EBC Yellow Stuff brake pads

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EBC Yellow Stuff brake pads

Post by Rob Bell » Wed Apr 12, 2017 4:12 pm

Well, this is going to be interesting: I've decided to bury my healthy scepticism of EBC pads and have just bought a car set of EBC Yellow Stuff pads for Project Shed.

The Shed has been using standard road pads up until now, and if I am honest, I really wanted to fit a set of Mintex 1166s. But for some reason, Mintex pads now cost an arm and a leg. The EBC equivalents cost what I was paying for the Mintex 1177s 15 years ago.

It will be very interesting to see how I get on with these. I also have a variable rear brake limiter valve, but suspect that I need no limiter at all: the race prepared Trophy cars had them removed completely!

So, rear brake limiter removed first, then I'll try the pads. Should make for some interesting drives in Project Shed! :)

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Re: EBC Yellow Stuff brake pads

Post by Rob Bell » Wed Apr 12, 2017 5:12 pm

Oh, so we have a record of this somewhere, here are some useful part numbers for the brake pads for standard (240mm rotor) front and rear pads -

Mintex:
Front: MDB1419
Rear: MDB1673

EBC:
Front: DP4817R (but also found DP4143R- not sure which is correct, but Demon Tweeks specified DP4817R)
Rear: DP4662/2R

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Re: EBC Yellow Stuff brake pads

Post by Bigfootmgf » Wed Apr 12, 2017 7:22 pm

I have yellow stuff on mine and they are good on the road but not tried on track yet!
That reminds me must sort out the earning funds situation!!
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Post by talkingcars » Wed Apr 12, 2017 9:47 pm

I've been using yellow stuff for several years on both my previous and current ZSs, I can brake later and harder than with O/E spec.
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Re: EBC Yellow Stuff brake pads

Post by Rob Bell » Tue Apr 18, 2017 10:42 am

The pads will hopefully arrive in the next day or two. Not sure whether I'll have time to fit them and get them bedded in time for the Rushmore sprint at the weekend? :?

I've also removed the rear brake limiter valve: braking much better balanced now and felt fantastic at Goodwood on Saturday :D

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Re: EBC Yellow Stuff brake pads

Post by flyingbanana » Tue Apr 18, 2017 11:55 am

I've been running yellow stuff on the Trophy for the last couple of years, now switching to Red Stuff. The Yellow Stuff generates a lot of dust, but as stated brake really well without much heat in them.

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Re: EBC Yellow Stuff brake pads

Post by Rob Bell » Tue Apr 18, 2017 12:56 pm

Red or orange stuff? Encouraging to hear that they brake well from cold - which is what you need on a hill climb or sprint. :)

Will be interesting to find out how well these pads perform. Not had good experience with black or green stuff pads before, but I was giving them a lot of grief on tracks where they're probably not best suited.

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Re: EBC Yellow Stuff brake pads

Post by Sergi Bmw » Tue Apr 18, 2017 5:19 pm

I tried redstuff in my AP's and I wasn't happy at all, then I swapped them for the Black diamond ones from Mike Satur and they are much better!

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Re: EBC Yellow Stuff brake pads

Post by Bigfootmgf » Tue Apr 18, 2017 11:24 pm

I have used green stuff and they were not much better than standard also tried black diamond and found them not great when cold and really vibrate when hot on track.
Yellow stuff work really well straight out the box!
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Re: EBC Yellow Stuff brake pads

Post by Rob Bell » Wed Apr 19, 2017 6:03 pm

Pads are here!

Two EBC boxes:
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Un-boxed rear pads:
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Here comparing front and rear: the rear pads being smaller, Rover 800-derived:
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Now need to find a little time to fit them! :)

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Re: EBC Yellow Stuff brake pads

Post by flyingbanana » Sun Apr 23, 2017 9:32 pm

Fitted my TT front discs with red stuff pads to the Trophy today, really impressed find them sharper than the yellow stuff.

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Re: EBC Yellow Stuff brake pads

Post by Rob Bell » Mon Apr 24, 2017 1:43 pm

I didn't fit them last week in the end: racing on Sunday and figured that there was little chance of getting them bedded in on time.

Will do them this week. There also feels like there may be some air in the system, so a re-bleed is also on the cards...

And at the risk of this thread morphing into a general discussion on up-rating brake feel (a real MGF/TF Achilles heel IMO), I am also concerned about the amount of bulk head flex - and this in spite of some very substantial brake servo support brackets!

Hmmm... the thinking continues on that latter point...

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Re: EBC Yellow Stuff brake pads

Post by Rob Bell » Mon May 15, 2017 3:25 pm

Finally fitted the yellow stuff pads. Not really driven enough to form a useful impression, but initial retardation feels just fine :)

Need to bed the pads in now ahead of the Abingdon CAR-nival :D

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