So a friend of mine is convinced that TII's and Sports came with Brembos … did Mazda have it as an add on option? I don’t think they did come with them… but I just wanted to check, cuz he had a 86’ Sport I think? And it had Brembos on it, and ya he said it came like that straight from the factory. Just wanted to get a like 10 or so people saying ya or no.

 

Never. We did get single or 4 pots for the front though.

 

Its possible, if he means the brembos got sent straight from the brembo factory.

 

He was saying it came stock from mazda like that. Now you talking 4 pot Brembos for the front? Cuz maybe that’s what he saw and was thinking... or maybe he just got a more modified car then what he was thinking.

 

no i doubt they came with brembos from factory. their properbly old and look like they came with the car.

 

They had 4-pot brakes up front, not made by Brembo though.

 

The stock four pots were made by Sumitomo.

It's a relatively recent- and still pretty uncommon- occasion for a Japanese manufacturer to source parts from outside the country.

 

Ya thats what I was thinking... dont know what he was haha but come on over 1/2 the crap under the hood has the mitsubishi logo on it, it did not sound right that they would have had them on.

Thanks Guys
Zane

 

Mitsubishi is a giant industrial conglomeration and you'll find their parts on almost any Japanese vehicle.

[history lesson]
Soon after WW2, as the nascent Japanese auto industry began to grow, due to material and money shortages all big industry was government controlled.
Official committees decided who got funding, who got raw materials, who got business school graduates, etc.
Part of the deal was the companies were also told who to subcontract from, the whole idea being to eliminate the waste of competing companies and maximize the probability of success.

It would have been unthinkable for say, Nissan to use Italian brakes as that would have meant that one of the carefully nurtured Japanese companies (like Sumitomo) was losing the money.
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