Street Sport Pads with incomparably less dust!
- Reduce brake dust significantly with keeping highly stable μ
- Quick μ build-up at the initial bite and keep stable μ in a whole braking operation.
Suitable for most vehicles in any category
- wear indicator for European and American car model is available as option
- Please do not use M Type pad at circuit, as it is made only for street sports. Brake pad may wear faster if it is used at circuit. DIXCEL is not liable for any troubles by using it at circuit. We would appreciate your understanding concerning this matter.
- ←A test Car ： Subaru Impreza GDB-F
※The above chart represents evaluation values of our products in 100 phases in comparison with the pads in the same category made by competitors.
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Front： | 16,000〜（w/o tax） |
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| Rear： | 16,000〜（w/o tax） | |
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Front： | 18,000〜（w/o tax） |
| Rear： | 18,000〜（w/o tax） | |
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Non steel・Ceramic fiber | |
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0〜500℃ | |
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Fast road | |
| ※There are exceptions in price for some car model. | ||
- The test of effect at different speeds (μ)
- Decelerating G= 0.5G, fixed temperature=200℃. The friction co-efficiency is measured at different speeds. When the friction co-efficiency varied, the performance would be different at low speed or high speed, and the pads then become hard to deal with. Obviously it has to work not only at low speed but most importantly while braking from a high speed. On the other hand, if it works too efficiently at a high speed, it is extremely dangerous because the tires will lock up too easily. The M type tends to be more stable than OEM products or after-market products.
※deceleration (G) 1G means a braking deceleration of about 35 km/h per second. (1G braking force is very strong.)
- The test of the effect at different temperature(μ）
- The friction co-efficiency is measured at different temperatures with the fixed speed of 100Km/h and the fixed deceleration 0.5G. The M type is especially effective on ordinary roads where the brake disc temperature is around 50-150℃, and is designed to perform with maximum potential at the winding road and emergency stops on the highway where the temperature possibly comes up to 300℃-400℃. OEM products work efficiently at general temperatures, but they do not work sufficiently at high temperatures, fading starts at over 300℃, and they do not work well at all.
- G-spread %
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M type genuine
(OEM)product of
Company Cproduct of
Company D50Km/h 0.3/0.55G 103 114 102 95 0.8/0.55G 98 95 95 105 150Km/h 0.3/0.55G 111 107 107 115 0.8/0.55G 98 93 93 73 - It represents the performance/efficiency difference by the deceleration G.
The friction co-efficiency is measured at 0.3G (light braking), 0.55G (strong braking) and 0.8G (very strong braking) at the fixed speed of 50km/h and 150km/h respectably.
The data shown in the chart shows the friction co-efficiency variation range at 0.3G against 0.55G and at 0.8G against 0.55G. 100% is ideal.
The M type gives the same feeling all the time, even when the brake pedal is pressed strongly. With OEM products, the majority of people feel optimum usage only during light braking.
- A change of μ after fading
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M type genuine
(OEM)product of
Company Cproduct of
Company Dfirst time/
fourth time102 53 95 65 - They were tested at the speed of 100 km/h with a fixed pad temperature of 200℃, and with changes in deceleration G. The change of efficacy was evaluated when they were brand new and after the fourth fading test.100 % is ideal. When the value worsened extremely, it meant their performance was getting lower, for example, the friction co-efficiency drops between first and second session/practice of the circuit track driving. OEM products and materials that company D provided cannot be as effective as its original performance once they got to a high temperature.
- The dust amount
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■ Dust amount of OEM pads (after 1,000km mileage) 
■ The dust amount of DIXCEL M type (after 1,000 km mileage)
- The amount of brake dust and the brake performance are not proportional.
- DIXCEL set this thesis to disprove an established theory that "less dust pads only brings less braking performance" or " high μ pads generates more dust".
DIXCEL has always conducted stringent Research and Development to ensure the above thesis for many years.
What DIXCEL did was to eliminate the steel elements, which is usually used as a main material for brake pads to increase friction co-efficiency. Non-metallic organic materials were introduced instead to prevent dust, squeal and excessive heat. The non-metallic organic materials gave a thin film on the friction surface of rotor and limited the generation of iron particles ground from the rotors' surface, which are the main components of "Brake Dust".It resulted in the completion of our unrivalled brake pads, which accumulates very little dust with low wear - rate without decreasing friction co-efficiency.The basic idea is not making friction co-efficiency by scrubbing the rotor surface but generating higher friction co-efficiency by sticking pad surface to the rotor surface tightly. Firstly it requires a set-up verification for porosity (capacity of vapour in the friction material), and secondly, each elements in the friction material must be bound together tightly. Finally a strong film coating on the surface of rotor is also required.
The next step is for DIXCEL to test out these principles. Chosing the Lexus (LS600h) as the research and development car which has over two tons of weight, excessive acceleration and power, and an evolutionary noiseless design, a car which everyone desires, it is the ideal car to test out DIXCEL's high concept brake pads.
The results were outstanding. Tests showed that it could maintain high level brake performance with very little dust amount from city streets to mountainous road with repeated "stop and go" driving, this was the continuing case when 22 inch wheels were replaced with low profile types. After performing all those tests under various tough conditions, DIXCEL's conclusion to the matter of "secure stopping power while reducing dust", which had been thought as a contradiction, is the "M-Type" pad.
"Wishing to keep alloy wheels clean" DIXCEL M type is recommended to those consumers.
※Used race tracks for impractical tests.
※Recommended products: the Type Z or Type R01 for racing or circuit driving purpose.
