Re: ceramic vs. semi-metallic brake pads
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Originally Posted by pppt03turbo
thanks for everyone's replies. i decided to go with semi-metallic (the type of pads that came with the car).
actually, i had to do the front brakes twice, because the raybestos pads came with new aluminum channels. these are what each end of pads ride on. after installing everything, the test ride yielded massive sqeaking. i turned around and popped the wheel off. turns out, the new channels were not as wide (by a 1/4+"!) as the stock ones. so, i cleaned up the old ones and swapped them out. no more sqeaking. i don't know if this was packing mistake by raybestos or if they did not consider that gt's have larger brake calipers.
anyway, if you buy front raybestos pads, make sure the aluminum channel ends are wide enough. otherwise, you will be doing your brake job twice.
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Those are stainless steel shims...
The GT has bigger rotors, and they always send shims for the standard disks.
I cleaned and re-used the original shims, too.
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