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Just finished setting these up on the Z tonight; the 1988 RX-7 w/sport suspension front brake pads are available in Wagner Thermoquiets. They're about 40$, and if you have access to a welder and a drill press, these are a viable option to the parts store semi-metallics that are what's left for the Toyota brake calipers. (Both solid and vented calipers!) The pad retaining pin holes need to be welded shut, and re-drilled 6mm lower on the pad. That's it. The holes can't simply be re-drilled as the bottom edge of the original hole is the top edge of the new hole. After that, you have more pad surface than the Toyota truck pads, and have available both the ceramics at the parts stores and all the pad options out there for the RX-7...including EBC Redstuff, Porterfields, and Hawk brands. In addition to the very nice thermal characteristics, the Wagners are not terribly priced...about double the cost of the semi-metallics and an overnight wait in most stores. FAR less than the other options for ceramic pads. And they are SILENT! My old semi-metallics would squeal on a light-braking stop, chattering their way up to a stop sign. These are absolutely silent. Not a squeak, squeal, hum, buzz, NOTHING. Hopefully as the week goes on and they get bedded in more thoroughly, I won't have to post a retraction. Looking at the pads closer, you *could* run these pads as-is with a little trimming on the bottom edge on SOME brake rotors; but pad wear could be uneven and rotor wear would be ridiculous due to the unworn ridge on the outer diameter. I welded them up and re-drilled them, and won't hesitate to do it again.
