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Im currently deciding whether or not to purchase 19 wheels. The only setback is the puny 11.6 inch rear brakes. If i wanted to get 19s, i would also want to shorten the wheel/brake gap. Anybody know any good tuners with good brake systems for front and rear`? i checked brembo's website but i didnt see a kit for the c32.
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Originally Posted by HansC32
Im currently deciding whether or not to purchase 19 wheels. The only setback is the puny 11.6 inch rear brakes. If i wanted to get 19s, i would also want to shorten the wheel/brake gap. Anybody know any good tuners with good brake systems for front and rear`? i checked brembo's website but i didnt see a kit for the c32.
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I sell either brembo or stoptech. Both brands you can either get a 355mm (14" rotor) front or 332mm front (13" rotor). The rear will be a 328mm (12.9" rotor) with a 4 piston caliper.
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Originally Posted by HansC32
Thx for the reply, ill let u know once im back in the states. Which is next week....
Great! just email me when you you get back. I'd be more then happy to help.
Where are you btw?
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Im in Taipei, Taiwan now. I live in San Francisco =)
anyone from the bay? id like to see yer cars!!!
By the way how are stoptech brakes compared to brembos?
anyone from the bay? id like to see yer cars!!!
By the way how are stoptech brakes compared to brembos?
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I have the StopTech's and the fastening bolts are different than the Brembo's and don't make noise due to their design. I have driven and inspected a E36 M3 with a front and rear Brembo kit. You can wiggle the fastening bolts and washers with your fingers and this "expansion gap" causes a slight metal vibration sound if you listen carefully while driving the car on the street at normal operating temperatures. When the temps increase with aggressive driving or track use, the disk and hat expand at different rates and fill up this gap in theory, but who is listening for this when you are having fun
The car I saw had an older Brembo system on the car, not the new Austin Martin/GT1 caliper and may not have had the latest floating disk technology. The new Gran Turismo kits may have solved this sound problem.
Vadim, what sized pistons are you using in your front 355 caliper? 40/44, 38/42, or 36/40? Are the disks 28, 32, or 34mm thick? Brembo makes a great product. Just a bit pricey compared to the competition.
The car I saw had an older Brembo system on the car, not the new Austin Martin/GT1 caliper and may not have had the latest floating disk technology. The new Gran Turismo kits may have solved this sound problem.
Vadim, what sized pistons are you using in your front 355 caliper? 40/44, 38/42, or 36/40? Are the disks 28, 32, or 34mm thick? Brembo makes a great product. Just a bit pricey compared to the competition.
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Originally Posted by smgC32
Brembo makes a great product. Just a bit pricey compared to the competition.
Actually, we sell the stoptech and brembos for pretty much the same price. So its pretty much up to which brand you like better. The only thing I like better about brembo is that they offer a cross drilled and slotted rotor and stoptech says it to weak for them to make one. I still may get a set of stoptech for my own car oneday though.
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Originally Posted by Jon Winter
With the stock brakes, spacers were required on the SSR GT-3s. No wheel spacers are used in the pics.
You mean the spacers were only required on the front stock right? i remember my old c230 with SSR GT3s, the rear stock caliper was right up to the wheel, i was surprised those huge brakes fit with no spacers.
btw, any chance of some more pics of your car futher away?
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Originally Posted by individualsole
What is pricing for one of these packages? Does one perform better than the other. I would rahter have the red brembo caliper, but that's my opinion.
Pricing for a 332mm brembo kit is like 2,579 and a 355mm is 2,999 from us.
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The Integra won it's class in the 2003 24 hrs of Spa. We have it set up for Speed World Challange Touring car racing. With the correct brake pads the brake system works very well at the track. I'm not going too talk about the kit prices, but retail price for replacement front discs are $500 each.
