Outback Brembos - a long game

[Dave Hansford]

After a year and a half, I finally started fitting a set of Brembos I’ve rebuilt (yes, I know the caliper’s upside down. This was a test-fit after a long day…) It began, a lifetime ago, with the requisite search for 17” wheels that will clear Brembo four-pots. I eventually found a set of WRX BBSs and got them blasted and refurbished. Then, the long vigil looking for rear 190mm backing plates from a JDM STI Legacy, which I eventually scored on Japanese auction (I couldn’t face the thought of taking a grinder to the OEM backing plates). Then finding a set of Brembos, pulling them apart, more soda blasting and powder coating, sourcing new pistons, seals, bleeders, banjo bolts ans shims, By then, selling a kidney to buy STI street pads seemed like pure common sense. Bleeding the system tomorrow… these anchors had better be bloody good…

 

[m0r0gu3]

Method and braid make 16” wheels that clear the brembos, if you want more sidewall

 

[Dave Hansford]

Method and braid make 16” wheels that clear the brembos, if you want more sidewall

Thanks, that worth knowing - we mostly just do backroad touring, but I’ve toyed with the idea of having another wheel set with ATRs on it. Cheers…