I almost feel like this is "feeling insane power from an intake", by some of the responses. Im not exactly sure, but I think the brembos have only shown, to stop the car like 7-10 feet shorter than the non brembo cars...while something is better than nothing...its not a massive difference. But they do not fade nearly as bad as the non brembo'd cars, but not sure how much in reality of just normal you would be avoiding.
I got the brembo package with my car, mostly because I personally think they look sick and they came with better wheels, which I really like. Also, I feel i have noticed slight fade in the non brembo cars, ive owned in the past (not sure if that's just my imganation) in some of my spirited driving I do...so I figured why not just avoid that being a worry. also...while not a big difference they do stop shortet as well and only if 7 feet, that's 1 & 1/2 car lengths and could mean avoiding an accident...all of those coupled with getting them added at dealer cost and really only moving my car payment by $20 a month, I figured might as well.
I think factory take offs for under 500.00 is money well spent for good looks and the other things above, but a full fledge after market kit, unless you road race or just have mass amounts of money to burn...those funds could go to better things on the car.
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The reason the track pack/Brembo cars stop shorter is because of the different tires than the standard GT.
I can assure you, if we took a V6 Mustang from my generation, my Mustang, a base 5.0, a Track pack GT and the pre 2013 GT500 and lined them up, ballasted them to the same weight, put the same wheels and tires on them all and put in super robo driver guy who is hyper consistent, all generations would brake to zero in the same distance.
Why?
It's physics. Your braking potential is limited by the grip the tires produce. I can assure you that right now on 265 wide Hankook RS3's (one of the stickiest non r-Comp street tires available) I can get into ABS pretty easily on stock pads, stock rotors, stock lines, and stock fluid. Why is ABS important? Because ABS is Anti-
lock Brakes. Basically there is enough brake torque in my tiny ass 12.4" rotors to lock up the wheel so that the ABS system has to pulse to keep the wheel moving.
That all matters because the tires we use (whatever we chose to use in said test) all have the same braking potential, the car has the same weight and momentum. The differences, if any, in stopping distances will then come down to tire variations from batch to batch and tire from tire. That difference will be a foot or two at most.
What you do change going from the 11.whatever V6 rotors from 05-10 to the 14" Brembos is brake torque (which changes how the brakes feel, but doesn't change stopping distances any), pad selection, and the ability to soak in more heat in the braking system and better pad wear when driven aggresively. I have yet to get brake fade on my 09 from Autocross so that is why I said it's a pretty worthless upgrade for autocross use. For road course use they are a requirement, with cooling, stainless steel lines and good fluid with good pads.
The Calipers themselves are probably the same weight.
