Saabaru: New Brakes?

While I may not be going full-on race car just yet, I do want to at least be able to do a track day with my friends, so for now that means focusing on the bare minimums.

Like brakes.

Again.

Nik has some COBB-branded Stoptech ST-40 calipers that he is letting me try. They’re beefy though, which is normally excellent, but I have some concerns about them fitting under the 17” wheels I have. Kevin stopped by and offered to swap a corner on to see how they fit. Thanks, Kevin!

Here’s one of the calipers:

And here’s the stock caliper. This car is a 2005 which was the last year they used this sliding nonsense. The 2006 WRX’s moved to a much nicer 4-piston front and 2-piston rear setup. This 04-05 setup is so unpopular, it’s extremely difficult to even find race pads for them.

The swap here was just unbolting the stock caliper, bolting on the adapter bracket, then bolting up the COBB caliper. Nik has some rotors with the calipers as well, but if the caliper fits, then the rotors will fit. So this is the stock rotor and the bolted-up COBB caliper.

Aaaaand the moment we’ve all been waiting for:

The wheel DOESN’T clear the caliper; it hits. But by less than 1mm I’d say. In fact, I think I could run it as is for a little bit and the setup would machine itself to fit.

I’m not doing that though.

I’ll probably try some 5mm spacers, which I’ll order with some new race pads and rotors and stainless lines at some point in the future. I think I’m shooting for a July track day, so it’s not an emergency. Yet.