Rotor Design: The material is a proprietary Hi-Carbon Steel, the same material Mugen uses for the brakes on their GT Race Cars. The "Reverse Bench Design" is again, designed just for this application; fig. A illustrates how this design draws air from the hub, and forces it out between the rotor faces. With more, and larger vanes, the Mugen rotors move substantially more air, and as the illustration shows, they draw it from a large opening in the front, instead of a small opening in the back. The hats have cooling holes, which also reduce unsprung weight. The braking surface grooves are offset, front to back to eliminate brake judder. The rotors are also thicker and have a bigger circumference to give stronger braking and handle excessive heat. The rotors are 3/8” larger than OEM and there are 18 additional cooling fins.



Caliper Design: This is a from-scratch design of a true monoblock. If you have a rigid caliper, but it uses an adapter bracket, you’re going to have flex and deformation at the braking surface, without exception. These calipers mount directly to the factory points –completely eliminating this deformation. Again, this isn’t a one size fits all product with an adapter bracket for each application, it’s an application specific design. To eliminate brake pad tapering and ensure even pressure across the entire pad surface, Mugen produced these calipers with different size leading and trailing pistons. Even the dust boots are proprietary material, made to withstand prolonged excessive heat.

The brake pad material is designed to change the braking force in the rear to match the increased braking power of the front. Even the material, routing and sleeves on the brake lines are made to minimize heat damage to the brake fluid. Also, Mugen developed anti-squeal shims specifically for this setup – the stock shims are not re-used.

This system is certainly streetable, but will withstand the most demanding of track useage. Not simply a “brake upgrade”, or a “street version” of a real racing system, these brakes are made to be on the track where rotors routinely glow red for most of the race, and hold up without fail.

Without question, this is a premium product, but this brake system is not for everyone, it’s geared towards enthusiasts that drive hard on the street, and drive even harder on the track.