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Originally Posted by industrial
I went with stoptechs mostly because my car is street driven with the occasional track event. I was concerned that with the AP kit I would forever have loud brakes (see thread about this here) which being honest, would cause me to not want to drive my BRZ on the street. They are constantly tearing up the roads around me and it's very dusty. I don't drive my car in the winter but I will drive it late into the fall and early spring. The dust boots in the stoptechs don't seem to be a huge track liability like JRitt makes it out to be. They haven't been any issues for me but do look around. JRitt makes the exact same stoptech vs. essex speech on every forum I've come across. I'm sure either would be a great piece of kit but I just don't see enough benefit (~6lb less weight) from the sprint kit to pick that over a quiet, much more street friendly stoptech kit. I'm all about weight loss too but the trade offs don't seem worth it. I don't want to spend $400 on pads just to find something that'll be quiet on the street for a short amount of time before I have to rebed them. I don't want to rebuild them every year because they are internally caked with dirt.
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That's exactly the information I was looking for. Thanks! I am leaning heavily on the Stoptech kit for the reasons you mentioned. Being more street friendly means more to me than being more track oriented as it is street driven 95% of the time.