I had AEM for a while and I didn't like how they squeaked and the dust on my rims. Hawks are the same price as AEM. Ask Mr.Chad on here, he uses them too and he swears by them. He is the reason why I tried them and now that is the only pad I am going to buy for any car. (I do have an extra set of brand new Hawk pads for and 98 thru? pads, if you want to buy them?) You can get the Hawk pads from tirerack.com or do a search.

SS is a great investment for your car and a lot safer I think. Your stock brake lines on your car get hot and expand not keeping constant pressure causing you to press the brake pedal down a little further which you might not notice because you are use to it. Plus the start to crack and get brittle as the age. SS lines also get hot but since they are wrap in the stainless steel braided shield which barely expands when hot, in which keeping a constant pressure in the lines making the brake pedal feel a lot firmer. I work for an aerospace company and we use ss lines on everything, and we put a lot of pressure on the ss lines, they last forever.