Front pads and rotors are less than $200 shipped in the lower 48 from R1 Concepts.

anyone use the wagner quick stop pads?

Nope. I always used delco'* until I found r1 concepts. Now I use them because they are quality and cheap.

whats the number of the ones you use? or kind? I tell ya I have a loaded caliper set from bendix for my SS and they grab...

I buy their eline slotted rotors and either PosiQuiet pads or Hawk pads, depending on how much I wanna spend.

Got to test them real good today. Had to go from about 50 to 0 very, very quickly in the truck and they did just fine. It was either that or smash into a POS Corolla.

it was pouring here this morn and i went hit them to slow for a light..got nothing,i got wagner posi quiets in now,last night i turned rear rotors,put in new hijacker air shocks and stopped my exhaust from swinging under the car..hoping i fixed the vibration i have been having..

wow... you really got screwed on what you have now.... im running the cheapest pads and rotors autozone sells and apart from the brake dust i can still lock the wheels without much effort. never had any issues in the rain, but that might just be because of my stock rims keeping them dry.

I just switched to bendix semi met'*,night and day these things grab...

I've also had great experiences with Bendix pads. I've always used the CT3 pads when I did use them. I personally preferred the Akebono Ultra Premium pads though, but both were excellent. The Bendix pads smoked up on me a few too many times on hard driving, and were brittle as a dried lakebed when I took them off to replace them. You can get both of them on rockauto.