n20ckb

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Hi everyone,

just about to upgrade my wrx (2001 bugeye) brakes to gold brembo's (is it a good upgrade??) but heard something about handbrake shoes need to be bigger is that correct and why

thanks

n20ckb

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Hi,


anyone help on this one???

tanyatriangles

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Sunday's a quiet day on the technical forums. Drop Ian an e-mail at ian@godspeedbrakes.co.uk, he'll know and advise.

Godspeed Brakes

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Hi
The rear brakes on an Sti has a larger diameter handbrake ( 190mm ) compared to the WRX ( 170mm ) , you cannot fit the STi handbrake shoes as the backplates are different , so I came up with the idea of the thicker handbrakes to make it work , the thicker handbrake shoes are £125 a set plus P&P
Hope this helps
Cheers Ian

tanyatriangles

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Got Ian's kit on mine, fitting gold, (now red) Brembos to a classic and I can testify to the fact that the kit works and is dead easy to fit

n20ckb

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Thanks to you both for your advice

Will be in contact with you soon Ian

dunx

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Certainly is, and if you get greedy later, Performance Friction discs and pads are even better with Brembos.

HTH

dunx

n20ckb

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Hi All,

got another one for you here....

cant see any problems fitting the fronts but on the rear the brake dust/guard plates ( not sure if thats what they are called but they sit directly behind the disc ) look as if they will catch the bigger diameter disks i want to fit how do i get round this???

thanks for any ideas on this.....

Nickb