I used EBC green pads back in the 80's. Never again. They caused vibrations and even with new rotors, they again vibrated a few months later.
Cons: caused vibrations
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The EBC pads (Red) that I installed 6 months or so ago have never made a peep at any time. They seemed to fit snugly in the calipers. Very happy with them mated to Zimmermann drilled rotors.
Pros: fit snugly, zero noise
Lol paid £170 for my front brakes last week and did them myself. EBC's too.
Pros: EBC's front brakes
Have a look at EBC, their “red stuff” pads work really well on my car and were nowhere near that price.
Pros: red stuff pads
Cons: nowhere near that price
Have had EBC Red stuff, Yellow stuff and Blue stuff. My impressions of them are below:
Red stuff - slightly better initial bite than an OEM pad, the same goes for performance at higher temps, however on track they didn’t last more than a couple of laps. Certainly more of a daily/fast road pad.
Yellow stuff - initial bite ever so slightly lesser than the red stuff, probably inline with OEM. However they put up with more abuse at higher temps and rarely gave much brake fade. Bit dustier, would say fast road/occasional track pad.
Blue stuff - initial bite worse than OEM, after a few hard stomps you can feel them waking up. Stand up to track abuse very well. After multiple fast laps on track, I felt it was the discs that were getting too hot, so these pads highlighted I needed brake cooling to keep going. Squeak at low speeds, dusty.
To answer your question, imo there isn’t a situation where blues are more ‘streetable’ than reds, I’d swap them out for reds and if you can, keep blues for the track ????
HTH
Pros: good initial bite, high-temp performance
Cons: short track life, dusty
I daily red stuff (stopping a Stinger). They're fine. Occasionally a bit touchy, but that's more me than the pads.
Pros: fine for daily use
Cons: occasionally touchy
Vehicle:
Kia
No complaints using reds for daily. If there’s any track use, stick with blues.
Pros: good for daily use
EBC red is a great street and auto X pad. It’s not a trackpad. EBC Blue is entry-level track and well it technically can be used on the street. Its manners are pretty poor.
The Reds are designed for streets applications. They will be a much better pad on a daily driver that goes to auto cross or mountain roads.
Pros: great street pad, good for autocross
Cons: poor street manners, not for track
Vehicle:
Mercedes
EBC makes great pads and discs. Have them on my NB and they've been solid for like two or three years now after the Brembos warped themselves.
Pros: great pads and discs, solid
Cons: Brembos warped
Vehicle:
Dodge
The EBC RP-1 pads seem to have good road manners.
Pros: good road manners
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