This is highly unusual as until now Race Pads have been built with no regard to disc wear, noise, harshness, bite from cold and certainly never tested and passed brake safety tests for Highway use such as Europe’s ECE R 90 Brake safety test.(see note at bottom about street use in Europe)
 
The biggest advantage of the new EBC Bluestuff  pads is their bite from cold and progressive feel. This is achieved by blending with specially chosen man made naturally mined fibers which are much less harsh on rotors than semi metallic fiber used by ALL OTHER Race pad builders.
 
The EBC Bluestuff NDX formulation has been developed during years of track driving and in 2009 was refined to be suitable for the 3000lb USA model cars such as Mustang,Camaro,GTO,Viper and especially Corvette. Even on the (shall we say) difficult to perfect, race braking on the later “Padlet” type caliper using 6 and 8 piece pad sets the NDX performs well.
 
The NDX pad material is bonded to the steel backing plates using multiple high strength interlock holes and a unique chemical interlayer which raises shear and bond strength by a factor of five and prevents pad to plate separation. The pads are then baked and ground and feature high volume Vee grooves to catch the inevitable large amount of debris from track use.
 
Target use is all types of fast and heavier cars in performance and race driving with much enhanced lifetime over our previous Yellowstuff grade pads.

It is necessary to bed these pads in properly. The ability therefore of NDX to be used on the street and undergo a steady bedding process is a major advantage but even after geometric bedding during street driving for 100-200 miles (if you can achieve that) to achieve a 95% contact area the pads need a full 3-4 laps steadily more aggressive driving and braking and to be allowed to COOL completely before a race, preferably overnight. If you fail to bed these pads in properly you will not achieve their potential.
 
If you do not have the chance to street bed your Bluestuff pads in or you wish to install them at the track, allow 5 laps laps steadily increasing brake use at the track but still allow pads to cool completely before the race, or better still consider using ( ideal to carry a spare set of these with you) our Yellowstuff grade which beds in much more quickly. Yellowstuff is a softer pad, braking is about the same as Bluestuff but Yellow grade will bed in during 2 laps pre race driving at the track. Yellowstuff lifetime is considerably LESS than Bluestuff,that is the main difference between these two EBC compounds. The graph below shows how Bluestuff NDX performs during bedding, assuming discs are flat and contact area is 90% minimum the pads take up to 30 stops to gradually acheive peak performance.

Is important, an off-flat or ribbed and grooved rotor will treble bed in times for street or track use, this is a harder and more durable pad and rotors should be in almost dead flat condition. If you need to have your rotors skimmed we recommend ONLY the very praiseworthy ON CAR brake lathes from pro Cut, which can be found using these links.

Machining per AXLE costs between $40 and $80 depending on complexity and is well worth the money.

 

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