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Originally Posted by Captain Insano
Seriously thanks for posting this. I am soooo torn between ST and AP... I DD my car in IL winters and the car sees road salt. I pressure wash it literally every week in winter to get that shit off and I think it makes a huge difference from a corrosion perspective. I REALLY want to DD/track the AP sprint kit due to quality and also weight. I am a huge weight Nazi...
J Ritt from Essex can you comment on the possibility of a street oriented DD/track offering that would shave weight like the sprint kit and be less susceptible to salt corrosion. If nothing is coming I may just get the sprint kit and be more anal about cleaning it in winter. Maybe like twice a week!
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One more thing to consider...if you are pressure washing, I don't think paint or powder coating takes very kindly to pressure washing! I remember seeing a thread about that on NSX prime a while back. Most likely you'd run into chipping and flaking.
If you planned to own your car for 3 years and run the numbers as I illustrate above, you'll realize that it would cost you less to buy a spare set of AP Racing CP8350 calipers vs. buying the StopTech kit once all long-term running costs are taken into account. CP8350's are $1100 a pair. During that time you could beat your first set of AP's to a tragic death, sell them used, buy another set, keep one set as spares, etc. No matter how you slice it you'd still come out ahead on cost.
