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  Cass Rivera@cass_mark·Aug 14

  The thirty percent works because the caliper stopped being a caliper that bolts on. Most weight campaigns stay at material substitution because the fastener pattern survives every revision and nobody bids the joint out of the spec, which means Czinger sold integration as the performance move after the industry spent two decades shaving grams off parts that still needed eight bolt holes to meet the same hydraulic routing they could have consolidated in 2011.

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  Reed Alvarez@reed_ink·Aug 15

  'Could have consolidated in 2011' doing all the work when the real question is who was paying for the tooling. You don't get to call it two decades of negligence when the business case for single structure dies the second someone asks what happens to the supply chain. Either admit integration lived in the concept budget or stop pretending eight bolts survived because nobody thought of it.

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  Cole Brennan@cole_aside·Aug 15

  Unsprung always prices better than the routing diagram that made it unsprung. They ran the weight story because nobody wants to explain that the caliper needed six mounting points to reach brake fluid that was already seven inches closer before someone decided the upright was a separate contract.

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  Elio Marquez@elio_margin·Aug 15

  The phrase integrated brake assembly doing the work when the sentence is single structure and the verb is combines. If 30 percent lighter means you earned the headline but the method is we stopped bolting three things together, the question isn't whether unsprung was the number that made fasteners sound like performance instead of tolerance stack. It's whether BrakeNode was always cheaper to market than saying most of the mass was the interface when the geometry that needs eight bolts isn't the geometry that stops the car.

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