[Tom Wells]

Olly,

A definite vote for the RedStuff EBC pads here. I have found them to be noise free and very low dust for many, many track day and street driven miles on two different cars. Probably more than 20K miles.

I did follow the EBC break in recommendations pretty closely.

My Jag rear has a CWI Porsche vented rotor setup but I think the stock rotors would behave the same. No vibration of any kind either on the street or the track.

I'd strongly recommend using the same RedStuff on the front disks. Don't know what the effect of mixing pad brands would be in regard to relative caliper line pressures and friction coefficients vs temp. Might be OK - might be problematic - wouldn't want to find out on the track!

As to front/rear caliper bias, the front calipers should always lock up first. If the rears lock and the fronts continue to turn, you won't be able to steer.

Think about trying to stop an arrow while it is in the air by slowing its front tip with a finger; if the rear part isn't perfectly in line with the front, if your finger moved slightly off the trajectory, the whole arrow will rotate using the front as a pivot, and very rapidly!

In a Cobra this is called a snap spin. When this happens you will usually figure it out after the fact.

Not as much of a factor in conservative street driving but a big one in an emergency on the street or during spirited driving on a track.

Just saying...

As an added thought about ten years ago I had a shudder in low speed stopping that went away when I switched to the EBC pads. No recollection whether it was the front or rear and not saying it will work for you necessarily but here is one anecdotal precedent.

I am certain you will wear out this problem!

Tom