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Nice looking wagon Mike. Looks so hot. Too bad you're WAY on the other side!

installed gold front brembos tonight....

Man those brembos & their rotors are the hotness! I compared my '06 WRX rotors against them and mine looked downright tiny!

mike-tracy wrote:Man those brembos & their rotors are the hotness! I compared my '06 WRX rotors against them and mine looked downright tiny!

brembos don't really stop any better than 06 wrx brakes. they're both 4pots. brembos just look cooler, are more expensive, use more expensive pads and rotors, and limit what size wheels you can run even further

wish wrote:

mike-tracy wrote:Man those brembos & their rotors are the hotness! I compared my '06 WRX rotors against them and mine looked downright tiny!

brembos don't really stop any better than 06 wrx brakes. they're both 4pots. brembos just look cooler, are more expensive, use more expensive pads and rotors, and limit what size wheels you can run even further

OK, keep telling Mike how useless and wasteful his new brakes are, in his own thread

wish wrote:brembos don't really stop any better than 06 wrx brakes. they're both 4pots. brembos just look cooler, are more expensive, use more expensive pads and rotors, and limit what size wheels you can run even further

That's not necessarily true. The brembros produce about 20% more brake torque than the 4-pots. If you have the extra tire grip to be able to use that extra brake force the Brembros will stop better/quicker.

wish wrote:

mike-tracy wrote:Man those brembos & their rotors are the hotness! I compared my '06 WRX rotors against them and mine looked downright tiny!

brembos don't really stop any better than 06 wrx brakes. they're both 4pots. brembos just look cooler, are more expensive, use more expensive pads and rotors, and limit what size wheels you can run even further

ive driven both, and the brembos are leaps and bounds ahead of the 4pots, like Josh pointed out...

Besides, the main reason im buying brembos is so i can run 04 sti rear hubs, and my sti R180 diff to go with my six speed, mr. smarty pants. Maybe you "wish" you had some?

/E-dick mode

mike-tracy wrote:Man those brembos & their rotors are the hotness! I compared my '06 WRX rotors against them and mine looked downright tiny!

Thanks bro! The rotors are only a little bit bigger then the 06 LGT brakes i pulled off, but wow do the brembos grab harder.... 120mph-30mph feels like your eyes are gonna pop out hahaha

mike-tracy wrote:

wish wrote:

mike-tracy wrote:Man those brembos & their rotors are the hotness! I compared my '06 WRX rotors against them and mine looked downright tiny!

brembos don't really stop any better than 06 wrx brakes. they're both 4pots. brembos just look cooler, are more expensive, use more expensive pads and rotors, and limit what size wheels you can run even further

OK, keep telling Mike how useless and wasteful his new brakes are, in his own thread

not saying its useless or wasteful for someone to upgrade from lgt brakes to brembos, but its useless and wasteful for people to "upgrade" from 06-07 wrx 4pots to brembos. i know people who've done it and they regretted it.

like i said, i want to use the R180 with my six speed, this is the way i chose to do it.

dude nice car. your patience and hard work have paid off big time. it was great to see such a transferrmation. builds like these keep me going.

Whoa, dude!

This Thread is so full of awesome.

how did you black your head light housings? looks pretty sweet!

Subiel94 wrote:how did you black your head light housings? looks pretty sweet!

i opened them up, and painted the parts i wanted black w high temp paint.











got new wheels, Advan Racing T6 17x8 +45 offset, 245-40-17 kumho SPT's.... much better look then the 18's IMO

Yeah, I love those wheels. And I also agree that 17s or 16s are perfect on these cars and 18s are too much.

This mat sound stupid but how did you open them up? Can you do this on the front turns too?

I used a heat gun to soften the adhesive that holds the lens on and pulled as I went, using a paint mixer to help pry it out once I got an end loose. Other people have used the oven set on 150 or something. The adhesive is reusable.

Oh ok. I definitely wanna do this to my legy. It looks good with that black in there.

i personally prefer the oven method

Your car looks so angry. And awesome.

That last pic should go in the rotating pics album.

I say we trade cars mike. haha. Meet somewhere in North Dakota??

wagon looks good glad to see more people blacking out the headlights like i did a long time ago
http://www.bbs.legacycentral.org/viewto ... es#p187461

yeah i did mine right when i got the car 5 years ago, my first blackout lights are on my accord and i did those like 7 years ago. The honda ones are glass tho, so its a little easyer i think....

Wow what a build! Beautiful wagon. That color works really well with the Advans. Those brembos look terrific behind those wheels! Don't pay attn to all the haters, its just jealousy. That's a meaty amount of rubber for a 1st gen!

Really like the fog lights too. Your car is all sorts of awesome!