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Old 17 November 2013 | 03:50 AM
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Someone said earlier that ksport have replaced their 8pots for 6pots. If this is true would you still advise the older 8pots over the 6pots that have replaced them?
Sorry I read your post again after writing this (you already mentioned the 6s replaced the 8s but are not as good)
Old 17 November 2013 | 11:07 AM
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I doubt there would be much in it for your needs bud. Theres a lot of things in a real world would do just as fine. 6 pots are later better design then 8 pots and if the price difference is small as 50 quid go for newer better ones.
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Fair enough but im on asking thoughts on the budget brands on this thread dude
What is more budget as a brake upgrade than a pair of brembo's? Can get a pair for £400 and they bolt straight on with a pair of discs. They will make your standard crap Subaru 4 pots look like they were never working.

No brainer!

If your standard steel 4 pots destroyed a pair of 'brembo' discs as your saying in such a short time either a piston is seized or more likely you didn't change the old pads when you fitted the new brembo discs.

My trouble with these threads is some very knowledgeable people have given you their time and some fantastic advice and yet the same question is asked by you time and time again after. Sorry, just how I see it.
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Kwick question chaps. - will brembos off a blobeye fit my bugeye?
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Kwick question chaps. - will brembos off a blobeye fit my bugeye?
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Yes they will mate,the only thing you would have to worry about is what rims you have on your car and wether they would fit over the Bremb calipers because they are very chunky.SJ.
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I have rota grid drifts do u think they will clear them
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I have rota grid drifts do u think they will clear them
What size width etc...SJ.
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18 x 9.5 width
38 et
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Originally Posted by lofty35
18 x 9.5 width
38 et
I'm not to sure with that et38,Brembos are quite chunky.SJ.
Old 17 November 2013 | 01:47 PM
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Originally Posted by lofty35
Kwick question chaps. - will brembos off a blobeye fit my bugeye?
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as i said via pm mate,you would be better off with a new set of k-sports

brembos are old now and by the time you have added new discs and pads you would be that much far away from a new set of k-sports and they come with uprated hoses aswell and not painted in pikey gold
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sj - cheers, might be ok with spacers ?
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as i said via pm mate,you would be better off with a new set of k-sports

brembos are old now and by the time you have added new discs and pads you would be that much far away from a new set of k-sports and they come with uprated hoses aswell and not painted in pikey gold
Gonna take me a few months to save up for new k sports shrek.
My standard 4 pots gonna be aright after my remap untill then ?
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Originally Posted by lofty35
Gonna take me a few months to save up for new k sports shrek.
My standard 4 pots gonna be aright after my remap untill then ?
yeah should be matey-depends how you drive
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Originally Posted by the shreksta
yeah should be matey-depends how you drive
ok mate, you and mattyb have both advised me on ksports rather than brembos. would be nice to get some brand new ksports will put me £400 towards a new set then
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sj - cheers, might be ok with spacers ?
Yes they will,better if you can find some hubcentric ones.SJ.
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Perhaps better to consider brake balance and improve braking proportionally

If in the OEM Brembo Sti set up use performance friction pads and Discs front and rear. Using braided hoses and best fluid.

But if doing serious track work get advice how to keep balance and buy for your needs.

I've use both AP and Alcon complete set ups and both have been absolutely superb.

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Originally Posted by tubbytommy
Jesus you just ask the same questions....

330mm will clear 17s

356mm require 18s

As a rule.......
However there are a few 17s that will clear 356mm. Not many but the odd wheel out will do it.
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Its the inside profile of the wheel spokes that causes a fitment problem with brembo's not the wheel diameter. Not sure they fit behind Rota grids.
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Lofty I have spoken with my mate who's friend has your wheels with brembos fitted,he uses a 10mm spacer and they fit he says that it is tight but fits no rubbing so I think if your looking to go that way you need 10mm+ To be safe.SJ.
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Originally Posted by stonejedi
Lofty I have spoken with my mate who's friend has your wheels with brembos fitted,he uses a 10mm spacer and they fit he says that it is tight but fits no rubbing so I think if your looking to go that way you need 10mm+ To be safe.SJ.
Thanks mate a couple of people have said 10mm aswell
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See you're the one that doesn't listen or read properly in you're case! My first thread was what brakes are too big and will create adverse affects? (Not antthing about what wheel sizes will fit what brakes) my second was who do people think the best mapper is,I would like 400bhp but doon was told my vf35 is not capable of that,to which I replied I would like it turned to as much as is possible from it. I wanted my engine built strong for reliability not to use all its potential.same with gearbox,I wanted it to be as strong as I could have it for reliability more than getting maximum out of it. I dont drive fast n furious everywhere, but when have my moments I want to be able to stop
Forgot to mention I've had 4 imprezas since 2004! So not new to them and I wouldnt exactly say my first one or the one I have now is cheap! I paid 10k for my first one,4k for second,3k for third and 6k + new engine and gearbox at another 3k+ for my present one
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You can only get 350 max out of your vf35 any of the brakes mentioned above are capable of that.
id be more worried about your wrx engine internals and wrx gearbox at 350bhp as they are on borrowed time
pointless now but if you bought an sti all the running gear would have coped with that power.
all you are doing is chucking money away trying to tune a wrx to that power.
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Originally Posted by jura11

