QFM High Performance Street and Track Pads!

Hi mate,

No dramas at all!

Cheers,
Greg

 

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*** Use of A1RM pads in a street-only car! ***

We'd like to clear the air on an issue that has been brought to our attention. Just recently we've had a customer query us about rotor wear when using the A1RM in their road car. The customer was running A1RM in his daily, which albeit driven hard, was only used to drive to and from work, and the occasional run over the hills. The customer got 15,000 km from his rotors (which admittedly had already been machined once) and the pads.

Where this has caused some unrest is that they were very expensive two piece rotors, and so is up for new rotors at substantial cost, so in light of all this, I feel it is necessary to clear a few issues:

- The A1RM is a street/track cross over pad. Even though it is 100% streetable (cold bite is substantial, generally noise and dust are low enough), it is a pad capable of light track work (similar to a Project Mu HC+ or Ferodo DS2500), and thus will had some drawbacks when being used only in a street only driven car. If you're using the A1RM in your road car because you'd like the ultimate in street brakes, be prepared to change rotors sooner than you would with a regular street only pad.

- The pad below A1RM, the HPX, is a Bendix Ultimate equivalent in terms of performance, so is more than enough for most hard street driven cars. Because it's also very low dust and rotor wear, we supply them as a direct trade servicing pad to a local QLD Ford dealer for use in Falcon's and turbo Territories that use the C5 PBR caliper. Average pad life on those cars with the HPX is about 45-50k kms with low rotor wear.

- A rotor life of 15,000 k's on an already machined pair of rotors (so maybe 20-25,000 k's on new rotors) is fairly good for a pad with the performance of the A1RM. Equivalent pads with the same performance will be no better than this.

The A1RM gets a very good wrap because of it's price/performance ratio, and if you take your car to the track to do some light club springs or circuit work, and accept that brakes will wear out quicker using performance items, then it's still the perfect compromise. If you don't do any track work at all, then probably best to stick to the HPX.

Personally, I run the A1RM in both my rally car, and road car, and don't have an issue with it in either. Additionally, we're also well aware of road cars that have gotten 25,000-30,000 (about 1 year) and a couple of track days out of rotors clamped by A1RM, so the wear will vary with individual vehicles and applications.

Any further questions or dramas please do not hesitate to contact us direct on 1300 884 836.

Regards,
Greg

 

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I have A1RM on the silver TT and HPX on the convertible.

The HPX is a great pad, good bite from cold and next to no dust or noise. It is very predictable and reliable.

The A1RM on the other hand is a different matter. First time you use the brakes from cold there is very little grip. Sometimes outright dangerous. When warmed up though, great grip and great pedal feel. About as good as it ever gets here.

But then they are very dusty and have a grinding sound. As Greg explained, I guess they are grinding away on the rotors. Wheels need to be cleaned several times a week.

 

I actually find that really strange. I've got the A1RM in my daily (Cross 6 AWD One Tonne Ute), which will never see the track, but does occasionally tow the rally car... even front dead cold in the morning the bite is no worse than an ordinary street pad. Certainly with a cold friction co-ef of 0.40, they should be no worse than an ordinary street pad (which is usually between 0.37-0.43), so I'm interested to hear that. Every application is different, and it's great that you've got virtually the same car to compare the two pads back to back.

Maybe it's just been that long since I've had HPX in the ute that I've gotten used to it... That said, I don't recall any significant difference between the two cold when I switched to the A1RM