scooby_greg

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Please can you help?!! I currently have an 04 WRX blobeye. I bought myself a nice set of 17" wheels 2 weeks ago that I have fitted to the car (see below). I have now unexectedly obtained some brembo discs, pads, and calipers from an 04 Sti .

The first question is from anyone's experience if the brembos will fit with these wheels?



They are 5x100 fitment and I know they will not fit with the discs as they are 5 x 114. Ideally I'd like to keep the new wheels and wondered if you could buy new front and rear discs with the 5 x 100 fitting that would fit the Brembos. I'm not sure if the wheels would also give the right clearance, but wondered if anyone had done the conversion with these wheels. Any ideas?!

Additionally does anyone know of a step-by-step guide anywhere? Fronts shouldn't be too bad, but the rears look more complicated with the handbrake.

I'm going to need to get a few extra bits so will have to give Godspeed a call at some point.

Thanks for your help

cookstar

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Might be cheaper to get the disks drilled to suit rather than buying new ones.

joey_turbo

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Them wheels wont go over brembo's without spacers.

daz1968

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for the backs you need special thicker handbrake shoes and the only issue I had when fitting fronts was the caliper bolts being different. Those are however WRX wheels and will not clear. You need some sti 7 or 8 wheels similar design but more clearance for the brakes. I would advise selling those on and getting some. The discs can be re drilled to 5x100pcd. I only fitted fronts to mine so don't know if bolts are different there as well. It will be worth it though as braking is a lot better. I would just fit the fronts first then start collecting the bits for the back. The sale of your own fronts will probably finance the brake shoes for the back. I would be interested to know how easy the rears are to fit as may do mine when the discs or pads need replacing.

scooby_greg

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Thanks for the advice - getting hold of some Sti 8 wheels this week. Will need to speak to Ian at Godspeed to get hold of some rear shoes and new hoses and then clear a weekend for getting the job done. Back onto eBay to sell the 2-week old wheels!

daz1968 - I'll let you know how the rears go!

Lindowkid

Have you put brand new tyres on the wheels ? I've got a set of STI alloys up for sale might consider a swap ?

Subaru Impreza STI 17" Original Immaculate & Toyo Tyres on eBay, also, Wheels with Tyres, Car Wheels, Tyres Trims, Cars, Parts Vehicles (end time 27-Mar-09 22:06:16 GMT)

Godspeed Brakes

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Hi
You need the handbrake shoes , but your standard hoses will fit the brembo's , these dont need changing
Cheers Ian

scooby_greg

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Thanks Lindowkid,
I just picked up some today. The tyres on them are pretty poor - especially compared to your Toyos! - but at least I can fit the Brembos now. Good luck with the auction.

On the ones I'll be selling 1 new tyre, 2 with 7mm and 1 with 4mm that will need replacing in a few 000 (depending on the driving!) All bridgestones. I'll be putting them on eBay soon with the 2nd original set that aren't as mint as these.

cossie-nutter

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I am having the same issue here... "HELP" Please

Just got my wheels refurbish by a proper place and powder coated at a small cost of £300 . Now I would like to uprate my brakes to Brembo's and all I would like to know is if I brought Hub centric spacers would the Brembo's fit with my wrx wheels ?

Any advice is welcome ? (Sorry to hijack the thread but we both after the same thing!) If it comes to it the wheels have to go up for sale or swap!)

https://www.scoobynet.com/wheels-tyr...ease-asap.html

scooby_greg

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Hi Cossie - I was advised that 7mm spacers and longer nuts would do the trick. I went for the STi wheels in the end so do not know if this works - hopefully someone out there has done it!
Good luck. Hoping to do mine today - but the weather's not looking too good

Casters450

Hi all - I had same clearance problems on mine, 2003 blobeye with front Brembo's and 18" Prodrive/OZs (same style and colour as P1 but not intended for STi). I ended up using longer studs and 6mm spacers. I would def recommend hub centric spacers because I went the cheapo way and regreted it due to vibration. I ended up bonding mine to the hub with thread lock to stop them movng when I put the wheels on!!!

tanyatriangles

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Half a day, including removal of backplate to old disc, repainting old mounts and bleeding.

I did a "How to" on it about 18 months back, dunno where it is now, it included photos .

cossie-nutter

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Thank you for all your help peeps! I now brought some Ap Brakes that seem to fit really nice! and the Brembo's are now for sale here...

Grab a bargain!

https://www.scoobynet.com/private-sa...ml#post8607730