If the brakes on your Lexus are feeling a bit weaker than you desire add a performance brake kit and enjoy shorter stopping distances, less brake fade, and more intense stopping power. The high performance look of the brake rotors and calipers will surely get your Lexus noticed.

Most stock brake systems lack the ability to absorb and transfer heat by conduction, convection and radiation into the air or surrounding structure during severe driving. In addition, many stock calipers and their mountings are structurally not stiff enough at higher line pressures and the resultant higher clamping loads.

Performance brake kits are ideal for larger  rim upgrades. A performance brake kit gives you wider rotors for greater braking leverage. Some performance brake kits even work with your stock calipers which makes installation easier.

Performance brake kits are often times the most overlooked, but most important, upgrades when it comes to customization. Aside from the aesthetic beauty of having large rotors landscape your new wheels, brakes play a key roll in stopping vehicle with large hp gains, bigger wheels or simply for those who live in cold-weather conditions.

The main components of most performance brake kits are:

• The high performance brake pads
• The caliper, which contains high performance pistons
• The performance rotor which is mounted to the hub

In a disc brake, the brake pads squeeze the rotor instead of the wheel, and the force is transmitted hydraulically instead of through a cable. Friction between the pads and the disc slows the disc down.

A moving car has a certain amount of kinetic energy, and the brakes have to remove this energy from the car in order to stop it. Each time you stop your car, your brakes convert the kinetic energy to heat generated by the friction between the pads and the disc. Most car disc brakes are vented. Vented disc brakes have a set of vanes, between the two sides of the disc, that pumps air through the disc to provide cooling.

The most common type of service required for brakes is changing the pads. With a performance brake kit the pads are larger and last longer. Most performance brake kits are easily installed with the common hand tools used to perform routine brake service.