OE 4pots not sure,if I would run again on any Impreza

We are running K-Sport 8 pots 356mm at front with PF Z-rated pads and at rear we are running K-Sport 6 pots 330mm with DS2500

PF pads what we are running(Z-Rated) not ruined our discs,not sure how it possible you are ruined discs on yours Brembo, what discs you are run

Do you run previously some cheap discs(drilled and grooved) or do you run proper PF discs?

Jura
I still have subaru 4pots on my wrx,like you say they are rubbish! Thats what im thinking of getting ksport 8pot on 355s. I had brembo gold drilled 294mm discs (£250) on my subaru 4pots with performance friction carbon metallic pads (£150). The discs must have been to soft for pads,the brake dust actually bedded in like angle grinder sparkes would to my wheels,ruining them,my friends in car behind would tell me hot sparkes are coming from my brakes and sometimes the odd flame lol (and that wasn't even braking to the max,just reasonable to heavy force). The disc wore to their limit within few months with heat marks and cracks around all drilled holes.
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Originally Posted by scoobyJim2
I still have subaru 4pots on my wrx,like you say they are rubbish! Thats what im thinking of getting ksport 8pot on 355s. I had brembo gold drilled 294mm discs (£250) on my subaru 4pots with performance friction carbon metallic pads (£150). The discs must have been to soft for pads,the brake dust actually bedded in like angle grinder sparkes would to my wheels,ruining them,my friends in car behind would tell me hot sparkes are coming from my brakes and sometimes the odd flame lol (and that wasn't even braking to the max,just reasonable to heavy force). The disc wore to their limit within few months with heat marks and cracks around all drilled holes.
Genuine question...

are you retarded?
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Drilled discs always crack around the holes. Fact. Doesn't matter what make or how much they cost all drilled discs will crack. I only use grooved discs now for that reason.
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Drilled discs always crack around the holes. Fact. Doesn't matter what make or how much they cost all drilled discs will crack. I only use grooved discs now for that reason.
Not true.
cheap ones crack as the holes are drilled into the disc creating weak points.
expensive ones fitted to porsche etc the holes are cast when the disc is made.
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Originally Posted by mantazini
I doubt there would be much in it for your needs bud. Theres a lot of things in a real world would do just as fine. 6 pots are later better design then 8 pots and if the price difference is small as 50 quid go for newer better ones.
See fawor & jura say 8pots o_0 confused??
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Originally Posted by tubbytommy
Not true.
cheap ones crack as the holes are drilled into the disc creating weak points.
expensive ones fitted to porsche etc the holes are cast when the disc is made.
That would be a cast disc then.

I stand by my statement all drilled discs crack.
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Originally Posted by BrownPantsRacing

What is more budget as a brake upgrade than a pair of brembo's? Can get a pair for £400 and they bolt straight on with a pair of discs. They will make your standard crap Subaru 4 pots look like they were never working.

No brainer!

If your standard steel 4 pots destroyed a pair of 'brembo' discs as your saying in such a short time either a piston is seized or more likely you didn't change the old pads when you fitted the new brembo discs.

My trouble with these threads is some very knowledgeable people have given you their time and some fantastic advice and yet the same question is asked by you time and time again after. Sorry, just how I see it.
Because brembo are second hand at £400 and im not entirely convinced they are worth the upgrade. Im not asking same question.this thread im asking what brand out of D2,ksport & pb would people prefer? My other thread I asked what size is too big. Ps. Pads & discs were both new and fitted together and if one caliper is siezed then they must both be because it was same with both sides.
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Originally Posted by lofty35
Kwick question chaps. - will brembos off a blobeye fit my bugeye?
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Yes,as long as blob is before 05 otherwise the disc stud pattern might be different. Pre 2005 was 5x110 & post 2005 was 5x114



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