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Matt Nicholson · **Posted:** Mon Jun 25, 2007 8:42 am

....Motorsports Director for BHP Brakes.

It will be slim pickings for pad choices this year from us I'm afraid. I hope to have some amount of pads for the really popular cars (BMWs, C4s, C5s, C6s, Wreck Pinatas) by the end of the summer.

How much from scratch am I starting? Right now I have a pallet of Prospeed GS610 brake fluid to sell, and that's it.....

See you guys at CMP. Maybe....

www.bhpbrakes.com

Scott Johnson · **Posted:** Mon Jun 25, 2007 8:48 am

Matt Nicholson wrote:

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How much from scratch am I starting? Right now I have a pallet of Prospeed GS610 brake fluid to sell, and that's it.....

www.bhpbrakes.com

Don't forget to make a great set of pads for the Legends cars

While you are at it, make sure it's for a heat range that is much higher than the Legends guys would ever need.

Scott

Patrice Bousquet · **Posted:** Mon Jun 25, 2007 8:49 am

Good news
I'm using these pads at the moment and i like them. Work well cold or hot.

TomFreeman · **Posted:** Mon Jun 25, 2007 9:24 am

Congrats Matt. It's nice to have you back in the "vendor I can trust" category again. Best of luck. Make some track pads for 944 turbo/944 S2 brakes, and I'm there.

Matt Nicholson · **Posted:** Mon Jun 25, 2007 10:30 am

Quote:

I'm using these pads at the moment and i like them. Work well cold or hot.

Unfortunately, you are using a material that is discontinued. That was a high-perf. street material that was very expensive and sold poorly becuase no one wanted to pay $200 for a street pad. Shocking, I know.

The new formulations are race-only (I'm going to see how "streetable" they are) and are derivations of the NASCAR and Champ Car formulations the owner developed in the late 90s.

Scott, don't hold your breath.

Tom, you can count on it. Eventually. The owner is a semi Porsche-freak.

Arthur McDonald · **Joined:** Fri Aug 29, 2003 1:54 am **Posts:** 2052

I dare you to make some pads that will stop my old Mustang.

"Deceleration Defined" Whoa Nelly, that's some slogan!

Good luck in the new job!

Ryan Holton · **Posted:** Thu Jul 05, 2007 8:17 am

Any chance of selling those excellent, cheap ass rotors at the new job?

Matt Nicholson · **Posted:** Thu Jul 05, 2007 10:33 am

Quote:

I dare you to make some pads that will stop my old Mustang.

I'll take that dare. I plan to eventually get that pad since it's also the spec pad for the Factory Five racing series. There's lots of those cars.

Quote:

Any chance of selling those excellent, cheap ass rotors at the new job?

Not right away, but perhaps in the future.

Mark Vitacco · **Posted:** Thu Jul 05, 2007 11:04 am

Best of luck in your new position.

Arthur McDonald · **Joined:** Fri Aug 29, 2003 1:54 am **Posts:** 2052

Matt Nicholson wrote:

I'll take that dare. I plan to eventually get that pad since it's also the spec pad for the Factory Five racing series.

I was going to say that using 11" front brakes to retard a track car is .. um.. not wise. But I took a look at http://www.ffrchallenge.com/specs.html and I guess if the car weighs less then 2500 lbs and has a 46/54 F/R weight ratio, it should work OK. Are they using stock '87-'93 single 60mm piston calipers?

Matt Nicholson · **Posted:** Mon Sep 10, 2007 11:34 am

Update:

Wave #1 of 1.6 and 1.8L Miata pads as well as 350Z Brembo pads will be availible for purchase this week.

Website will be updated with pricing soon.

Please buy my pads. I need to make a mortgage payment.....

Todd Breakey · **Posted:** Mon Sep 10, 2007 11:41 am

Matt,

The Miata pads, are they street/AX or track oriented and what is the price. My 1.6 Miata needs new stoppers BAD!!!

Ryan Holton · **Posted:** Mon Sep 10, 2007 11:45 am

Todd Breakey wrote:

Matt,

The Miata pads, are they street/AX or track oriented and what is the price. My 1.6 Miata needs new stoppers BAD!!!

If they are like the ones I ran at CMP, BUY THEM!!

They should be great at AX.

Marty Howard · **Posted:** Mon Sep 10, 2007 11:46 am

Street or track compounds?

Matt Nicholson · **Posted:** Mon Sep 10, 2007 12:42 pm

Yes

A track compound you can drive on the street...(for the Miata, not the 350)

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