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Originally Posted by R Corse
 wut?
I'll tell you what; if you can explain that technical garbage, since you dropped it, I'm here to listen. Otherwise, if you're completely uncertain what it means yourself, 
What Sports Car comes with StopTech Brakes? |
Quite a few actually; Stoptech does a lot of OEM calipers. You just don't hear about it because they are rebranded and there are NDAs and such. I think the IS-F and a lot of toyota/lexus 4-pots are Stoptech.
But what do you need me to explain? It's not a very complex article and is dumbed-down for the average person. Try reading it all the way through.
My point though, is that people get all excited about "monobloc" and "billet" calipers when there is nothing all that special about them and they're not any better than a standard 2-piece caliper. What that means, since you asked, is that the caliper is made of two machined pieces bolted together instead of cut out of one solid chunk. What the article alludes to is that in order to get the same stiffness out of a monobloc you need to run a bunch of steel bolts through it. Not really surprising: they are both about the same shape and made out of the same material (so same E), and the steel bolts is where the stiffness comes from. When you are buying fancy brakes, stiffness is very important. Although probably not as important as piston sizing, pad selection, and parts availability.
Spending $10k for some limited edition set of brakes is like the dumbest thing I've ever heard of. You can almost go to CCM rotors for that.
And aren't endless brakes just rebranded brembos?