the pads are so hard because they are for fadee free performance blah blah blah that the slots are digging into them.

 

if you change type of pads, chage rotors too. they get fucked if you start mismatching them mid way through. just get new pads a rotors, problem solved

 

lol but thats not cheap or easy to do :P I need a blow torch to pull the god damn rotor screws out with.

 

torch to get those two little screw on the hat out? NO use an impact driver.

 

if it sounds like a knife scraping, thats probably the wear indicator which means its time to get new ones.

 

i like my aem pads. however these are the first pads i ever changed from oem.

did you get brembo blanks that were drilled by some shop? that could explain a lot. if you got the real brembos that are drilled by brembo, i think theyre about 150/pair or something.

 

i have powerslot rotors and axxis pads. the rotors suck the pads are ok. i used tohave stillen rotorsthatwere the nutsthey cost me $150 a piece. also i just got carbon fiber pads and i havent put them on yet.

 

I have brembo cross/drilled rotors that are great, with reg wagner pads, thermo something. Everything works great.

 

I've got brembo drilled/slotted rotors with AEM pads. At first they sounded noisy, but after a few days they seated properly and now they're fine. Maybe your rotors need to be turned or?