" Bedding " procedure for Hard brake pads

[Alfa02]

Jim is 100% correct on bedding in race pads. But why do you think you need race pads for the street? They never get hot enough to work correctly on the street, Back when we were kids, it was cool to say we had race pads on our Z's, but what a pain, planning your stops, far ahead just to get them warm enough to stop the car They can and do pull when the temp's aren't even (The older "Wiser" club members would shake their heads and laugh, when our cars would all of sudden pull left or right). By the way, the ez way to bed in brakes, is take a little emory cloth, or light sandpaper and lightly sand the glaze off the new pads, before installing. My crew used to pop the puck's out, and sand them after every session (Race pad's will glaze, after a hard session), while also bleeding the brakes, all in less the 20mins, nothing better then a hard pedal , before each session. Cheers Tom.

[HTM101]

I purchased my car in the mid-1990's, and it came with Wilwood brakes. The supplied pads were definitely for racing, which I didn't know. In fact, I really knew nothing about pads back then.

Those pads had a very high metallic content and were also very dusty. I didn't drive the car a lot during that first year, and parked the car over the winter with some brake dust still on my Trigo aluminum wheels. When I took the cover off the car about 5 months later, electrolysis from the iron particles laying on the alloy, had pitted the wheels terribly.

Those pads went in the trash.