Hawk brake pads - worth it?

I run Hawk HPS on my daily '73 Dart.
Can't give a real good comparison as I went from 20/30 year old semi-metallic brake pads to the Hawk HPS. My goal was to improve front brakes and the car's front/rear bias. They seemed like an improvement over what I had at first, but not shockingly big. For finetuning my brake system I could use a 1/16" smaller MC perhaps to make the fronts grab a little better. I would be looking for something with a little more bite if I weren't planning on swapping to a complete front Wilwood brake-system.