I've been happy with my Hawk HPS. I don't track my car, but they handle the dragon fine.
Pros: handle the dragon fine
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I use Hawk HP Plus pads on track days. They bite great when cold and can take some punishment. They howl like a banshee during normal braking
Pros: bite great when cold
Cons: howl like a banshee
I've got these. Great pedal feel, stopping distance. The ****ing worst dust and noise.
Pros: great pedal feel
Cons: worst dust and noise
Vehicle:
BMW
All the people complaining about the noise of the Hawk, i cannot say that i experience the same result. They are a little squeakier than the OEM pads of course, but they aren't like full on race brake loud like people have reported. Maybe my experience is the outlier here, because i was really happy actually with them on the track
Pros: happy on the track
Cons: little squeakier than OEM
HP+ are fine on the track. They are not full-on race pads, but they will hold you down for the first few days back. We run those on the Scirocco LeMons car - it's so light that it never gets the brakes beyond warm. I also run them with summer tyres on my wagon - Great balanced pad that lets you know you are braking.
Pros: great balanced pad
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Scirocco
Ive run HP+ recently at road atlanta for an hpde with NASA. While they are loud i never had any issues with them on track. I was running in a stock brake e36m3 on slicks.
Pros: no issues on track
Cons: they are loud
Vehicle:
BMW
I think HP+ make good track pads for HDPE first timers. I had them on the front of my car when I first started taking it to the track. I liked the initial bite of them. That said, for someone with track day experience like yourself, you might find and exceed their limit fairly quickly.
Pros: good initial bite
Cons: exceed limit quickly
I used them on the street and in autocross on my '79 RX-7 and would agree that they were noisy and dusty on the street - the dust also ate through the finish on my wheels on that car. I didn't have fade issues with them, but that car was light and not very powerful, so it wasn't very hard on brakes.
Pros: no fade issues
Cons: noisy and dusty
Vehicle:
Mazda
They are absolutely not track pads. They fill this awkward in-between in which they have the coefficient of friction and modulation of good aggressive street pads but also dust and make tons of noise in street usage.
Pros: good aggressive street pads
Cons: dust and tons of noise
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Vehicle:
Audi TT
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