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Originally Posted by Z06ZN6
Ooooooh, nice teaser pic! I just started looking at brakes too but am probably a few months away from doing anything. What rotors are you considering? Are you sticking with the red color on the calipers or doing a color change? 
I don't think the new Brides are that bad. They look a bit strange as a stand alone seat in a photo but installed in a modern car they seem to work well (see pic below, which is not my car). The black stradia 3s aren't that much different than the 2s and the red stitch would match your interior. The red seats on the other hand I would prefer they lose the black/cf material shoulder and resume the logo gradation, but I'd still buy them as I love the Bride fit compared to the Sparcos and Recaros I've tested in the past. I run the red gradation Zeta 3's in my cars and do 5 hour one way road trips every two weeks, six months out of the year, without tiring. Thankfully, I have spare Zetas on the shelf which will probably bridge me to the Zeta 5.
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I can't decide if I want to just put on the stock rotors the PP Brembos came with or upgrade to Girodisc 2-piece. You have to grind off a section of the backing plate on the rear pads to get them to fit.
I also can't decide if I want to get the calipers refinished in black or keep them red. I actually conducted a poll on here for people to vote between red and black calipers on my car, and red won 15 to 9. On some level I feel the car has too many colors on its palette (black, red, silver, and bronze) and I contemplate going with black calipers and switching the interior parts with red stitch over to 2017+ 86 versions with the silver stitch. I am actually leaning towards red right now because getting the calipers powder coated is more expensive than I thought and it would actually make more sense to just sell the PP Brembos and buy the Brembo GT kits in black at that point.
For the new Brides, I could probably get over the circular belt cutouts but the "+" shaped back padding has not grown on me. I really need to sit in some Brides and Recaros in the next few months before I make any decisions.
That Supra looks amazing! The red seats and white wheels really pop on the black.