I was looking around for parts and came across these for sale. As much as I like them, they are an arm and a leg to buy. Then again they are Brembros and this is whay i come to expect.

http://www.speedelement.com/index.ph...mart&Itemid=38

 

Yea thoes look good but...there expensive and you have too have 19" wheels to put them on correctly. Also the right offsets. Which possibly means rolling the finders and stuff which is another
2k.

they should have made them around 17" i mean how do make brakes for the car and not fit them to the stock rims......boo breambo boo

 

lol if your gonna rock brembo bbk you shouldnt be rolling on stocker anyways haha but if what i have heard all bbk for the RA is gonna require a lower offset to clear the calipers in the front or just get better pads and rotors if you wanna rock the stock offset

 

The rotors are 14.6", and I don't see why Brembo would make what would be essentially stock sized rotors if they were to fit under 17" wheels. You may be able to get them to fit under certain 18" wheels.

 

I just mean our rims our 18" so you guys saying that the 19" is just for the the break shoe thingy.

well I guess I'll be looking for some bigger wheels then.

 

The caliper? Unless you're racing or something like that, I see no reason why you'd want to or need to spend 3000$ on bigger brakes. Some better pads and fluid is enough for most people. If these brakes do indeed require bigger wheels with a more aggressive offset, they could easily balloon into a 5000$+ modification (3000$ for the brakes, 2000$+ for the wheels, tires and modifications).

 

caliper that's spell it! LOL.

Yes thats what I was saying. I guess I just get nice drill or slotted ones and some better pads. sweet.

 

Rotors are rotors, I would honestly just buy some rotors at NAPA and use those unless you want the look of nice rotors, which is perfectly understandable. Since rotors are a wear item, if you're doing something that really abuses the brakes, it doesn't make a lot of sense to spend big bucks on something you replace regularly. To give you an idea on that, I went through 3 sets of front rotors and pads this season. All of the rotors were replaced because they were wrecked (cracked, heat scored or destroyed by the metal backing plate of the pads melting to their surface).

 

Would it be possible to replace the brake pads with something better to reduce the stopping distance?
Or is going all out and putting on a big brake kit the only way to slow down this car quicker?

 

like amby said.. getting better pads can do wonders for your stopping distance/power

 

BBKs don't slow a car down any quicker.

 

Sounds like I need to replace the brake pads then!

Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated

This looked interesting...
http://www.ralliart.com/09topics/090729.html

 

They'll be vastly overpriced given that they're Ralliart.

 

BBK kits do slow the car down quicker, period. I couldn't bear not commenting when I read that. But unless you are putting alot of power down and are overwhelming the brakes, which you will see with excessive brake fade, they really arn't necessary. - Mechanical Engineer

 

No they don't. Physics denies it as a possibility, that being that larger brakes result in lower stopping distances or times.
Stopping force is defined by the pressure applied to the pad and the coefficient of friction of the pad material. For a single panic stop, these are the only factors to consider which are dependent on the hydraulic pressure of the system and the pads used, not the size of the pads, rotors, calipers, etc.