STI Brembos

[darkcrave]

Besides wheel clearance, just swap over dust plate, rotors, and what? anyone have a link to a How to?

[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.

[darkcrave]

But the fronts no problem?

[Florin1]

yup, fronts bolt right up. Even if you get the disks from an 05+, just re drill to 5x100 like i did.

[darkcrave]

Amazing, I had a dream about white brembos. Now I have to do it

[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.

[jamal]

easiest way to do the rears is wrx brakes adapter brackets and dba rotors:

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

[darkcrave]

So will the ABS still be working with the Brembos up front?

[mike-tracy]

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.

[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

[darkcrave]

More thoughts on that, what should i do?

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

[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

[darkcrave]

Wooooo! That's just for the hardware!?

easiest way to do the rears is wrx brakes adapter brackets and dba rotors:

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

[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.

[darkcrave]

Well i have money sitting it my paypal awaiting your brembos!