use Mintex 1155 as Stu said. I have 1144's and I can get through them in a silly short time. 1155's next time around.

ive just bought some red dot discs from halfrauds for £20 lol so just thought i would get some similar pads, im hoping to do some trackdays next year so want some decent on road and on track? but more road if you get me lol

[Stuart]

55's are ace on the road and track. they are the WIN pad

[Nobby]

what do you pay for these matey?

[Stuart]

not really relevant to novas lol
£200 for 4x288mm discs and front + rear 1155 pads
consider that the discs cost £20-25 each normally

[Jon_nova1]

I work for mintex and got standard discs and pads for 256MM cost me all of £20 lol

depends what your after, mintex tend to go right to the edge of the disc, don't go for cheap ones, or you'll have rust at the edge of the discs in a couple of weeks

[Stuart]

I work for mintex and got standard discs and pads for 256MM cost me all of £20 lol


ohh now thats handy to know :d ;)

[Jon_nova1]

yer something like that lol

[Steve]

I got standard mintex discs and pads for 16v callipers for £40 off ebay and they were awesome. Really sharp.

[mayhem]

i'm running ferrodo DS2500 pads and Brembo max disks.

quite an expensive combination, but really works great

[sparkie1401]

i went for GM pads as this is what thepeople in the know recomended (im running V6 set up though)

[stevei]

don't suppose any has the mintex part numbers for m1144 and m1155 pads for the ate calipers?

ste

[brainsnova]

i ll need to have a looky at my local halfrauds as there was a load of discs and pads cheap also i ll blag an extra discount and clear the goodies.

[sparkie1401]

don't suppose any has the mintex part numbers for m1144 and m1155 pads for the ate calipers?

ste

jon nova1 should beable to answer that if he works for them:thumb:

PM him

[Jon_nova1]

Yer, i uploaded the 2009/2010 cd catalogue when they first turned up a few months ago

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=d36e79f04dbe82e0ed24a2875c7fa58ee04e75f6 e8ebb871

Its not easy finding out the c-tech/mintex racing part numbers as we never seem to have any documents for it.

use the standard part numbers followed by m1144/m1155, but if your going uprated for the road m1144's will be fine

so pads for the 2 litre calibra brakes i have are mdb1889, so you should be able to add m1144 to the end, so it makes mdb1889m1144

but as i said, we get very little info about the racing pads, as we only really supply them to camskill and questmead, so best to check

[Stuart]

questmead ftw :d

c-tech you might aswell forget about, they are random pads at best lol.
but yeah std part number + compound suffix is how it all works for them which is great.

[Jon_nova1]

mintex racing and c-tech are both the same pads, if someone got some of the early mintex racing pads, they would have been stamped as c-tech, because they just got people in the warehouse to put the c-tech pads in the mintex racing box lol

yep, been questmead myself, its handy for people in the northwest, they're only in oldham, they don't half do alot of f*cking about, don't be fooled when you see them quiet on the pc's, its just a ploy lol

[stevei]

cheers for that pal