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Old Oct 12, 2007 | 08:03 PM
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Great choice of brake hardware, congrats on the new stoppers! Over 10K miles on my Wilwoods and they perform flawless.
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Old Oct 12, 2007 | 08:06 PM
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Great job on the brakes.

Really looks
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Old Oct 12, 2007 | 08:16 PM
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It's funny...

More times than a few at car shows and even a few local friends have the upgraded brake kit. Not sure who's kit it is...but the REARS are larger than the fronts(rotors)

Umm, if I'm not mistaken...your FRONTS are your primaries and SHOULD be larger. Most of your braking is done in front.(Split to the rears of course)

What gives with these rear rotors that are larger.? It doesn't make sense to me.
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Old Jan 30, 2008 | 10:58 AM
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Originally Posted by J Z06
It's funny...

More times than a few at car shows and even a few local friends have the upgraded brake kit. Not sure who's kit it is...but the REARS are larger than the fronts(rotors)

Umm, if I'm not mistaken...your FRONTS are your primaries and SHOULD be larger. Most of your braking is done in front.(Split to the rears of course)

What gives with these rear rotors that are larger.? It doesn't make sense to me.
bling 75-80% stopping power is from the front.
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Old Jan 30, 2008 | 04:24 PM
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Quote: Purerock105 "Definitely not cheap, but I can't stop the voices in my head telling me to do it, so whatever, you only live once."

I have the same problem with those voices in my head telling me to do it also!

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Old Jan 30, 2008 | 06:17 PM
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Those look sick dude. Very very nice
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Old Jan 30, 2008 | 06:19 PM
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very nice
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Old Jan 30, 2008 | 06:38 PM
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Looks Nice and I too know about the voices in the head....
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those things are BIG.
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Old Jan 30, 2008 | 07:46 PM
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Nice looking setup

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