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Originally Posted by NewHavensFinest
For example, you can buy a full brake kit made by Brembo or Wildwood for a Volkswagen and spend $5000. OR you can match up stock/OEM parts from an Audi or a Porsche that will easily swap over at a fraction of the price and still give you better braking.
You can have the best brakes in the world and it wont mean anything unless you have good tires. Its all in the tires, and good pads too.
Factory brakes are usually sufficient in most cases besides actual racing and high speed and constant hardcore use and abuse.
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Part one, yep: sure can. Via eBay, for example. I'm about to do this on a Ducati motorcycle, as various Brembo calipers are used on various bikes (KTM, Ducati, possibly others). They show up on eBay often. It's easier to work on bikes, everything is right there (accessible), though doing-same on cars isn't rocket science either with proper tools and a lift (or good jacks).
Tires, pads, and brake lines. Yep, again. I see brake lines are getting better all the time, on bikes at-least. That used to be a high-performance kind of mod, too: switching to stainless tended to resolve all sorts of fade issues.
Factory brakes are "usually" sufficient, indeed. My personal opinion is up-spec'ing calipers, pads, and rotors is an expensive, but enjoyable (in how they feel) mod for "some" vehicles. I did this to my Toyota Tacoma XRunner the day I ordered it from Toyota, the TRD Big Brake kit (calipers, pads, rotors) which took the stock brakes from "marginal at-best" to "excellent, though not quite stupendous." To me, it was worth it for about $3K right from Toyota, but I tend to run vehicles pretty hard (without being a maniac) on the street, too.
OP may or may not derive $8K or whatever of absolute use from aftermarket brakes, but as I like to say: "know thyself!"
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