Advice tonight please - Rear Brake Pads - Ferodo or EBC?

[Tempest]

Hi Paul (Tempest),
An interesting thread glad too hear you got it all sorted in the end

Chris.

Well, glad someone found it interesting

Like many things, stuff gets confusing when you look TOO MUCH into something.

Go to shop, they say, need new pads, you buy their pads, fit them, move on to other things.

Or go home, start browsing the net, finding masses of contradictory advice, find out way more then you every wanted to know, and just get confused to the point of pulling your hair out.

Normally, I do the latter

The thing I'm after is finding a common theme/thread of information.
You're always going to get pro's and con's from different people, it's just that with this one, it was hard to get comment that leaned one way or the other.

At the end of the day I'm finally happy with my choice.
I know the rear does not need to be a razor sharp as the front as this would be dangerous. I know Sintered pads are going to eat into the single smaller rear disc, and then to cap it off was the info from that disk maker that Sintered pads don't get the loading on the back to make them work well in the 1st place.
All those things combined made me choose what I did.

That's not to mean however, someone else might think totally the opposite

[Tempest]

Just found the article from a web site which swung my decision at the last minute towards non sintered.

Whether it's correct or not I've no idea, but sounded resonable to me.

REAR GALFER WAVE ROTORS
(USE STANDARD PADS ) Galfer recommend the use of Standard Brake Pads with their rear wave discs. The reason for this is primarily one of braking performance. All brake pads come with a smooth 'sheen' to them which is rubbed off through the friction caused by braking. This sheen will quickly re-establish itself over time if the brakes are not used much. As the rear brakes are used much less than the front, the sheen on the harder Sintered Pads does not wear off quickly enough to allow the desired braking performance to be achieved. The softer Standard Pads are better suited for the rear brake disc as the sheen is more readily removed, thus allowing greater friction for better braking performance.

[mik_str]

I am running EBC HH's all around and am quite content. If you really want to upgrade your front brakes, get a MC and calipers from either an 02 GSX-R 1000 or an SP-1 or SP-2 (although a bit of grinding of calipers is necessary). I am running the SP set-up and am "all teeth"

cheers