EBC Yellow Stuff Super High Performance Jeep JK Brake Pads P/N DP41798R $119 - Front Set - Shipped	Giving you the absolute most performance out of the factory brake system (Hard on rotors - Heavy Brake Dust)

EBC Green Stuff Rear High Performance Jeep JK Brake Pads P/N DP61799 $64.22 - Rear Set - Shipped	Bigger Tires Require Bigger Bite

HAWK LTS High Performance Jeep JK Brake Pads $78 - Front Set - Shipped p/n HB569Y.650 $64 - Rear Set - Shipped p/n HB608Y.630	By Popular Demand Awesome Value!
	Why Hawk LTS? Hawk offers several differenent compounds for Jeep JK. Hawk tells me that the best brake for "cold stopping power" is the LTS compound. It's that simple.

My recommendations:

Have glazed rotors and don't want to have them turned? - Go with an EBC pads

Rotors are in good shape and looking for an awesome value? - Go with the Hawks

Don't want a bunch of Brake Dust? - Go with the Hawks

We were originally selling EBC Green and Red Stuff front pads. With the introduction of the Hawk Pads and the value they offer, we no longer see a reason to offer the Red and Green Fronts.

A primer on Brake Pads for wheelin:

Lets face it, the factory brake pads aren't the best in the world. About three months ago, I set out to find the best brake pad replacement that I could find. The options quickly became limited to Hawk, Akenobo and EBC. Akenobo has not developed a performance brake pad for the JK. Only an OEM replacement.

Where I personally needed extra braking performance is when I have a wheel dropping off of an obstacle, lets call it a rock. The technique that I use is to keep the Jeep in gear with my foot on the break. I like to push the break hard just as the wheel is dropping off the rock. It keeps the rig moving forward smoothly as if I had extremely low gearing. You don't see any of the pulsing motion that you get with an automatic tranny, or if you're trying to role down it in neutral. I had to hammer the brakes way to hard to get my rig to slow down and even with full foot to the floor the factory brakes are not enough. I now have that extra of braking power that I need. I've seen the difference.

I've spent the last three weeks breaking in and testing the EBC Yellow Stuff brake pads. These are an interesting pad. All EBC performance pads come with an abrasive "Brake-In Surface Coating". This coating remains on the brake pads for the first two hundred miles. The abrasive de-glazes the rotors and restores performance. Upon completion of the 200 mile break in period, you repeat a final step five times, in order to remove remnants of the abrasive coating. I'm stoked with the result. A marked improvement in cold stopping power and that's just what we need for crawling around on the rocks with big tires.

I've also heard of guys with larger tires not having enough stopping power to get the ABS to kick in. I've not run into this myself, but have the piece of mind that I've done what I can to maximize the stopping power of the factory brake system. A larger brake system was too expensive for me to justify.

I talked with Hawk. They make a great product. From what they told me the benefits are more for racing. Most high performance brake pads are high performance because they have a strong bite when they get hot. I don't really care about bite when my brakes get hot. Why? because they never get really hot. I wanted cold stopping power and EBC had the only pads that are touted as providing cold stopping power. I'm offering Hawk brake pads, not because I've had personal experience with them. I'm offering them because so many people have had great experiences with them.

Ultimately you get what you pay for. If you are afraid that your rotors are glazed, then the EBC brakes all have an advantage. They are coated with an abrasive that de-glazes the rotors for the first 200 miles. The down side to this is that you need to perform the break in process carefully. No hard braking for the first 200 miles.

The EBC Yellow Stuff is going to give the best bite all around, but they aren't cheap. If you don't have any rotor glazing issues, then the value of the Hawk pads is undeniable. They are a very good pad. They are easier on rotors than the Yellow Stuff pads.

Next section of text was stollen by me, from one of our fellow Jeep enthusiests:

Drill and slotted rotors help your braking if you are racing and generating very high heat. If you haven't smelled your brakes over-heating, they aren't going to do anything other than look neat for you. There is a TON of information out there about them if you take the time to read up on them. Drilled rotors are also prone to cracking and slotted rotors eat your pads quickly.

Pad compound does makes a difference in your ability to stop, as Woods stated. Pads that work great when they are very hot do not work as well when they are cool. Although, any new pad you put on your vehicle is going to feel better than a pad with a few thousand miles on them.

That being said, I have been using EBC green pads on my Mariner, and before that on my BMW and have always liked them. They are a little rough on the rotors, but I only ever have them turned once no matter what anyway.

The first brake change in my 328ci I used drilled and slotted rotors. 12k miles later my pads were shot and all of the rotors had cracks developing around holes. These were not cheapo ebay specials either, they were $125 bucks each IIRC. I threw the rotors away and when with a quality tradition rotor and that set of EBC greens lasted 30k miles.