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Originally Posted by churchx
toast: one question: why we have only fronts from wrx and rear rotors from legacy gt if brakes supposedly are same as for car with different weight distribution and drivetrain?
Also you are not forgetting proportioning at master cylinder, which can be further selected from available parts by manufacturer to tailor to specific rotor sizing/brake caliper distance from center/pad shape & area/slave pistons sizing to get the right bias.
Sport cars can get by with having proportioning valve to adjust bias, more expertise and testing time & budget to get right bias. Does average Joe has these bits to get it right by hunch feel? To not potentially fsck up system as important as brakes best one can do is to not blindly change parts. Not having brembo branding on calipers or few lb-s more of weight is better & safer then changing brakes with no care. Both for tracked & daily driven car.
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Like I said, bias of car A and B can be different (via brake kit and proportioning valve), as can weight distribution.
This thread is supposed to be about the Wilwood kit. That is all I'm referring to. The average Joe is not combining random bits with the kit in question.
There is a kit by Wilwood to replace
a front brake system. Unless it changes bias a lot by using different piston area and lever arm, it does not matter what car it goes on. If the OEM brakes worked on a given car the replacement kit will work on that car.
Let's make this simpler. My BRZ uses the same O2 sensor as my wife's Mazda CX-5. The manufacturers use different part numbers and charge radically different prices for the two units, but ordered from a parts warehouse they are both the identical Bosch units. Would you argue against using the cheaper mazda O2 sensor on the BRZ?