I've used Textar pads and they're good pads. You won't be disappointed in them for public road use, even hard driving. Now for track use, they may fade a bit.
The zinc coating is a nice thing to have to prevent hat rust on the discs, but not required by any means. Taking some high temp silver spray paint bought from the local auto parts shop and spraying the hats (tape off the rest of the disc) is a simple thing to do.
One more thing: be sure to buy some aftermarket stainless steel brake lines while you're doing all this brake work. They made my brake pedal far more responsive and stiff and it was
very noticeable. It was the single best thing I have done to my braking system to upgrade it.
Oh yeah, I painted my rotors red and that's cool looking too!
