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im with dattodude, 120y brakes feel very unsafe drove my mates stock 2 speed auto ke30 a while ago with all new stock brakes on it(stock brakes that are bigger than 120y ones) and man did that feel unsafe campare that to brakes that are on say a new honda jazz or something, they are still small but the whole system is designed a heap better so the car actually stops when you want it to im also not a fan of stock struts after having one sitting around without a hub on it....have you seen the size of the stock stub axles
Having driven a coupe with stock PBR 120y brakes for a long time I have to also agree... Yes they are an improvement over the stock 1200, and yes they compete well with other stock brakes of the era, but even my wife's new Kia Rio has enormous brakes by comparison, and way more stopping power. To put it into perspective, my '88 e30 has similar braking performance to the Rio, and in it's day it was a $70k car?!
(obviously in raw performance & handling stakes, the e30 runs rings around the Rio but not in the brakes department)
Modern braking systems certainly have the goods, and I would think that with the simplicity of the S13 swap it's a bit of a no brainer. If you can find rims to fit the set up you already have, as others have said, I would think of it as an adequate braking system for a daily driver rather than a 'huge' system.
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