Installing the Fig’s big brake kit is pretty straightforward. First, you remove the stock caliper, rotors, and brake line. The dust shield interferes with the new big rotor. Since it is part of the parking brake assembly, you cannot remove it. We simply trimmed it to clear the big rotors.
Be sure to cut the shield a little more around where the stock caliper bolted in to clear the new Fig’s adaptor brackets.
As you can see here the difference in the calper size and the brake pads are huge. The big 4-piston caliper puts more even pressure on the pads and the staggered piston diameters help prevent taper wear. With the huge increase in pad volume, we think our premature brake wear is going to be a thing of the past.
At 400mm vs the old 345mm, the difference in rotor size is shocking! The new brakes have much more swept area and thermal mass.
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It’s worth mentioning how improved towing performance will be now as, even with a weight distribution hitch, the rear will still take more of that weight than the front and cause the front to let go even sooner in a panic stop situation.