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Doing rear brakes i fitted hardrace Pillowball trailing arms followed by fresh rear subframe,powdercoated rear sway bar,new whiteline adjustable drop links new superpro bushes with clamps,new stout mounts,Perrin lockdown kit,new oem subaru bolts kit for all from icp.
Messed with Abs sensor, needed to order and fit new one.
Bought new diagnostic tool to
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How have you found those fuji rear caliper kits? What are the pads like and which did you choose? Are there other options?
Went with road pads ,did not want to overkill bias rear vs front.
There are 3 options road ,road&track and track.
Paid 1049 quid ,well worth a money ,discs are high carbon like PFC track discs etc. My only concern were 6pots instead of 4pots on rear. Not always it will work good with to many pots 6f+6r but found no issues.
I like how they perform.
With oem brembo on rear and AP front when braking force push Your body to the front where rear just keeps car in balance.
With rear fuji kit You feel force pull Your body a little to a rear,down a seat to, feels like full car is pulled low to a ground not like with brembo rears where front is diving trying to throw You out of windscreen when braking.
It's something like 2 wheel drive on road/track vs 4x4, You feel 4 wheels grip,claws to tarmac instead of 2, i mean You feel things changed ,in my opinion in positive way .
Braking is brutal when doing emergency stop. Hopefully will try them on the Ring this year.
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Bought alk ,roll centre kit,front supepro adjustable drop links,steering rack bushes,powdercoated red sway bar with new bushes etc. and seen how front subframe looks like ,instead of powdercoat crap i bought new one-last in UK and Japan at a minute. Sprayed marks from storage.
Found steering rack leaks ,bought fresh one from other jdm sti.
Hopefully thats all for 3 years.
Fitted new front subframe,steering rack bushes,alk,roll centre kit ,superpro drop links ,powdercoated sway bars
and fresh jdm quick steering rack, left to fit is oil cooler and oil change.
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More issues hopefully last ,vf37 turbo gave up leaking oil. There was no time to wait for good vf36 housing to build a owens hybrid and I bought rcm500 twinentry turbo with rcm inlet pipe and their fitting kit.
Funk motorsport blanket fitted,new Aem dry air cone filter with box -need to cut snorkel yet,did 1000 miles ,time for proper map.
When collected a car Richard from flat4 said he was impressed with brakes,first drive he hit them and was surprised how good they are. He noticed rear bbk grab car hard to, You can feel it when braking car is sitting low to a ground on all corners not mainly front end diving like with oem 2 pots.
And it was just with 100 miles bed in process,now are even better.
Im impressed with rcm500 turbo so far and its not fully mapped yet.
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Went to Mattyb for flex fuel sensor fitment.
He sorted few small issues like coilovers hats turned to correct position,new throttle body to intercooler rubber pipe,ac belt squeak-it was fitted one row of pulley, tidy up engine bay.
Car ready for link g4x fitment and map.
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G4x ecu fitted and mapped by Bob Rawle -1.7 bar
Tesco 99 - 493/454
Meth - 529/490
Injectors maxed out but its on the edge for clutch/gearbox, engine/turbo and my driving skills.
Its bigger turbo and outspools gtx2971r gtx3071- seen few fresh graphs did not like a lag maybe due to FMIC
Thats max with TMIC unless You go rotated with custom top mount
Rcm600,fp black based owens GTB is next best setup i think on 2.35 closed deck block but that's another 6-7k or more.
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