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Hey im Dave and on this installment of Summit Racing Quick Flicks, we are going to talk
about different types of brake pads available. Okay so up and through the mid 1990's brake
pad manufacturers uses asbestos in the their brake pad materials and that's no longer part
of the equation and what we are left with is 3 main types of brake pad materials: Organic,
semi-metallic and ceramic. So we are going to run through and give you the benefits and
disadvantages of each type of pad. Starting down here with our organic pad. Organic pads
basically, the materials made up of less than 20% metallic materials, it has to be in order
to qualify for an organic pad. The advantages to this type of pad are quiet operation, very
low brake dust, they are easy on the rotors, they are great for daily driven vehicles,
however, not great for incredible stopping power if you have a heavy vehicle or high
horsepower application, these are probably not the way to go. If you have an application
that generates high heat upon braking, semi-metallic is what you would want. That is why we have
our mister Heat Miser here, he is heating up our brake pads, which is actually good
because as you go along with these semi metallic materials the pads actually bite a little
bit more as they heat up so again great for street performance, racing , towing anything
like that. Disadvantages: Noisier than the organic pads, a little bit more brake dust
but again overall performance better. Ceramic pads are the newest type of brake pad materials
on the market. These have a resin facing and they are infused with ceramic fibers. These
will give you pretty good stopping power but mainly they are quiet and very light on brake
dust so if you have an application where that matters, where you don't want a lot of brake
dust on the wheels, ceramics are definitely a great option for that. Pretty insensitive
to hot and cold again great pedal feel, you can use them for some performance applications,
they definitely do a lot better with the heat that the organic pads.
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