Ebc "red Stuff" Front Pads Crumbling. Too Much Heat?

[Dobz]

I pulled out my EBC red stuff pads today to find the friction material cracked and close to crumbling. Has anyone had this happen to them and would it be caused by getting the pads too hot?

They have had about 100km of fairly hard use up and down a mountain road so I would assume they have seen a bit of heat.

[Moodles2]

A Stagea for example will be harder on the pads than a GTR would, just from the sheer weight of the vehicle.

Red stuff is really for casual street driving, completely wrong pad for mountains/track driving. It's really a low dust economy pad, you're better off with yellowstuff if you're sticking to EBC

[Dobz]

Thanks for the reply.

It's an R31 with S13 Silvia turbo brakes so I am asking a lot of them. I considered using the yellow stuff pad but as it's the first time I've used any sort of performance pad and I thought the red stuff pad would be adequate.

The red stuff pad never lost any of it's braking performance even though I did cook them to the point of crumbling. I really need bigger brakes as well I suppose so I'm not putting the smaller pads under so much stress.

Edited October 15, 2012 by Dobz

[MrStabby]

I've use greenstuff at the track and they were ok.... so no, reds definitely shouldn't fall apart with street work. Photos?

Also, i use QFM pads now, much better value for money. Check out the trader GSL Rallysport.