It's not uncommon to have to shim the caliper to center it up. For
racing, I recommend Carbotech, AX6 compound (www.ctbrakes.com ). We
didn't like the Hawke Blue's much - needed warmup or they locked
easily, were hard on the rotors and left little bits of molten rotor
stuck in the paint of the wheel.
Cheers, Tony
At 11:32 AM 5/23/2013, davehogye wrote:
>Hello friends,
>I've been driving my TR3 on the street with Hawk blue pads and have
>put over 500 miles on them now. They make a mess of dust all over
>and they've been squealing like crazy driving around town between
>stops sometimes. I ordered a set of performance street pads from
>Moss and the outside pad will not fit in the caliper. It's obvious
>that the rotor is not centered in the caliper, but the Hawk pads
>went in no problem, so I hadn't noticed the offset until trying to
>fit other pads. I got another set of street pads, thinking the Moss
>pads where fat and same problem.
>I have TR3 uprights, TR4A-TR6 caliper carriers and new, not
>remanufactured, calipers from BPNorthwest and new aluminum hubs. I
>called BPN thinking the caliper might be the problem and they have
>had no other calls on this. Perhaps the hub dimensions are off. I
>guess I'll have to shave the outside pads to fit them, but has
>anyone else come across this issue. I'll be measuring things and
>hopefully find out what's going on, but it looks like at least .050"
>will have to come off the pad.
>
>
>Thanks,
>Dave
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