Brembo Brakes

Ordered my Brembo Big Brake kit earlier this week, and the rear rotors arrived today. The front rotors will soon arrive, and the calipers will be finished and will arrive later next month. What I didn't know was Brembo does custom painting. So now knowing this, I ordered the 8-pot calipers to match the exterior Redwood Metallic paint. It'll be a one stage paint process, but that also includes a high-temp clear coat after the paint. I didn't want to stand out with their flashy red, yellow, or lime green calipers, so I went with something low key. As expected, I'll drop more pictures when all of my components arrive, or when everything is installed.

For those of you interested in updates on my AT4, my Brembo 8-piston brakes arrived yesterday. The plan is to have them installed next week. I'll be sure to post pictures after the install.

You can't see the color matched calipers, but you can see the amount of space those rotors take up inside the 24's. So far they're solid when it comes to stopping, and they don't generate any brake dust. The calipers are also easy to clean because of the large windows between rim spokes. I've only had them on for a few days now and haven't encountered any hard braking, but never say never.

Having these brakes certainly adds a lot more cleaning of the front wheel barrels. I clean the vehicle twice weekly, so I never let the wheels get too filthy. I still get the "thumbs up", the small talk when I'm at the public car wash, and the covert picture taking by people in my blind spot while driving, but I'm use to it.