Don't confuse brake pedal feel with stopping power. I think you all are. The S2 stop very good to be standard brakes. You need to take off the modulator belts, change you fluid to a good one, get some good pads and you will out brake Cosworths and MR2's at the tracks. I speak of experience, do you? I still have the modualtors, but with no belts. The brakes are from a car that weighs 250kg more and have 15hp more, the XR4i.