why are scooby brakes so expensive!?!
 

Hi all, im lookin to upgrade the brakes on my 1994 classic sti. I cant seem to find any1 who sells uprated calipers that arent the big brake kits with 6 or 8 pot calipers. Dont wanna spend anythin like that at the minute as car is daily driver that im in the process of gettin to 350bhp so i can do the odd track day. i was gonna just get some new but standard subaru 4 pots for the front and 2 pots for the back with either endless pads or possibly mintex (heard good things about both). I am gonna get some godspeed disks to go with them too.

Anyway my question is this-how much should i be lookin to pay 4 calipers? theres some on fleabay at the minute for £700 for front and back, is this too much (it seems it!!). are there any other options for me without spendin 2k on a big brake conversion??

Thanks, all advice greatly appreciated!

www.godspeedbrakes.co.uk :thumb:

Tony:D

K Sport brakes from Apex performance. There is a current group buy on these.
Good reputation on here and some of the time attack cars run them.

Hi
You should be able to get working 4 pot front calipers from about £150 a pair , and rear 2 pots from around £125 a pair , £700 is way too much , check out the for sale section on here as plenty come up for sale

As for discs , pads and rear fitting kit , I'm your man for these :D

Cheers Ian

how much r they and what spec? the only k sports kits ive seen are 6 or 8 pots and i dont want anythin as hardcore as that.

Also, tony been on godspeed as thats where im gettin the disks and brake lines, cant see any calipers 4 sale 4 my model impreza only reconditioning service for standard calipers and my 1994 only has 2 pots on the front and singles on the back :(

I run the 8 Pots and used to have the subaru 4 pots. They're not just for hardcore use.

Hi
We dont have any calipers to sell outright , just keep checking on here or ebay as they do come up quite often for sensible money
Cheers Ian

ok mate thanks i will. im gonna get the disks and brake lines from you next week so ill jus have to hang around and wait for the calipers. Been lookin for about 6 weeks now though and seen nothin but second hand ones. I can see whats gonna happen- ill get sick of waitin and just get the ones for 700 quid and literally days later there'll be loads available brand new for 500 quid!!

there are 4 pot subaru calipers for sale on here now in the private for sale section.you aint looking hard enough! lol

Here you go , these have my grooved discs and kevlar pad along with some 4 pots

https://www.scoobynet.com/private-fo...vlar-pads.html

Only £200 for the lot

thanks mate, much appreciated! not sure if i wanna risk gettin some second hand ones. Theres loads available on fleabay secondhand but ive no way of knowing the condition of them or how long they'll last so kind of had my heart set on some brand spankers. Thanks for lookin tho i guess im jus gonna have to bite the bullet and fork out £700.

Brand new 4pot calipers new from subaru are area £900 as far as i know. Your not gonna find brand new subaru 4pot unit come up for sale unused for couple hundred.

Just buy some and send them off to Ian for refurbishment ;)

Tony:D

Its no point to spend £700 for Subaru 4pot,for £700 you have K-Sport 6 pot-8pot....
Subaru Brembo cost almost like K-Sport from some breakers,which is good just for laugh...




Jura

ive got a set of 4pots for sale mate 150 if you want them. pm me

Got a set of 2 pots if you want them.. Probably could do with a refurb, came off a 2004 wrx I think. £125 delivered. PM me if interested.

Not necessary, you could get the e-bay ones and have them refurbed BETTER THAN new by Ian for less than the new price.

On my car, the fronts were new Brembos from Ian, which he doesn't seem to do any more and the rears were STi Brembos from GradeA breakers, I just cleaned and repainted them and they work fine. They are still on the discs they came with, I fitted new pads.
Go for it.

thanks for the advice guys, i'll look into how much i can get a second hand set refurbed for. not gettin 6 or 8 pots as wont get them under my wheels and ive only jus bought them but might consider brembo's are they a straight swap like the 4 pots?

brembos bigger then k sports though regards wheel clearence????

The front Brembo's are a straight swap (bigger discs) But you need to make sure they will fit under your wheels.
Rear Brembo's needs a fitting kit, Ian Godney is your man for that.

As a guide, rear Brembos WILL fit under WRX 17" wheels, the front ones DON'T.

My mate put his scooby into godspeed and had a full set up, 4 pots on the front etc with Kevlar pads, bout 500 ish iirc,

Skeg, I have 2 perfectly working sets of "S U B A R U" 4-pots, plus 2 sets of 294mm discs (one set of discs unused) and 2 sets of performance pads for sale.............

Here are a set we did this week in Honda gold , we charge £350 to recondition front and rear Subaru calipers

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...s/a4ef7f85.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...s/4075215c.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...s/51ff66c3.jpg

Cheers Ian