Product Details
Apollo Series Slotted Balanced Brake Kit with BlueStuff Brake Pads by EBC®. EBC’s Apollo Balanced Brake Kit represents the ultimate upgrade in braking performance, offering significant reductions in stopping distances whether used on the road or track. It’s supplied with all the hardware to completely replace all equivalent components of your vehicle’s stock braking system, giving a firmer and responsive brake pedal feel and allowing you to drive harder for longer without the onset of brake fade.
Features
- Designed to replace all equivalent components of your OE braking system
- Supplied with matching friction pads to fit the original caliper
- Braided brake lines for a totally balanced brake upgrade
- Brake disc bell and caliper brackets are made from aerospace grade billet aluminum for high strength
- Brake calipers utilize a 2-piece bolted design for added caliper stiffness
- Caliper bodies are machined from heat treated low pressure castings for noticeable performance
- Calipers are painted using an advanced high-temperature Teflon polyester coating process
- Fully floating 2-piece rotors for better heat dissipation and resistance to cracking
- Friction rings are cast from high carbon G3500 alloy giving excellent wear properties
- Equipped with Yellowstuff pads that deliver excellent cold bite and zero brake noise
The Balanced Brake Kit has been designed from the ground up to perform right down to the very last bleed nipple. It is designed for a full vehicle upgrade and is supplied complete with matching EBC’s flagship fast street and track Yellowstuff™ front and rear brake pads to fit the original caliper and braided brake lines for the front and rear, ensuring a totally balanced brake upgrade that delivers maximum braking performance. Every single brake caliper metal fitting and brake disc is manufactured from stainless steel, and each brake disc bell and caliper brackets are machined from aerospace grade billet aluminum for high strength and durability.
Apollo series brake calipers reflect the EBC philosophy of providing top-quality products at affordable prices. They utilize a 2-piece bolted design, incorporating high tensile 12.9 grade steel bolts for reinforcement of the caliper bridge section. This significant improves caliper stiffness compared to a mono-block design. A stiffer bridge section means less elongation during brake apply, giving a firmer and more responsive pedal feel, especially after a period of harder braking where the aluminum bridge of a mono-block design caliper softens appreciably with increasing temperature.
Unlike the vast majority of cast calipers, which are typically gravity cast, Apollo Series caliper bodies are machined from heat treated low pressure castings, which gives EBC’s Apollo series brake calipers a noticeable performance advantage over conventional gravity cast calipers, exhibiting higher overall strength and a comparable caliper body stiffness to forging. Besides, every caliper is finished using the patented advanced high-temperature Teflon polyester coating process that gives a durable, fade resistant coating that’s easy to wipe clean and ensures that Apollo calipers will look great for years to come.
The organic aramid fiber construction of Bluestuff™ pads resists heat buildup that plagues inferior pads, so you won't have to compensate for reduced effectiveness after brake fluid gets hot enough to boil in the lines. And Bluestuff™ pads are designed to hold together under extreme, heavy use. Instead of using rivets to secure pad material and backing plate together, Bluestuff™ pads use an additional layer between the two in order to form a strong chemical bond that provides three times the resistance of pad separation or shear. Four balancing weights built in to the backing plates of Bluestuff™ pads ensure high-frequency vibration is cancelled out to eliminate squealing noise.
Founded and based in the United Kingdom, EBC Brakes® is a premiere producer of brake components for passenger cars, trucks, buses, motorcycles, ATVs, and even scooters. EBC brake pads and rotors are preferred by fleet operators of emergency vehicles, livery cabs, and by discerning racers all over the world for the effective grip, superior lifespan, resistance to heat buildup, and proper fit they deliver. From the company president down to every employee, EBC strongly believes that brake components that are truly superior must be constructed from the most effective materials and also offer the lowest environmental impact possible. Likewise, EBC will never put their name on any products that cut corners in development, quality control, or are manufactured using sweatshop working conditions where human rights are not valued. When you want the best, most responsible brake components that meet or exceed OEM specification without dealer OEM markup, EBC Brakes is the only name you need to know.