Boykie

To somewhat water down the discussion can we contemplate such an upgrade?
I've recently came to possession of front brembo calipers (sans rotors) from a 12 sport package, in decent shape, 6 pots each.
What I've figured out so far: rotors are not expensive and available, but differ from 4pot ones; you have to have 19inch rims (hoping my 5 spoke 19 ones ok?); brake pads are shockingly expensive. Like 600 bucks for an original (pagid?) set.
Discuss!
Excuse me please, if this has been discussed.
I have no problems with how strong stock brakes are, but, seeing that I've already made an 'upgrade monster car' - why not? Those are customer's order that hasn't been paid in 1+ month. So I'm keeping or selling.

Striker223

They should fit fine, pads are pricy but you can go with aftermarket.....people usually complain of excessive brake dust but that's normal for aggressive pads.

Initial bite is somewhat improved but the system doesn't have a real pedal feel, everything to an extent with some exception is done via a stoke simulator. Fade resistance will go up nicely and in theory brake consistency as well but that's only when going hard on track.

I've never really felt my stock type ones had heat soak issues or any problems with flutter etc....they seem fine after 4-6 130-40 slowdowns

jdanielca

ive been thinking of doing this, but i have not come upon decently priced calipers. i do not know about you, but the way traffic goes here, you are constantly on your brakes. the way the cobble stone is... the slopes up and down... etc... the brakes go quickly, you really dont want to be that ******* to not move quickly because it would literally f up traffic in the whole city hahahaahhaha there is no space for that here.... one couple of a holes not doing it right messes up traffic for kilometers down the road .

swfla

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They'd sure look great painted. For me, the stock brakes are great on the street (I've had several close calls). But the look of big red calipers would be my reason for doing it.

Boykie

Btw stock 6pots are black and rather subtle.

swfla

iTrader: (1)

For my personal taste, I'd have them painted. Might not be to your taste though. Hope you can get them swapped out with no trouble.

Boykie

Thanks for all input! I'll give it another think. I think black ones will look cool with my black (217) paint. I guess I'll start with pricing in some aftermarket pads.

Anfanger

I do like calipers painted same color as the body, it just looks good to me.

swfla

iTrader: (1)

Black on black sounds beautiful.

NotFasty

Compared to what I just paid, $600 for pads is stupid expensive. I think I did all 4 corners of aftermarket Centric pads/rotors for less.

Tec80

The best Brembo pads are Power Stop, around $40 a set. Remember to switch the rotors around R to L, because Lexus made a mistake and installed them backwards from the factory.

lexman52

???????????? What?

Tec80

The fins in the rotor form a centrifugal fan, which draws air from the center and flings it out the rim of the rotor. Brembo's own directions for rotor orientation clearly show that the R & L part numbers on LS460 Sport have those vanes rotating backwards. I put mine on the correct way, and they work better. There's another thread on this.

Tec80

The other thread: https://www.clublexus.com/forums/ls-...l#post10940890

BlazeViper

Congratulations on scoring a set of 6 pot calipers, I looked into them when I donated my 460's stock calipers to my GS 430 but the buy in was too much for me. As I'm sure you've figured out there are 3 rotor and caliper sizes for this car,
base 4 pot (335mm)
sport/touring/AWD/hybrid 4 pot (360mm)
brembo 6 pot (380mm)

I found a nice price on some touring package calipers and could still fit my winter 18s so I went with that but would totally splurge for the 6 pot if finances let me.