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I was looking for something else on Google images and saw them pop up which led me to them.

I have bought a fair bit of stuff off Aliexpress like titanium bolts and step drills, and they are well up to the task for the price.

Engineered parts though, I'm still a bit skeptical about

Just stick the same factory that 50% of brake brands use for big brake kits out of Taiwan.

Cost price is like $700-900USD for a pair plus shipping for 4-6pots including pads/rotors/lines. Its just that most brands put decent mark-up on it. You can get them without a brand on the side of them, I dont know how you could get a set off them though...

Source: I got sponsored a set and it included cost-price invoicing.

Seems like every Japanese 'tuning' company has their own brake kits (looks the same as the ATTKD/D2 ones).

Those are the ones out of Taiwan. 326 Power, every VIP company in Japan, all the US instagram companies operating oout of someones loungeroom, etc

 

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On 6/20/2017 at 7:58 AM, Leroy Peterson said:

Just stick the same factory that 50% of brake brands use for big brake kits out of Taiwan.

Cost price is like $700-900USD for a pair plus shipping for 4-6pots including pads/rotors/lines. Its just that most brands put decent mark-up on it. You can get them without a brand on the side of them, I dont know how you could get a set off them though...

Source: I got sponsored a set and it included cost-price invoicing.

So you have been the guinea pig by the sounds of it :19_kissing: Which "non-brand brakes" did you get and what was the quality like?

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but when components are manufactured in China for a big company and the patent runs out, I'm sure that the manufacturing company is free to manufacture those designs from then on without approval? EG, all the carbon frames that the likes of Giant and Specialized get manufactured over there all have identical charbon copies. I know that one big hub company that has $200+ hubs is made under the same roof as the $70 Novatec hubs, only the brand name constitutes massive price hike and QC is not as stringent.

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My friend started selling brakes with his own business on them "Diamond Brake Design". I haven't really pushed them yet, but I was impressed at how straight-forward installation was. Everything in the kit was spot-on.

When we both saw top cars at WTAC and Aus/NZ Endurance racing use brakes from the same factory, so they do a pretty stellar job for amateur and semi-professional requirements. Obviously if someone was super serious about the setup you would source your own rotors and pads and probably have you're own brake lines too. So the kit would be just for the calipers and mounting bracket.

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