brake disks and pads Options

[rhodesyboy]

Hi I am looking to buy some new brake disks and pads, I am after a good set but after looking on demon tweeks the price for decent "well known" disks are pretty expensive, so I have found two other brands and I am wondering if anybody has had any good/bad experiences with them.

The one I am looking at due to their price is just called 'brake depot', you can get front and rear vented and grooved disks and EBC ultimax pads for £348 or £467 for yellowstuff pads.

So I am just wondering if anybody has had any luck with these disks, I know the pads will be good quality because they are EBC the disks are the only worry.

Also with the pads how good are ultimax pads? I won't be doing track days but I will be doing quite a bit of aggressive back road driving so will ultimax be up to the task or will yellowstuff be a better shout.

Also if anybody knows of any better priced disks available or can talk me out of OEM vented and grooved disks that would be just as good

*edit* it is for a celica gt4 st205

This post has been edited by rhodesyboy: Jun 11, 2016 - 12:31 PM

[Bitter]

It's a 7th gen but brakes are kind of brakes, I love my stoptech brake pads. They used to only carry the street performance but now they broke into 3 lines, racing, sport, and street. What I have are the sport (formerly street performance) and they're pretty great pads. Good when cold, great when warm, even better when hot. Pretty linear friction regardless of temps, lots of torque and quick bite, and ungodly high temp fade resistance for a streetable brake pad. 1200 farenheit max operating temp or something ludicrous, I've never gotten them that hot but I've gotten the rotors up around 600-700 farenheit just downright abusing my brakes with about 10 back to back 60-0 stops and then 2 or 3 80-0 stops. No fade. No problems getting down from 100mph in a hurry without fade, no problems scrubbing off from 80 to 0 in a hurry and then sitting at a light waiting either. I'm running plain centric rotors in rear and centric cryo treated rotors up front.