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Old 11-18-2010, 10:09 AM   #24 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by fuct View Post
great post Chris from AP racing, but cant a manufacture find the savings (the -2% a year) in other facets of the process of producing the calipers? ie. modifying the indutrial engineering side to help make them more efficently?

i like my factory brakes, but i would LOVE a set of AP brakes.

keep up the good work Chris.
It's cheaper to use lower-cost materials than it is to invest the time and money into developing more efficient manufacturing processes.

To Spearfishes point, we are definitely benefiting from volume discounts. It's just very expensive to put racing-quality calipers on a (relatively) cheap production car like the Z.
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