Originally posted by MrFatBooty
The stock brakes with good pads are more than fine for everything except serious road racing use. Any sort of big brake kit is overkill and won't stop you any faster with the amount of traction provided by street tires.
The Wilwood kit fits under 16" SSR Competitions which you are into. I hate to reference SCC but their project EG Civic has both 16" Competitions and the Wilwood brake kit.
Look at the tire size, you can see that it's 205/45-16.
Fastbrakes sells a kit using 11" rotors and a Wilwood 4-piston caliper which fits under most 15" wheels.
No matter how light any given wheel is, the 16" version is going to be lighter than the 17" version. But whatever, while I feel that 16" are the quasi-ideal size, 17" wheels aren't going to make your car blow up and spray itself in a million pieces all over the road.
Ah, so it does. I thought for sure it didn't but here we are.
Yeah, and the 16" SSR is far less than the 17 in price. I am also not going for flash, if I was I wouldn't be spending all that money on the SSR's.
I will have to think about 16's. From what I have seen so far, they look pretty good.
-Diabolik