Ohhhh Noooo - Glue-on Brembo brake caliper covers

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Ohhhh Noooo - Glue-on Brembo brake caliper covers Poseurs, take note: you can finally corral all that imaginary power your Hyundai Elantra SRT8 isn't making underhood. Eric Hsu at JDM Insider's Beyond the Dyno blog came across what'll doubtless be the latest trend to show up on M-badged Plymouth Breezes everywhere: bogus, glue-on brake caliper covers that give you the high-performance Brembo look while perfectly maintaining your fakemobile's incomprehensible lameness. When it comes to things that suck, innovation knows no bounds.What a joke.


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That is friggin hysterical! The NA blow off and fake intercooler have some competition!

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That's ingenuity at work.. and sexeh as hell!

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I would glue the phony Brembo six piston caliper covers over real Brembo four piston calipers just to be funny.

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Unbelievable!

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what will they come up with next gdamn

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Lifelike race queen replicas to position around your car when you hard park.

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That is BALLER. I would totally rock those if I didn't spend all my money on my GTR badges.

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wow... Thats genius! Im tempted to buy a set for my car, even though I already have Z brakes!!

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that might be better than interfoolers

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Do they make them so that they can glue to the sides of my drum brakes?

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If I still drove the Maxima I'd stick those on my drums.

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I'd stick these on Wilwoods and laugh my *** off.

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themadscientist wrote:Lifelike race queen replicas to position around your car when you hard park.

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repost....but still funny

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I wanna get a set of those, drill a hole in the middle and wire them up as sidemarkers.

4-piston sidemarkers FTW.

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these have actually been around for awhile, im certain we had a thread about them long ago.

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But Maybe It's A Good Thing.

Brake Heat + Cheap Plastic= Fire, Subsequently It = -1 Ricer.

It's Genius.

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ghey

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You guys do realize that this entire trend is in lieu of the blow-up girlfriend, right?

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Why did they pull the whole hub to apply plastic caliper covers?

I wonder how many would be ricers will skip this because they aren't sure they can do the work themselves? I wonder what a shop would charge the Saturn and Hyundai crowd to do the install?

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Assuming they actually last for more than 20 minutes under normal driving conditions, how the hell are you supposed to change your brake pads with them on there?

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thats not only gay, its dangerous. they put a gob of "heavy duty glue" on the caliper where its supposed to slide on its frame.

"here, put these on, they will make your $hitty brakes work even less"

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srpowered240sx wrote:"here, put these on, they will make your $hitty brakes work even less"
But they will look good doing it.

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r34 gtr wrote: how the hell are you supposed to change your brake pads with them on there?
"THIS EXHIBIT IS CLOSED!!"

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srpowered240sx wrote:thats not only gay, its dangerous. they put a gob of "heavy duty glue" on the caliper where its supposed to slide on its frame.

"here, put these on, they will make your $hitty brakes work even less"
Lol Who Stops?Drift That Bish!


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Wow...just wow. I'm speechless.

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and for my next trick ill mount a turkey call to my bov.........the next big thing

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im going to put in a third pedal in an automatic car and hit it everytime i want want to drift so i can learn to clutch kick

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Turkey call mounted to BOV. I am doing it. Right now. Off I go to d!ck's sporting goods.


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