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Old Mar 14, 2004 | 12:14 PM
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Unless you're really really stuck on using your stock wheels, even only in the winter, I wouldn't buy them. No better than FHI 4 pots and the Wilwood calipers flex.
Old Mar 15, 2004 | 07:14 PM
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FHI is Fuji Heavy Industries, the parent company of Subaru. I have been running those for some time now, including 2 track days.
Old Mar 19, 2004 | 10:03 AM
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I've got willwoods on mine and it's been a month since install.
I'm not sure what flex BAN is talking about but so far my brakes are great. I'm running it with stoptech rotors.
Reason for going with wilwood 4 pots is that I have to use stock wheels.
BTW, the old style 4 pot wilwoods do look flimsy. The ones I have are the latest version. They are sweet looking. If you've seen the perrin 4 pots, it's the same brakes since3 wilwood makes it for them.

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Old Mar 19, 2004 | 02:55 PM
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with the price u pay for the wilwoods i would just get stoptech...
if u pay a lil more...like 500 or 1000 more...
get endless...project mu....or AP...
i run AP's...they are better then brembos by far
Old Mar 20, 2004 | 04:15 AM
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Originally posted by BAN SUVS
Unless you're really really stuck on using your stock wheels, even only in the winter, I wouldn't buy them. No better than FHI 4 pots and the Wilwood calipers flex.
You must be thinking of those cheap Perrin/wilwood kits.
Im running the real deal Wilwood's 6-pots in the fronts and 4-pots in the rear. You will need at least 17" wheels to fit the front calipers. They come with E-pads. Very noisey and dusty pads.
If you are mostly for street,change the pads to the Q-type. Which are almost noiseless and dustless.
These wilwood are a powerful braking system. I had the FHI 4-pots before the wilwoods and there is no comparision. There was no difference from stock to FHI since they use stock rotors.
Wilwoods are 13" front rotors and 12" rear rotors.
Good luck,

Don

Last edited by Nitro Don; Mar 20, 2004 at 04:20 AM.
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