911porschefan

Anyone know a good place to buy pads from, anyone giving Rennlisters a discount or anything. Before I order online from someone I don't have any experience with I thought I would ask.

cobalt

I have the upgraded 964 turbo 3.6 brakes in my C2 and I find that for DE use the pagid yellows front and oranges rear work best. Oranges all around are Ok but I chew through the fronts too quickly. Down side is the yellow are quite pricey but last a long time.

For my turbo street use I use the factory pad or the pagid blues almost identical pad and IIRC the factory pad is made by pagid and is almost identical in composition to the blues. The blues being slightly more aggressive but not by much.

boxsey911

In addition to the reply you got from Ken, I can give you some input on this...

I saw the same big improvement on track when I first switched to Pagid greys. Initially I had some blues in the rears but after I had done 3 trackdays on the front greys, I moved them to the rear and put some new greys in the fronts. This took the braking up another level and is right where I want it now.

By doing this I'm essentially buying one set of Pagid greys every 3 or 4 trackdays. New ones go in the front each time and stay there for 3 or 4 trackdays and are then recycled to the rear, where they are good for another 3 or 4 trackdays as they're not working so hard as the fronts. Between trackdays I slot in OEM pads all round because the greys are too noisy for the street. Whether I'm bedding in the greys or the OEM I use the 60 to 10 (six times) and 80+ to 20 (six times) procedure. By the 12th' brake bedding stop' the pedal firms up nicely...especially on the greys

MoparMan

i daily drive mine and do about 4-6 track weekends per year. I have Carbo-Tech Panther Plus on mine front and rear with drilled zimmerman rotors. I have had them on about a year now, not to much dust driving daily, a not bad from the track. rotors still look new and pads are about half gone. I DE in the intermediate group and will be moving up this year after i bite the bullet and put seats and a cage in the car. just my opinion. plus i got a hella of a good deal straight from carbo-tech. GL. T

TrackDays247.com

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911porschefan

boxsey - based on your response, I am assuming that the front and rear pads are the same? Can anyone else confirm this. Several places show different part numbers for front and rear and some places have them the same. Can anyone confirm. Is this only for a certain manufacturer of pads or all pads.

Indycam

What year and C2 or C4 ?

911porschefan

1991 C2, looking at PBR ceramic pads. Told the front and rear are the same.

TrackDays247.com

A slight majority of C2 F&R should be the same - but the early C2s had a really oddball TINY rear pad:
http://www.braketechnology.com/brakes/1580.html

Compared to later F&R:
http://www.braketechnology.com/brakes/1203.html

Indycam

Have you had a look see at the brake calipers ?
Some early C2s had 2 piston rear calipers .
If your C2 has 2 piston rear calipers ,
you need small pads for the back and big pads for the front .
If you have 4 piston calipers front and rear ,
same same pads front and rear .

boxsey911

As the other guys have said most C2s have smaller 2 pot rear calipers. I upgraded mine to the 4 pot rears which use the same size and pattern of pads as the fronts. The 4 pot rears were standard on the C4 and very late C2s (late 1992).

cobalt

Just for the record the later 964's use the same sized pad as the 930 turbos f/r. Actual pad size not including backing plate was 44 x 98mm. This same sized pad is used on the rear of the 91-94 turbos.

Indycam

Didn't the 930 turbo change pad size , 76-77 (54x77) , 78-90 (48x98) ?

cobalt

The 930 78-89 used the 44 x 98 pad, backing plate was larger, I don't consider the 76-77 a 930 that was always known as the Turbo Carrera which basically a turbo charged 3.0 liter carrera with widwbody and early S calipers up front.

Indycam

Yeah but the factory number for it was 930 ?