Quote Originally Posted by StraightSix
For auto-x or track, I'm not a big fan of Hawk's pads. Too many of my friends are running them and getting a god awful amount of noise out them.

I've known for ahile that cross drilling was both pointless and a really, really good way to get a cracked rotor from metal fatigue.
I assume you mean on a daily driven car? Or since when has compromising performance & safety for comfort been on the checklist of things to do on the race track or performance driven car?

That's like saying, "ah you know what, it's kinda hot today...i don't think i'll wear my fire resistant suit" or "my brakes are kinda noisy, I think I'll go to pads that will suddenly fade when braking for turn 10a...but at least people won't look at me when my brakes are squeaking!".

For normal street use a race pad IS a bad idea, regardless of the noise it will never get up to temperature to properly work in everyday traffic.