Brake Upgrade Help

[Legacy98]

Looking to upgrade my brakes. can any body tell me the best deals on drilled/slotted brakes.?
i have a 1998 Subaru Legacy Brighton Wagon 2.2L SOHC


Thanks,

[r3v_v3ng3]

Get blank rotors and spend the money on performance pads. Slotted would be better, no drilled or on both. You need the surface area to brake better

[Navi271]

^ yeah agreed. You don't want to cheap out on brakes anyways, but I guess there would probably be some deals on ebay.
Just do the 04 LGT brake upgrade. I'm installing mine this saturday.

[Wiscon_Mark]

slotted/drilled rotors are for cooling brakes down under repeated braking. Unless you're putting a monster brake setup on and going to the track, they provide no benefit while giving you less braking surface for the pads. Go with solid rotors and some good performance pads.

Rock Auto has good deals on decent names like Raybestos & Centric for rotors. A lot of people like EBC and Hawk for pads.

[anothernord]

Upgrade the tires first: that's the limiting factor for most cars. If you're looking for less fade, then after that you can go crazy with bigger brakes, drilled/slotted stuff etc.

I have LGT rear brakes (larger than stock vented) and WRX front brakes (larger that stock), and there is significantly less brake fade during higher speed downhill driving. I remember distinctly nearly losing bladder control with the stock brakes on a canyon run coming back downhill because they were fading so badly. It's worlds better with the new setup.

[Huffer]

Tires first. Then brake pads. Then rotors & caliper upsizing.

[98legwag]

Tires first. Then brake pads. Then rotors & caliper upsizing.

I kind of did it this way. But skipped the middle part. Tires will make a big difference.

[Regardie]

You are going to need a little more help than that. Cars101 says the 98 Brighton Wagon has "Brakes - power 10.1" front disk. Rear drum" no abs, no rear disk, single pot front caliper, you really are looking to do a drum to disk swap to the bigger rotors in the next gen as well as a front caliper, bracket and rotor to the 02 WRX size, which may have arrived on the GT around 03-04.

[Huffer]

^^ good point.
He should fine a wrecked 98-99 Outback and snag the entire rear end - hubs, brakes, e-brake cable.
And the front brake calipers and rotors from the same car.

Quite a bit of work, but it should all bolt up.

[Wiscon_Mark]

Keep in mind that a Brighton has 15" wheels, so if you wanted to go with WRX/newer Legacy front brakes (or those 05-09 LGT rears) you'd need 16" wheels.

The "H6" rear upgrade will still work with 15" wheels though.