Brake rotor and pad recomendations

I've got a 2006 Taco (her name is Tanya) anyway I'm looking to put better rotors and pads on her. does anyone of suggestions of brands and best place to find such things?

 

hawk ceramic pads and power slot rotors....good combo.

good place to get the pads...http://raceshopper.com/hawk_brake_pads.shtml#request_quote


you can get the rotors at autoanything.com ......performance products has them too.

im gonna get the hawk pads very soon.

 

hey bro..... can you get a link for me to the rotors that you got?? im definitely gonna upgrade soon.

 

thanks man....i'll give him a buzz later on!!!

 

This may be an obvious question but I did not see it asked anywhere before. I'm installing slotted rotors and Hawk brake pads as recommended here. I noticed that the Hawk pads have a backing plate built onto the pads. Do you guys just toss the two stock backing plates from the stock pads or use them on the new Hawk pads for a total of three backing plates per pad? I'm inclined to toss the stock middle slotted backing plate and use the stock solid plate. I would apply the supplied grease to the hawk pad backing plate and put the solid stock backing plate over that. Anyboby try this or do you just grease up the hawks and stick them in without the stock backing plartes at all?

 

i think the plate on the hawk pads is enough, so i dont think you'll need to add any to them.

 

Ok, cool. I didn't see any info at Hawk about this either so you are probably right on. Thanks.

 

I wrote to raceshopper and asked about the Hawk pads, and this is what they said....

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2006 TOYOTA TACOMA w/ 5 Lug Wheels
(front) BEST BRAKES SUPER PREMIUM ROTOR $81/ea.
(front) SP PERFORMANCE SLOTTED ROTORS* - Pair $188.84

Hawk does not yet make pads for this vehicle.
We have SP Street Plus pads:
(front) SP STREET PLUS BRAKE PADS $50/set

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Was it the SP pads you installed?

Thanks~

 

Funny thing is I checked autoanything and they show Hawk pads for Tacomas. The dropdown menu says it doesn't matter 5 or 6 lug. I wonder why raceshopper said they don't make them? That's weird.

http://www.autoanything.com/brakes/61A2731A0A0A2067936.aspx

 

SS brake lines definitely helped on my '05 Altima. I would assume they would do the same here. The whole point of them is to remove that mushy expansion of the rubber lines. Someday I'll get around to that mod myself.

 

the braided stainless goodridge g-stop lines i just put on my 04 definitely helped my system out.

 

^Good to know.

 

I got the Hawk ceramic pads and slotted rotors from Autoanything. had both in stock at good prices. Took two days to arrive with free shipping and it was a heavy package.

This was the best upgrade to my Tacoma I could have ever done. With only 30k miles on the truck the stock rotors and pads had been changed out once already due to warped rotors. The second set were warped so bad that the front end shimmied even without applying the brakes. The new rotors and pads completely solved the shimmy and the brakes stop way better and even smoother modulation than stock. Just shows how horrible the stock setup is on these otherwise awesome trucks.

 

Can you tell me if you have 6 lug wheels or 5 lugs? I think that's my problem is that I have the base truck and it comes with 5, and according to raceshopper, Hawk doesn't make pads for that setup