I've got SRAM Force on my bike and sometimes wish I'd sprung for Red but either way, SRAM stuff rocks. I'll probably throw Rival on my CAAD9 I'm building up. 2700 seems like a fair price but honestly I don't know much about the Z-series of Felt bikes. As for brake pedals, you'll get a ton of different responses on that but I've been looking at the Look Keo 2 MAX Carbon pedals. PBK has them for relatively cheap.