[s-cars] Big Reds still feel soft

[pkrasusky at ups.com]

Mike absurdicle'd:

<<<Personally, I'm Textar-curious, since I've heard they're quiet. But
the DS2500s still look brand new after a year of hard use and they're
just <pk>absurdicle</pk> in every measureable way and I'm not sure I
want to take a chance on anything else.>>>

Amen Mike.  After a few days post install I got a bit of squeal with the
Ferodo's so I removed them and did as Teddy / Taka noted:  swathed the
retaining pins, pad edges, and backing plates in wheel bearing grease
(what I had laying around at the moment).  Squeal now 99.9% gone, only
get a latent slight squeal when coming to the end of a stop - WITH THE
WIFE IN THE CAR (read: pussin' on brakes).

These pads are *truly* the cat's freakin' ass.  The bite is fantacular,
modulation spectabulous, fade resistance fabtastic, and amazingly dust
seems to be really negligible.  While the pedal "feel" (as in travel) in
the 930 beats it, the pad feel with these is beyond addictive.  Never
felt pads like this before.

I did enjoy my Textar's in my UrS6 mit 993tt's, sure (immeasurably more
than Mintex Red!).  But DS2500s they are not.  I've had to adjust my
breaking points as I keep stopping short by about 20' - kid you not.
Best is just late-braking and stabbing them and scrubbing speed like
there's no tomorrow.  You can hear the 245/18s struggle to react - love
it.

Forrest, sounds like you need to remove pads and slather with Anti Seize
or the like (shhh we'll wake Torsen Boy from his slumber heh heh) - not
on the face obviously.  Then rebleed, and rebed.  I'd bet that solves
things for you.  IIRC I too had to do the 2x bleed in my UrS for some
reason.  Weird.

Good luck, happy braking.

-Paul