(June 9, 2015 at 8:33 am)ignoramus Wrote: Tell me why so many performance cars use brembo than any other non oem brand. Are they that good, or just good value performance brakes.
Brembo is our biggest competitor in the high end caliper business, and they are known for their radical engineering designs that sell well to someone looking for flash. I'm pretty sure Brembo doesn't make any friction material though. I think that is farmed out for them. They use Performance Friction as their main friction material supplier for their OEM pads.
Brembo and PBR/Bosch/Akebono pass sports cars around like hot potatoes. We don't like the "A" surface paint requirements for expensive sports cars because scrap costs eat up all of the profit. Brembo somehow manages to make a profit from "A" surface quality parts (no scratches) even though our CMM controlled process are better and our machining is more precise.
I think the future is for more painted calipers though, so we will have to adapt more than Brembo.
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