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Old 07-23-2020, 06:09 AM   #51
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I have the pilot sport 4 (nice tires) on my 07 impreza 2.5i with the 07 wrx TR wheels which are 17x7. The oem tire size for their 17x7 wheels is 215/45. Wouldn't using that same size tire on a .5" wider wheel stretch them and affect contact patch? I do believe my friend's tires were stock size for his Sti BBS wheels, which is a little more beefy than what 17x7 wheels come with. Unfortunately he doesn't have the car anymore and no one locally has a set of the wheels. I also run the red 4pot/2pot brakes which clear almost everything, on my 95.
As long as it was 215/45 x17 tyre I'd use that on a 7.5". If it was a 215/40, I'd wouldn't use that on 7.5".
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Old 09-10-2020, 01:10 AM   #52
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I've seen these brakes before. Some Nasioc members where buying these and relisting them here as "Brembos" but that's not always the case. This was an email from their customer service a year ago when I was interested. China casting was enough for me to not purchase these. I also notice in their pictures, the brembo marks are gone/removed. An alternative is doing the ATS brembo kit.

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"Good afternoon Adam

Most of the calipers that are non powder coated are reman calipers which are cores. Some might be Brembo some may not be depending on whats on the vehicle when customers return them or when we purchase cores. All our brake calipers are to OEM specifications our caliper department has a process on caliper cores from removing all the old bearings and seals and pin boots and slides to bleeder screws. Then to sand blasting and inspecting threads. And we have new castings from our supplier in China with new pistons and seals, pin and bolts and shims. And those are not going to have the Brembo stamp on the casting It would be hard for us to tell you which ones are OEM Brembo and which ones are not."




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Old 09-10-2020, 08:58 AM   #53
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Yeah, that's good info. If there's no way to tell if they are Brembo cores or not, then this is an easy pass.
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Old 09-25-2020, 01:07 AM   #54
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Hard pass on the Chinese components. Brembo isn't stamped, its embossed in the casting. You would have to grind it off not sandblast, so if they can't tell which are brembo, they don't have any.
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Old 10-12-2020, 05:51 PM   #55
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I bought a set of these last year for my track car after I had a caliper get damaged in a crash. They worked fine once installed, although one of the pistons on one of the calipers didn't like to retract when swapping pads. The caliper worked fine once I got the piston back in (usually done by disconnecting the brake line and removing any residual pressure), though. I think this particular caliper or piston may have some scoring or ovaling in the bore that is impactful when the pads are really worn. I noticed it last year when I was burning up some old pads that were mostly dead. I got annoyed and put that caliper back into my spares pile and re-used the original one, which was fine just old.

The other caliper never had an issue, and I've put probably 1500 miles on it (mostly track miles) without a complaint.

My 2c is that these are worth what they cost; when I needed calipers on short notice, most of the Brembos for sale were $700+, had stripped threads and needed to be rebuilt, so these worked out. Rebuild kits were something like $180 and I didn't want to deal with helicoiling threads. I never tried to return the one that got bound up, though.

I plan on swapping out the Brembo calipers for the AP Racing kit, since the Brembo caliper isn't really a track grade piece of hardware, OE or rebuilt. If I was driving on the street only, or had mild track use, I wouldn't be too concerned about the rebuilds.
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Old 11-23-2022, 06:10 PM   #56
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You'll want to note the rears are 08+ only, and will NOT fit the GD.
Is anyone able to track down the P/N for the GD rears?


I installed Centric reman 2-pots in the rear, and the color is a perfect match to the powerstops, but also lighter weight, and more rear bias than brembo rears.






Yes, they are remanufactured stock brembos. The fronts are the same 93-07 vs 08+, but the rears are different. You will need to buy the correct bolts from Subaru to bolt them to the knuckle as they are a different pitch than the standard caliper bolts, and you may need Kartboy V2 brackets (08+) for the rear (I don't know the details on 08+, I just know they're different).

**Don't be surprised if you run into availability issues with them. I had to wait for a little over a month after I placed my order to get mine. If demand picks up a bunch, I wouldn't be surprised if they become backordered/unavailable or the price goes way up**
Happen to know the P/N for the bolts for the calipers?
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Old 11-28-2022, 02:48 PM   #57
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Happen to know the P/N for the bolts for the calipers?
parts.subaru.com will have the part numbers.
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