GI: Big brake kits, floating rotors!

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Originally Posted by wraith

This^ :) In all seriousness, I would pay extra for the brakes not to say anything rather then XYZ. However, if that was not an option, I would buy a Stop Tech 355mm kit and pay more for the name. The reason is that its a mod that visually represents the quality of the the rest of your car. No one sees your downpipe but everyone knows Brembo for brakes even if it doesn't say Brembo. Not saying the quality of XYZ is not excellent, but it could be a source of ridicule I really dont want. We can get stickers to put on a blank caliper saying anything we want. The fact is most people dont need anything more then the brakes on the car anyway, so its just for looks. Many big brake kits dont even stop in less distance then the stockers once or twice. I want something that looks great behind my big open wheels to hide the uglyness behind the spokes.

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more wheel spokes?

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Originally Posted by wraith

This^ :) In all seriousness, I would pay extra for the brakes not to say anything rather then XYZ. However, if that was not an option, I would buy a Stop Tech 355mm kit and pay more for the name. The reason is that its a mod that visually represents the quality of the the rest of your car. No one sees your downpipe but everyone knows Brembo for brakes even if it doesn't say Brembo. Not saying the quality of XYZ is not excellent, but it could be a source of ridicule I really dont want. We can get stickers to put on a blank caliper saying anything we want. The fact is most people dont need anything more then the brakes on the car anyway, so its just for looks. Many big brake kits dont even stop in less distance then the stockers once or twice. I want something that looks great behind my big open wheels to hide the uglyness behind the spokes.

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I haven't been ridiculed for the brakes, people are jealous of them, honestly. They say, "Those brakes are huuuuuge, I like them a lot." I then reply, "Yeah they work great too and quality and fitment is top notch."

I am defending these brakes because they have well exceeded all my expectations. For people to be worried about a branding after they have shown to be performers seems silly to me.

From the phone.

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Originally Posted by R/T93

I haven't been ridiculed for the brakes, people are jealous of them, honestly. They say, "Those brakes are huuuuuge, I like them a lot." I then reply, "Yeah they work great too and quality and fitment is top notch."

I am defending these brakes because they have well exceeded all my expectations. For people to be worried about a branding after they have shown to be performers seems silly to me.

From the phone.

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This, and in all honestly I don't care what people think. I drive a green car lol

I've overheated my stock brakes twice on the dragon. This year these brakes didn't fade a bit and I drove it harder than ever. I got the $256 ticket to prove it :lo5l:. Also beat them real hard at the NG road course and they held up great. These weren't really designed to stop faster hints the brake bias is almost the same as stock. They are designed to put up with more abuse and they have done that. Aesthetically I've been happy also and for the price I don't think I could have done any better.

How much can we get these brakes for in a group buy of 5 or more people and can we get them with no lettering on them? That should put this back from a derail :)

I think when you get them powdercoated a different color it doesn't have the lettering. Not sure if you have to pay more to get them without lettering though.

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Originally Posted by green-lantern

This, and in all honestly I don't care what people think. I drive a green car lol

I've overheated my stock brakes twice on the dragon. This year these brakes didn't fade a bit and I drove it harder than ever. I got the $256 ticket to prove it :lo5l:. Also beat them real hard at the NG road course and they held up great. These weren't really designed to stop faster hints the brake bias is almost the same as stock. They are designed to put up with more abuse and they have done that. Aesthetically I've been happy also and for the price I don't think I could have done any better.

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They were designed with smaller piston area because the rotor diameter is larger and they are trying to keep the brake bias from being too far forward. You want the brake bias to be close to stock because the car definitely will not stop faster if the fronts lock up and no one has the money Mitsubishi spent in testing making the stock brakes stop in 119 feet from 60 with the tire contact patch that came stock. The fact that they did reduce the piston area means they were thinking about the stock engineering of the car and thats great. It was all about heat transfer not stopping quicker cold versus stock and I respect that. I just know I am a bit turned off by the XYZ, if it was more then that, I would not bother posting here

You can have a local machine shop shave the lettering off (and then can add whatever logo you desire), then you just powercoat them. I could have it done, but shipping the box 4 times isn't going to be cheap. There is no way we'll ever have enough intrest for me to get XYZ to do me the custom logo, as the buy in is probably like 30 sets or more. I'm not fronting THAT much money.

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Originally Posted by anyonebutme

You can have a local machine shop shave the lettering off (and then can add whatever logo you desire), then you just powercoat them. I could have it done, but shipping the box 4 times isn't going to be cheap. There is no way we'll ever have enough intrest for me to get XYZ to do me the custom logo, as the buy in is probably like 30 sets or more. I'm not fronting THAT much money.

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Awww come on now you KNOW we need a http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/a...fnloud/ABM.jpg brand product for our cars ;)

Yep, probably. A machine shop would probably charge and arm and a leg to machine in a logo, they would probably have to make some sort of fixture to hold the caliper level while milling it.

if you are that worried then paint the whole caliper, including the letters, the same color. no one is going to notice then.