I wanted to update everyone about the Hawk LTS pads I put on a few months and thousand miles ago.
The LTS pads continue to work well. Pedal feel is much better than stock, with good intial bite and far better bite after braking. Strangely, I have had to make two panic stops since putting the pads in (never had to in the LC before) and both times I was able to get good threshold braking with good feedback through the pedal. I have also done a bit of playing around late braking from freeway speeds and found them to have great bite in that situation.
There are only two issues I can find with these pads compared to the stock pads:
1) They squeal a little under light braking. It isn't bad, but if this is something that will bother you be forwarned.
2) The pads get stronger as they heat up a bit. Imagine a metal pad, except instead of having no brakes when cold, they feel like stock and then get stronger as they heat up. What this leads to is that you have to back off the pedal slightly after the first 20 feet or so of braking. The other side of it is they really work which the stock pads don't.
In my book the tradeoffs are well worth it. I will not go back to the stock pads.
The LTS pads continue to work well. Pedal feel is much better than stock, with good intial bite and far better bite after braking. Strangely, I have had to make two panic stops since putting the pads in (never had to in the LC before) and both times I was able to get good threshold braking with good feedback through the pedal. I have also done a bit of playing around late braking from freeway speeds and found them to have great bite in that situation.
There are only two issues I can find with these pads compared to the stock pads:
1) They squeal a little under light braking. It isn't bad, but if this is something that will bother you be forwarned.
2) The pads get stronger as they heat up a bit. Imagine a metal pad, except instead of having no brakes when cold, they feel like stock and then get stronger as they heat up. What this leads to is that you have to back off the pedal slightly after the first 20 feet or so of braking. The other side of it is they really work which the stock pads don't.
In my book the tradeoffs are well worth it. I will not go back to the stock pads.