Rapid Stop 550c Brake Pads.
A little bit of history here.
Rapid Stop Brake Pads is the brainchild of a certain ex-rally driver. This product is currently distributed by Maddriver's Garage.
Introduced to the market about 7 years or so ago, Rapid Stop brake pads target market is those car owners who want better stopping power then what the factory brake pads can offer.
Back to the review now.
For this product review, I will not be using it on a Satria Neo as the Neo is now using a higher temp performance brake pads due to its owner, which is me by the way, requires a much better braking performance than this brake pads have to offer.
So for this review, it will be fitted to a bone stock standard Proton Saga Iswara Aeroback.
By the way, this brake pads is part of the Project 4G-Series that I've mentioned before here.
Initially the brake pads is supposed to be at "Stage 2" where the braking performance is worked on. The reason it is brought forward because the brake pads is already at the end of it's service life.
So what else to do but to fit this brake pads in.
This is how the packaging looks like together with the brake pads.
Fitting the brake pads is standard procedure.
It is done at the usual place.
This is how the brake pads looks like when mounted on the calipers.
After the pads are fixed to the car, it is then run in by doing a few hard acceleration and braking at the nearby roads.
I guess this is where everyone is looking forward to.
How does it perform?
How good it is?
Does it fade?
etc etc etc
After a few days or 400++ km of using it, I can very confidently say that the car stop much better compared to the stock brake pads.
A jab on the brake pedal while cruising at 100 km/h, will see the speedometer goes down to 80 km/h as compared to stock where I need to hold on the brake pedal longer to get the same effect.
My own braking distance test shows that at 80 km/h, this brake pads comes to a complete stop easily 1.5 car length shorter compared to the factory brake pads, bearing in mind this is done without locking up the wheels.
(P/S: This is by no means an official result, just my own humble test & experience)
Sorry, no usual test track review here as this car is meant for a daily A-B run around car, not something that you use to peksan.com.my with.
A few late braking here and there while driving around, the brake pads perform up to expectation. You can feel the car stopping much faster compared to the factory pads.
How about performance from cold?
No complains here as this pads is almost good to go from cold. Bear in mind though that you can hear some noise if the brake pads is really cold. It will go away after the brake pads is warmed up. This noise will not be as noisy as those on the Pumatec Perform 680c Brake pads.
Does it fade?
Of course it does fade. Like doh.
But I have yet to experience brake fade with this car.
On the Satria Neo, it is too long ago for me to remember the time it took to cook this pads, so I can't comment much here.
Overall verdict?
I would strongly recommend this brake pads to car owners out there who want a better braking performance on the street and the occasional sunday drives.
It might cost slightly more then the factory brake pads, but the stopping power you get from it is very much worth it.
Track junkie alert !!
This is not the pads for you to use in a track race as the operating temp of this pads is only up to 550c.
On the track, any driver can easily heat up their brake pads to temperature beyond 550c. So wise up and use the appropriate equipment for the occasion as Russell Peters said, "be a man, do the right thing".
Where can you get this?
My usual place. EA Autoworks.
Price?
Reasonable.
(P/S: Come on, move your own lazy butt and ask them yourself)
Cheers.
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