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Originally Posted by EchoMirage
......if you want one pad for driving/track, go with either hawk HPS or HPS+.....
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I run this combo on my firechicken. C5 conversion up front with HP Plus upfront and HPS pads out back, both on factory type rotors. They perform double duty quite well. Cold braking is excellent and I've never had a problem with them while auto-xing. I have yet to do a track day event with this combo, but that is in the near future. The HP Plus pads do dust quite a bit even in normal driving and the dust is kinda tough on wheels so you gotta keep them clean. The beauty of the C5 upgrade is the almost limitless brake pad compounds that exist for them, so choices are plenty. The upgrade is easy, straightforward and uses all factory parts, so getting replacement parts is easy. There are several different companies that make the conversion bracket. Downside to the C5 conversion, weight. Its a heavy combo and requires 17" wheels.
I have the TrackBrackets and its a very nice setup, there are 2 or 3 other suppliers that provide brackets for C5 conversion. Here's a link to get you started
http://www.ls1tech.com/forums/showthread.php?t=353903
To give you an idea of the kind of temps you can see on a track day, the previous owner of my car 2MCHPWR (on this board, maybe he will chime in) melted the WS6 center caps out of the front wheels on my car at Pocono when he first started doing track days, that was prior to the C5 upgrade.....That's a lot of heat.
Chris