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STI Brembos

Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 1:01 am
by darkcrave
Besides wheel clearance, just swap over dust plate, rotors, and what? anyone have a link to a How to?

Re: STI Brembos

Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 2:13 am
by Florin1
Rears wont work. You either get the whole assy including knuckle and spindle, and axles, and r180, or you get custom kartboy brackets. Those are spendy as well. If you go the kartboy way, you will still need custom rotors if you want your e-brake to work. I had a plan for that though. I will go into more detail if you need.

Re: STI Brembos

Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 3:16 am
by darkcrave
But the fronts no problem?

Re: STI Brembos

Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 5:18 am
by Florin1
yup, fronts bolt right up. Even if you get the disks from an 05+, just re drill to 5x100 like i did.

Re: STI Brembos

Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 5:42 pm
by darkcrave
Amazing, I had a dream about white brembos. Now I have to do it

Re: STI Brembos

Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 12:08 am
by Florin1
Oh man white does sound cool. It will suck big time keeping them clean. Oh and keep in mind you will need to find wheels that clear. 17" minimum plus gotta remember the offset.

Re: STI Brembos

Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 7:31 am
by jamal
easiest way to do the rears is wrx brakes adapter brackets and dba rotors:

http://www.knsbrakes.com/carItemDetails ... m_id=35849

Re: STI Brembos

Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 11:04 pm
by darkcrave
So will the ABS still be working with the Brembos up front?

Re: STI Brembos

Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 11:53 pm
by mike-tracy
darkcrave wrote:So will the ABS still be working with the Brembos up front?
Yes, because you are only replacing the brakes, not the hub.

If you think you need the braking performance, and don't care about adding 50+lbs (less if you're doing only the fronts) to your car, then just get them, man. The fronts bolt on, you can find them on Nasioc all day, etc.

Re: STI Brembos

Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 2:43 am
by Legacy777
Just somethign to note......Just adding the brembros on the front will severely jack with your brake bias and how the car brakes......so I would encourage you to do something in the rear to help get the car back in balance

Re: STI Brembos

Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 7:31 pm
by darkcrave
More thoughts on that, what should i do?
Legacy777 wrote:Just somethign to note......Just adding the brembros on the front will severely jack with your brake bias and how the car brakes......so I would encourage you to do something in the rear to help get the car back in balance

Re: STI Brembos

Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 7:42 pm
by Legacy777
Upgrade the rear brakes to the H6 rear brakes. You'll still have roughly an 8% shift in brake torque towards the front compared to your original setup. That may not be that big a deal though.

Check out this thread and download my spreadsheet. You can input your before and after setups to see what changing one component does. If you have any questions after looking at the spreadsheet, let me know.

http://bbs.legacycentral.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=25054

Re: STI Brembos

Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 2:49 am
by darkcrave
Wooooo! That's just for the hardware!?
jamal wrote:easiest way to do the rears is wrx brakes adapter brackets and dba rotors:

http://www.knsbrakes.com/carItemDetails ... m_id=35849

Re: STI Brembos

Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 5:38 am
by Florin1
Dave, I've been debating selling my brembos, or better yet, trading for fhi brakes. (06-07 wrx). Reason being, I won't be able to go to a smaller wheel for drifting/auto x.

Re: STI Brembos

Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 12:07 am
by darkcrave
Well i have money sitting it my paypal awaiting your brembos!