FINALLY. After all this, we finally get to Auto Salon. Here’s half of hall 1 as we go down the escalator. If you look closely, you can see the massive Endless balloon way in the back corner.
This particular post on the Endless booth won’t dive into great detail on the crazy things we have to offer. Instead, to save on length, it’ll be a quick overview about the booth and what there was to see. Here, for starters, is the front of the booth. Behind the mass of people were the Endless demo vehicles and beyond that was the product.
Here’s the back of the booth. The cube you see in front of you served as a private lounge / meeting area where there was a full service bar and several meeting tables. Oh, btw, the coffee was served by Endless race queens. P-i-m-p.
Without being too disrespectful, I snapped this photo of a race queen painting. Many more, as well as real race queens, decorated the upstairs area of the lounge.
Okay, I realize I’m showing you a picture of a balloon.. But look how dope it is! Huge too. I’d say it’s a little bigger than one of those bouncy things your little nephews get for their birthdays. Soon you’ll see one flying over our booths here. Trust.
A truckload of Endless goods. Haha.
Quite a few Endless goods actually..
Thought these were interesting.. Whether you think I’m talking about the barbie’s or the underwear is up to you.
So… There’s always a crowd around the cars. A crowd of photographers. But they just sorta stand there and don’t take pictures. Reason being, they’re waiting for the race queens to come out. Yes, that’s right. They get there early to shoot the race queens.
So when they do come out, every so often throughout the day, it’s like sharks. Keep in mind that this was Friday before any of the general public was allowed in. On Saturday, the crowd was 3 times as big.
Race queens part one.
Race queens number 2. Kent and I concur that our favorite is 2nd from the left.
And now on to the hard goods. Here’s row 1 with some brake systems and photos of our race involvement. Notice photos of F1, rally and others.
Here’s row 2 with our pad line-up.
Row 3 with some various colored calipers and our chemical series. What many people don’t know is that we also produce a variety of engine oils in addition to our brake fluid.
Row 4 with our Zeal offerings.
I have photos of every brake kit on display, which is every brake kit we make, which is a grip of brake kits. So I omitted the micro-6, the 4-pot, the 6-pot mini and the 6-pot. Here’s our Racing-4 caliper and rotor. The Racing-4 caliper is the size of our 6-pot mini caliper.
Here’s a variant not many people see often, our Racing-Big-4. Typically used on Euro apps, here we see it in traditional dress. The Racing-Big-4 is the size of our 6-pot.
Of course, our Racing-6 caliper.
Here’s a caliper we never even sent out a press release for. Endless 8-piston.
And our all-mighty 12-piston. Accept nothing less than the best. Our 12-piston uses 4 brake pads and features not only titanium pistons but also titanium bolts.
Here’s just a few caliper color finishes we offer. In particular, notice the middle and the far right. The far right is a chrome with buff finish. Pretty blingy.
At the other end of the spectrum, here’s our alumite caliper with no color added. This is indeed, raw alumite. This is the best finish for performance racing with the highest resistance to fade, cracking, everything. Just looking at it you feel the “all business here” vibe.
Here are some Ewig calipers. Ewig means Endless in German and thus these are the Euro applications.
Here’s something no one’s ever seen before. Our Endless Monoblock-Racing-6. Forged, of course. This is only a prototype.
Close-up view of the titanium piston caps with cooling vents/holes in our monoblock-racing-6.
Here’s a Yamaha R1 that Endless sponsors with brake pads and brake lines. This was seen at last year’s Auto Salon as well.
This is quite interesting. Subaru, Enkei and Endless sponsored bicycle?
That’s right, we make bicycle brake pads. Damn skippy.
This is a display of how Endless developed and patented a technology to attach the brake pad material to the back plate. More on this later.
Here’s two coilover threads, one with our rust coating and the other without.
New addition to our brake lines. In addition to the stainless steel braided, teflon-encased lines with swivel heads, we’re also adding in the square portion you see in the middle. This little square attaches the brake line to the coilover for cleanliness of install.
Here’s a new little item Endless was working on. It’s the tiniest of the tiniest calipers weighing in at only 2.5kg. This particular caliper was developed for small cars such as the Prius.
In this closeup view we see that the brake pad material lays directly on top of the pistons. More on this later as well.
Another new offering from Endless. E-slits. Endless actually had inquiries from Ambulance manufacturers. Without the ability to put a brake kit on the car, they came up with the idea to use this particular type of slit. The E-slits will create a higher friction than normal resulting in more “braking force.” Of course this can be used for regular vehicles when high friction is needed.
E for Endless. The slits for this design are typically C’s but hey, gotta appeal to the eyes.
Last of the product shots, this brake kit features one extra aspect: a small parking-brake caliper.
Strictly meant for use as a “Parking brake” and not quite suitable for drifters just yet. A drift capable version is in the works.
And now on to the cars.
Here’s our ST2 class Super Taikyu Endless x Sequential EVO.
Here’s our ST2 Super Taikyu Endless Impreza.
Our ST1 Super Taikyu Endless Z33.
I’m not a fan of the rear neither, but check out the dual coolers underneath the tail.
Well, the post took two days and is by far our longest one to date. Excuse me while I go collapse. Next post is the rest of Auto Salon.