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Nope, the Power Stop pads are slightly thinner as measure with a caliper than my Grand Sport pads with 30 miles!

 

Thanks Jerry, you are my inspiration, I studied your PDF and have never done a job like this before but think I can do it. Was going to have the dealer do it but I think I can.

 

All I did was swap out and didn't do anything else and they are working like a charm and I couldn't have ask for a better early Christmas present in having minimal dust! I did also did push the pistons in to get them out but that's it.

 

Here's one for the Grandsport/Z06 brakes:

 

I see alot of guys changing out their pads for the low dust pads, are any of you resurfacing the rotors when you do this? Mine have a little wear but no cracking and have 11000 miles on the car.. ZO6 iron brakes

 

Bringing this back up as, I am curious about this as well. Everyone swapping pads but , no one is resurfacing the iron rotors first or prepping the rotor.

 

Yep, I cleaned my rotors with a sanding block on my 2014 C7 Z51 that I was foolish and waited ~6 months before i switched to Carbotech 1521 low dust Street Only pads. Then I was foolish enough to put cheap Chinese PowerStop pads because they were only ~$100 for my new Grand Sport! I bought before the car arrived so had no residual on the rotors. But their room temp pad performance was poor. worse than my C7 Z51 OEM Brembo and Cartotech 1521 street pads designed to stop well down to room temp. I tossed them at ~900 miles and installed Carbotech 1521 pads that stopped even better than mu 2014 C7 Z51 as expected with its 6 piston front calipers! I cleaned the rotors with a sandling block prior to the new pad install. Can't see the pad residual on the rotor because it's a very thin layer. BUT can see the residual on the sanding block!

For my C8 Z51 was smarted and bought Carbotech 1521 pads before the car arrived. Stops great.

This is a how Too PDF on how to install pads on a=an early Z7 Z51 with brake pad tape on the front pads, a C7 Grand Sport with not front brake tape AND my C8 back to strong brake tape that most install new low dust pads by removing the calipers.

These is a pic from on my How Too install brake pads PDF. Note resiual can be seen on the sanding block!