Talk to me about brakes...

[alexk]

I think the consensus is the following.

The OEM discs are very good quality. Unfortunately they are matched to the single-piston calipers.

- If you put a good pad on the OEM calipers (i.e. Pagid RS29) you will have very good brakes that will not fade. The negative thing is the lack of feeling or modulation. The brake has an on/off feeling.
Having said that, the car does brake very good (never ran out of brakes with this setup in Monza) but squeals like HELL.

- A budget solution is having Porsche 4-piston calipers on the OEM discs. The results are very good (better modulation, larger pad surface) while the cost is low. MattCSLNut and others run this setup and they are happy with it.

- The AP Racing kit offers better modulation, better feeling and consistency. The feeling of the brakes is very good and trail-braking is very easy to do. In general they don't have issues especially when mated with Performance Friction discs.

- Other kits Alcon, Brembo, Movit etc are also good. In some cases pedal travel is increased. I guess here the question is why to pay 20,30,50% more when you have the same performance with the AP kit.
Anyhow a 385mm is not going to be an improvement over the 356mm of the AP kit as it will just increase weight and moment of inertia on the front wheels