I have Hawk HPS pads and they work great on the street and produce way less dust than stock pads.
Pros: good street performance, low dust
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I ran the Hawk HP+, and had no complaints. Never did a whole lot of hard driving, but they held up in short bursts and were good for daily driving.
Pros: good for daily driving
Vehicle:
Mazda
I’m a fan of the Hawk HP+ track pads! The bite and fade resistance is excellent. They’re a little squeaky on the street but not terrible.
Pros: excellent bite, fade resistance
Cons: squeaky on street
For last Autox season I used the factory calipers. Hawk blue pads, motul brake fluid. Had no issues at all.
Pros: no issues, reliable
I autocross a bit and went with Hawk rotors and pads from Tirerack after a bit of mulling it over. Overall fairly happy with them, a little dusty but have NEVER faded while on them hard. Put maybe a hard 5k miles on them so far.
edit- I do have a 1.8 and as mentioned at least once you should consider getting the 1.8's calipers.
Pros: never faded, good performance
Cons: a little dusty
Vehicle:
Mazda
Mileage: 5000 km
I run hawk hps pads on my NA. They've held up to entry level track work and not made much noise on the street. Feel fine when I choose to drive the Miata to work.
Pros: held up to track work
Cons: null
Vehicle:
Mazda
Just switched from Stoptech street pads + stoptech drilled and slotted rotors to zimmerman cross drilled rotors with hawk hps5.0 pads. Must say I like my Zimmerman + Hawk setup a lot.
Pros: good setup
Vehicle:
Audi S4
I used these Hawk brake pads for a HPDE track day so they did get very hot. They still have 10mm of thickness left, but this particular pad has these very pronounced cracks. All other pads have very minor cracks (barely visible), but this one was the worst.
Pros: 10mm thickness remaining
Cons: pronounced cracks
Vehicle:
Ford Mustang
I swapped from the ake’s to hawk on the last pad change. Hawks definitely don’t have the same stopping performance as the stock ones. I hate the dust from stock, but they work so much better Wouldn’t say the hawks were unacceptable by any means. Not worth the trouble to pull them out, but won’t be using them again
Pros: less dust
Cons: less stopping power
Not only do they do that, they're a terrible autocross pad. Dust is something that happens with pads that stop there are very few that stop and don't make dust. However there are different types of dust, stuff that sticks to everything and stuff that wipes off easily. But the problem with those pads in general isn't even the dust it's there very on off switch nature. They're very powerful and they're very grabby and they do not release well either which makes abs fight a lot more to do its job.
Cons: terrible autocross pad, on/off switch, grabby
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