I know some of you will love this
http://www.eycatchercalipercover.com/index.asp

 

WTF - are those just stuck on?

 

wow. just wow. things that they make these days

 

That's real fine...plastic caliper covers for the ricer challenged... that's HAS to be the MOST bogus thing I've seen yet

 

Perfectly put.

As soon as these come out: I give it a week before I see them on a Civic here in So Cal.

 

Rice galore. Mercedes and BMW owners are going to jump all over this like a fat kid loves cake, according to their photo gallery.

 

im already all over this! hahaha i'll get them for my crx and i'll tell you how better my braking will be..haha

 

Interesting... how is this any worse than painting your calipers?

-hS

 

i hate painted calipers...too civicish!

 

yup, i'm not going to paint or plastic cover my brakes... but its interesting to see how quickly people flame this while praising painted brakes.

I think either this or painted calipers are fine on your car, its your car... whatever makes you happy, BUT i would never do either to mine.

-hS

 

Saw fake brake rotors on a near new BMW 325...coudln't believe it and had to take a closer look...

 

if i were to ever paint my calipers, i would repaint them the same color that they are...haha that weird dark grey color..haha..i hate painted on red calipers, it looks so toyish to me, like poseur wannabe after market calipers..but thats just my opinion..

 

it smells like kung pao chicken in here ...

 

There is actually a pretty huge difference between painting your calipers and putting on fake 'big brake' calipers. Anytime you pretend to be something you're not, it's lame. These 'big brake' covers are about as cool as having Greddy Turbo stickers on an 8 without a turbo. The term 'poseur' comes to mind. Painting your calipers is simply expressing your idividuality, or tastes, it's not pretending to be anything.

 

LOL, did you read the FAQ, 1st question/answer

 

painting calipers are still toy

 

There's a significant dif between these pathetic plastic covers and painted calipers in all respects, as far as I'm concerned. First, and this is a personal choice, I like a car (or a person, or most anything for that matter) that is well kept, both fuctionally and asthetically. Second, obviously asthetics and cleanliness are personal choices, but IMO any car's rusty hubs /corroded calipers simply look like crap. Most cars wheels are well covered up so NBD, but ours are not, they're so obvious as to be painful to look at when not taken care of, and look like crap. Bad Mazda in the 1st place for leaving them that way. But ANY color, black, yellow, red, blue, silver, brown, maybe even the pink I saw here yesterday are prefereable to corroded dirty greasy base metal left that way (no..I take that back...pink is really pretty borderline something).

2 cents worth to those who think clean neat things are ricer...I think you've got issues - not that there's anything wrong with having issues, mind you.

 

Well said Spin9k, i agree. The plastic callipers are for people who just want to "cover up" problems... from watching the install video on the website its cleary easier to cover your old callipers than to actually take the time and care to clean them first, clean rust away grit etc. and paint them carefully protecting them in the long run too. People who put the effort into thier cars should get respect for it.

 

im going to buy these and paint them the same color as my stock calipers then...haha

 

The fake calipers/rotors are rice because it's pretending to be a performance upgrade. Painting the calipers isn't necessarily rice, it could just be to have a clean look like spin9k said.

 

Well if you're painting to clean.. yeah thats fine.
But alot of people pain theirs red to make it seem like they have upgraded calipers.

I guess it just depends

-hS

 

These people seem to be pretty confident in their product to post that.
After seeing the site agin, they seem to have a pretty smooth operation there.

-hS

 

LOL, don't forget to stuff a large rolled up sport sock into your underwear too, it's not like anyone is ever going to find out ...

hS, unyielding confidence is what a con man uses to grease you up before the massive insertion

 

anyone know how much more hp the type R kit adds?

 

I like it!
I'm getting at less two for each wheel so I ll have the newest TBS. that is TBS(twin break system) 90 to 5mph in 28'7". I have seen the QBS setup but I think thats for track use only.