Aftermarket brakes???

What is ToyotER? Did a quick search and nothing came up with that & tacoma brakes. Have a link?

 

how did you find the upgrade of just front and keeping the rear drums? worth $2k? did you do the install yourself? which rotor option did you go with?

 

I’m still waiting on my 17” wheels that will clear the brakes. I decided to upgrade the rears with the Stoptech 4-pistons while I’m waiting. Once I have everything I will probably have it installed professionally.

 

I drive hard on my 17X8" wheels and only got 50k miles worth of driving until I began to feel uncomfortable, so I went to NAPA and got their $69 dollar lifetime edition front brake pads. At that rate, I'll be a long time before I could ever get my money back on an upgrade. And it only takes about 15 minutes to R&R those so why bother?

But that could just be me

Cheers!

 

Noob question but is the purpose of that spindle to give you more travel without going long travel?

 

kind of like MatER from Pixar Cars movie.

 

Looks like it's just a gusseted stock one. Gussets are for reliability and keeping them from bending

 

^^ This ^^

Just to strengthen the factory Spindle. I have the BajaKits gussets.

 

It would seem to me that aftermarket brakes would be a bigger player in the racing community than the off roading community.

 

I bet $20 95% of people would never notice the rear discs over the drum. Ive never had a moment where I said "this truck NEEDS better brakes". Then again my 16 was basically stock and my 21 is painfully stock.

 

Anybody with some machining work could make brackets to fit the large array of cheap OEM provided Brembo calipers to damned near anything.