Braking overkill!
Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2017 10:06 am
There are some who will say these are way too big and they could be right... But not on my car. With 380hp and big wide sticky tires I'll get these heated up in no time. I have separate front and rear master cylinders so getting them balanced won't be too difficult. And I will admit it is partially for looks because the Wilwoods I had up front were doing a fine job and I hadn't really found their limit but this just had to happen. I now have big vented rotors that I can easily find replacements for. I did an experiment after I mounted up the front rotor. I spun it with my air hose and got it up to a some pretty good rpms and as it was spinning (with my air hose off) there was a bunch of air blowing from the vented center. These things will cool nicely. I am adding weight in all the wrong areas I know, rotating mass and unsprung but again this just had to happen.
The rears started with the Subarugears "Subabrake" conversion. I quickly learned the kit was of little use for my application since the 04 Subaru brembos mounted on a larger knuckle/hub. I did use the hub and bearing cap but I had to weld up my backing plate with a spacer to make it work. Very nice kit though for those installing smaller brakes. The use of the factory inner drum ebrake is a great selling point.
The front went pretty smooth for a custom application. Just had to fabricate my own hubs... All I had to do was cut the hat off of the disc rotors I already had and then turn them down on the lathe to carry the Subaru rotor. I then drilled for the pressed in studs and that was it. I don't have any pics of the caliper bracket but it was pretty straight forward for this set up since the bolting position for the caliper was right in line with the face of the spindle mounting surface the two pieces of 1/2" aluminum plate could be bolted or welded overlapping each other. I'll add those to the album once I'm done if anyone is interested.
https://www.flickr.com/gp/104665862@N04/27998B
The rears started with the Subarugears "Subabrake" conversion. I quickly learned the kit was of little use for my application since the 04 Subaru brembos mounted on a larger knuckle/hub. I did use the hub and bearing cap but I had to weld up my backing plate with a spacer to make it work. Very nice kit though for those installing smaller brakes. The use of the factory inner drum ebrake is a great selling point.
The front went pretty smooth for a custom application. Just had to fabricate my own hubs... All I had to do was cut the hat off of the disc rotors I already had and then turn them down on the lathe to carry the Subaru rotor. I then drilled for the pressed in studs and that was it. I don't have any pics of the caliper bracket but it was pretty straight forward for this set up since the bolting position for the caliper was right in line with the face of the spindle mounting surface the two pieces of 1/2" aluminum plate could be bolted or welded overlapping each other. I'll add those to the album once I'm done if anyone is interested.
https://www.flickr.com/gp/104665862@N04/27998B