Hi Guys,
A quick update: I haven't posted much this past week, but we have been hard at work on our brake system development. We had the car out on Wednesday for testing our Competition Systems. They performed flawlessly during the tests. I had a chance to put in a little wheel time on them, and they felt awesome. Check out some of the details on our blog.

We're full speed ahead on these, and we'll have them on track very soon for a few more evaluations. I'll post more info as we progress. Thanks for your patience!

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We are happy to see AP making good progress on FR-S/BRZ BBK's.

These are actually designed by Essex and only use AP calipers and AP J hook rotors. The rest of the kit is completely Essex engineered and manufactured. There are separate AP racing kits that are completely different then these made by AP.

Any idea how much of my arm or leg I need to cut off for this kit?

Nothing wrong with that.

Agreed, these are much better then the kits AP will be offering. If you are serious about tracking your car that is.

Definitely looking forward to this kit. Just went to the track running Carbotech XP8s - and while the pads were good this car definitely could use a brake upgrade. Totally cooked the brakes, haha.

Hi Guys,
After we got back from testing last week, we decided to confirm the weight of our Sprint Competition Brake System for the BRZ/FR-S. We put all of the brake components from an entire front corner of the car on the scale, and found that our Sprint System saves 10lbs. of unsprung weight per corner. That's 20 lbs. off the nose of the car, and a nice shift in front to rear weight balance.

OEM brakes total weight per front corner= 31.2 lbs.
Essex Sprint Brake System total weight per front corner= 21 lbs.

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I should have the Endurance System on the scale next week (it's on the car now). On that one we're likely looking at a 4-5 lbs. savings per corner vs. stock, which is also more than we initially anticipated.

jeez. ignoring the upgrade in braking performance, you can feel 20lbs of unsprung weight in many cars. that's awesome.

Wow. Well done.

- Andrew

Will have.

@JRitt
I appreciate the rear brakes aren't subject to as much abuse as the fronts but do you think there is any chance of Essex Parts doing a kit for the rear? Not so much for braking but weight reduction?

I love that rainbow on the disc - it proves you've been pushing really hard on the testing

cheers for your care for your finished product reliability !

10 lbs of unsprung weight per front corner, that is huge!