Just say no to Willwood. Willwoods are not meant for street duty. Their calipers do not have dust seals which means they will need complete disassembly and cleaning from time to time. Not something you want to deal with on a daily driver. Racing teams use Willwoods because race cars are stripped down and rebuilt constantly.
Brembo does not have a bolt-on kit. BTW, Stoptech's caliper is pretty much a copy of the Brembo F40 caliper with some of Stoptech's own improvements. What those improvements are no one knows.
You do want bigger brakes in the front because during braking weight is transferred to the front (nose dive). Because of this weight transfer the front tires are compressed and larger than normal contact patches are created with the ground. So... greater the contact patch means greater surface of friction resulting in greater stopping power. This is why the harder you break (increased weight transfer), the quicker you stop... unless you lock up and start skidding... that's why ABS was invented. ABS allows you to brake fast, hard and without skidding. Other ways larger brakes stop the vehicle quicker: 1) larger surface area of contact between rotor and pad. 2) better transfer of kinetic engery into heat... greater surface area means the rotors cool faster allowing more energy transfer. This is also why race cars use carbon disks. Carbon doesn't retain heat... at least not as much as steel. It transfers heat to the atmosphere much quicker.
In case anyone is interested, Porsche Boxter calipers cost $273 for the standard black Boxster calipers. If you want the red ones from the Boxter S, it'll be $453.
If I had the money to spend I'd go with the Stoptech early 1st Gen Eclipse 13" kit... use the provided adapters to make ones that fit or shaved them down to get the right offset... Eclipse is 5 bolt. VX is 6. So you'd have to get different rotor hats for the sexy two piece rotors. If you contact them, you may even be able to convince them to do small run/group buy kit for the VX based on their 1st gen Eclipse kit. All they'd have to do is provide the right rotor hat... and leave the lines and adapter up to you. Or even someone can provide them with the stock brake/rotor offsets they may even have adapters machined.
Out of curiocity... do we share our brakes with the Trooper or the Rodeo? If we do, it'd make an even more convince case for them to provide a kit.
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