hossamk

Dear All
Last 2 weeks was very nice as I was able to do my first tuning activities to my car, I have a Subaru Impreza 2005 1.6TS and this is the list of the tuning I just did till now.
1- 16” Alloy wheels instead of 14” steal
2- 205/50 W rated tires instead of 185/70 H rated
3- Change the rear brakes from Drums to Solid Discs
4- Install Anti Roll Bar in the rear my car come with a rear anti roll bar
5- Install a rear spoiler

Here is how I changed the rear brakes from drums to solid with photos First you buy these components
- PAD Kit
- Disk Brake Kit include (Disc, Calibers)
- Brakeshoe for the handbrakes
- Brake Line for the ABS version
- Brake wire for the Hand brakes
- Rear Brake plate and Bearings

Remove the drums

Remove the rear Hub

Install the new components

The final look


I also got my rear anti roll bar from WhiteLine and the feeling in the corners are overwhelming the car is really much more stable and much more secure around the corners. I feel that the antiroll bar is helping the AWD system to work much better I can easily now take curves with a lot less car roll and feel the AWD system kick in and adjust the car. I am really glad that I installed this part and I recommend it for everyone. Because the car is not supporting antiroll bar from the factory this is how i installed it

The final look

darkonion

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Just wondering for the brake conversion, it pretty much summarizes down to:

1. Remove wheel
2. Remove calipher
3. Unhook lines
4. Remove rotors
5. Remove hubs (How would you get the hubs off? It looks like there is a huge nut that is holding it in place).
6. Put on new hub.
7. Put on new rotors.
8. Hook up lines.
9. Put on caliphers.
10. And put on wheels?


I would like to do a rear brake conversion for my Impreza L, but yeah, not sure about how to do it.

junfansoto

I too would love to do that conversion, or rather find someone in my area (Jersey City, NJ) that could do it or assist. That looks like a nicely done conversion, though mine is an '02 OBS...

darkonion

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Yeah. I am tyring to get my hands on someone's rear WRX brakes. I think I'll post in the Bay Area regional forum for some help. I figure I can feed people (Pizza and Soda) in return for their help.

ch0g

http://wac.addr.com/auto/obs/disc/disc.html

darkonion

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Holy cow... I think I'll just take this to someone that knows what they are doing. Hehe.

mgitlin

For the rear sway bar, where did you purchase it? Did you get it as a kit, all ive found is the bar and bushings together, but I see the other two bronze looking brackets in the picture that are needed, are those stock? How about hardware??

darkonion

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Attempted the rear drum to disc conversion. I have a '97 Impreza L coupe. It might be a good idea to have an impact wrench for the bolt that holds the trailing arm. For my stock hub, there was a rubber bushing in there and that made it difficult to get the bolt off. Also, you can also reuse the parking brake line.

yenbot

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howdy fellow davisite. i've got a 02 obs and have always wanted to get rid of my rear drums. how much of a pain in the *** was it for you to do the conversion? and i'm also curious as to the total cost and part sourcing (forums? subaru yard out off of sunrise in sac? btw isn't there a davis meet at yee olde murder burger soon?

thanks-

darkonion

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Yes. There is a Davis Murder Burger meet this Wednesday. All the information is in the Sac meeting forum. As for how much pain in the *** work it is. It is a lot. Really, it isn't too bad. You just need to have all the tools.

32mm socket
impact wrench
breaker/cheater bar

It probably isn't something you want to do by yourself. I would recommend having at least 2 or 3 days if something goes wrong, because if it does... you can't roll your car anywhere.

The Subaru junkyard, they want $320 for everything in the rear. The hubs and brakes and yeah. I recommend contacting the member here named bugeye. I got all my parts from him. I think he still has a few things around that might be able to help you.

I'd say 8-10 hours if you don't run into any problems. Our problem was that we couldn't get off one of the bolts because of the rubber bushing that was holding it in, but we were finally able to do that once the impact wrench/air compressor came in.

darkonion

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Back again to add to this section. I'll just give a rough overview of how we did it.

1. With the car on the ground, we loosened all the lugs and the 32mm axle nut.
2. Jacked the car up, removed wheels.
3. Take apart the drum assembly in order to disconnect parking line.
4. Disconnect the 4 bolts that are holding the hub to the strut assembly and the trailing arm. Advice from Roo: Make sure you keep these bolts and know where they go.
5. Take off the hub and disconnect the parking line.

6. Next, you need to prepare the new hubs. What we did here was disassembled the new hubs in order to use the existing brake line. There are a ton of small parts, make sure you don't loose anything. My recommendation is take a pic of the assembly of the hub before you take it apart.

7. Take apart the hub, mount it to the strut and trailing arm, and reassemble the parking brake. This is where that pic will probably come in handy.

8. Torque everything down, put your rotor and calipers back on, do your brake bleeding, get your wheels back on and you are good to go.

skatanic88

What would I have to do to swap in an ABS setup while I'm there? I think I know the parts I need but I don't really want to attempt it based soley on the repair manuals. Any help here is appreciated.

darkonion

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I am not sure, but I would have to assume you have to get hold of the ABS electronics, not to mention putting your ABS sensors on the front.