A bigbrake upgrade won’t stop your car any sooner. Stopping distance is determined by the grip your tires have, not how powerful your brakes are. So unless you’re overheating (fading) your brakes to the point where they can no longer lock your wheels, a bigbrake upgrade won’t actually accomplish anything.

Bigger brakes have more thermal capacity, meaning they can stop more times before they overheat — but upgrading just the front brakes can increase front bias, overutilizing those brakes relative to the rears and therefore reducing any benefit you might have gotten in the first place.

If you want to upgrade your brakes, you’re better off upgrading the brake pads — at both ends — and fluid. Then, add cooling ducts. And if that’s not enough, make sure you upgrade the whole system — front, rear, and master cylinder.

But you’re too cheap to do that, aren’t ya. Yeah, we thought so.


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