Upgrading Brakes Question

Never heard of them, but will find time to check them out with my buddy...but initial thoughts are pure marketing verbiage makes for skeptical investigation

• Fast bed in due to factory pre-scorched surfaces
• Huge friction level
• Stable at highest temperatures
• Reduced rotor/disc damage
• Effective from cold making this material street usable

Because proper bedding in is done mounted and out gassing onto the rotor surface. Pre-scorched is missing the cast iron, as when they pre-scorch it...the out-gas isn’t deposited on ‘your’ rotor surface

Friction material rubbing on friction material out-gassed onto the rotor surface is what good/great braking is all about

Then elsewhere on their site, they say hundreds of miles to properly bed in brakes...the norm for me, but that is not “fast” as their above marketing verbiage says...

BEDDING IN NEW EBC PADS AND DISCS


Though their below write-up on bedding is correct...just that their marketing ‘fast’ is just that, marketing verbiage....along with ‘huge’, “reduced”, etc. Reduced doesn’t jive, as brakes are sacrificial in doing their job. Either or both the friction material wears faster or the rotor gets eaten faster...

BEDDING IN NEW EBC PADS AND DISCS
Use brakes with minimal pressure for first 100 miles from urban speeds of 30-50 mph only.
Drive a further 250 miles using slightly increased brake pressure and load UNLESS in an emergency in which case apply brake as hard as required.
Look for a full width contact across the pad depth( rotor braking band) from the outer edge of the disc to the inner and if not achieved allow a further 100-200 miles steady driving. You will see a blue-ish band evidencing contact across the rotor face. Until this band goes from the outer to the inner edges of the brake disc/rotor the pads have NOT yet fully seated. When installing new rotors, reduced width banding is quite possible due to various tolerances and slight misalignments in the vehicle chassis and is NOT a warranty defect or a reason to remove and inspect brakes. Many European cars have SINGLE PISTON CALIPERS and these tend to “Flair” open and cause the contact band described above only to be seen at the outer edge of the disc/rotor and work its way inwards taking up to 1000 miles to do so.
After full width contact band is attained make a further 10 stops from 60 mph to 10 mph in succession with a deliberate attempt to get the brakes hot. Some smells may occur even slight smoke during this final heat up stage of the pads in early life. Then coast the vehicle for a mile to allow discs to cool. Do not pull up and park vehicle with brake excessively hot. You must try to get the discs down to below 60-80 degrees C temperature before parking the vehicle.
When parked let brakes cool to a final cool-to-touch point. Before touching discs splash a few tiny drops of water onto the disc to asses its temperature to avoid burning fingers. If the water spots cause a “hiss” you have parked up too soon and should go out and drive slowly allowing the brakes to cool further.
NEW DISCS TAKE LONGER TO BED IN
Fully bedding new pads to decent condition worn discs/rotors may take only 200-300 miles but when new discs are fitted at the same time bed in times to achieve outer to inner edge contact ( full width blue-grey contact band as mentioned under point 4 above ) can be as long as 800-1000 miles due to extra components needed to be aligned to the vehicle. To Short cut this you can ( and EBC recommend should) have EVEN NEW DISCS Pro Cut Lathe aligned to your vehicle. This process removes only microns of new disc material and shortens bed in time by 75% of the time it COULD take giving you better brakes faster and avoiding hot spotting and pad glazing.
BADLY WORN DISCS/ROTORS CAN TAKE AN AGE TO BED IN
Discs/Rotors with more than 0.5 mm ( 0.020 inches) of lip at the outer edge or hollow in the centre of the braking area can take up to 2000 miles to bed in and will for sure cause Noise, brake fade,vibration and pad burning. Bad rotors can RUIN your pads. 95% of brake fade and noise complaints come from poor disc/rotor condition where the pads touch only at the outer and inner edges and have no chance to deliver an effective brake.