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Old 07-31-2014, 03:45 AM   #9
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Why in the first place do you need e55 brakes? You want to be baller? There is nothing baller about owning and driving a S-chassis car. Sell both your S14s and get E55 or E63 if you want to start on the road of being "BALLER".

You want baller brakes just beacuse? Fine, get a full front and rear set of ENDLESS, Project Mu, AP Racing, Brembo GT, or Alcon racing calipers if you want to be "BALLER".

The only benefit of running that setup is to ADD weight to your car. Using Google I quickly found that a E55 brembo caliper is a lil shy of 11lbs each vs the 8lb Evo brembo. Add in the weight of the rotors (unless you drop $800+ for the 2pc rotors) your probably adding anywhere from 5-10lbs of extra weight per corner on the front of your car. That means your engine has to work that much harder to move that extra weight and your suspension has to handle the extra sprung weight. That's why the big boy brakes kits are light weight billet calipers and usually come with 2pc rotors (alum hat) to reduce the added weight on the suspension.
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