Yessir, one upgrade at a time until this thing is cooler than the 22 STI that we never got! Thanks for watching Walter.

😋definitely if we blow up the WRX trans! Much appreciated, thanks for tuning in Drew!

Thanks for the feedback Cole, much more to come!

Your are welcome. Hopefully you’re able to make your own kit!

You're definitely not far off from our mindset, I think you in particular will like Part 2!

Hmmm...don't recall Subaru ever using any lime/green, etc back in the 90's. My kid is named Colin - after McRae - and I followed WRC closely and am a model builder and have reward winning scale models. Never seen them. Unless it was a privateer running an ex-Prodrive car. Same with cherry blossom. Never seen calipers painted that color. Not by Subaru or by Brembo. I know, I know beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but while the ricer movement seems to have settled way down it just won't die. A quick hit...Subaru F'd up with the neon 6-pots, and the S209 made people think "hey, it's factory, I can put it on my WRX!" Put those aside. A quick example...I'm part of the BL/BP era Legacy/Outback community. As time has gone by, two trends set in. The Legacy people pursued full JDM front and rear end conversions becase it is a huge improvement. And the Outback folks (me) went for subtle lowering. Some people think it's stupid but there is big purpose - stems from Subaru ceasing GT wagon production - and so long as you don't have the SUV two-tone paint scheme, those fender flares make the Outbacks look like widebody Legacy's. I'm biased, but my black Outback with STI wheels, STI grill (from a BM/BR generation - shouldn't fit but I made it happen) subtle OEM chrome rocker strips and JDM rear tailgate and lights and it looks like a Japanese Audi RS4. My 2011 STI pushing 600/600 hp/tq. has subtle exterior and interior changes. Interior has Recaros and went for S206 look. Exterior had chipped paint and a couple small cracks in the bumper covers from the previous owner, so I replaced those and the rocker panels...looks new and engine has 24,000 miles. Both cars are for sale right now, as of tomorrow. Teenagers will walk away. But adults will be my "target". I'll be shocked if someone younger than 30 buys the Outback. Anyway - can we just make one final push to kill the ricer crap? I know, in the community people don't believe they're part of this. But they didn't think anything was wrong in the past, either. I'm totally for Brembos on my 2022 GT coming in August. It's how I found this. But if I get them? Silver or black, with a Brembo decal. It's not an STI, or a Cadillac, and Subaru's always had "Brembo" on their gold calipers for a long, long time. Just more subtle/cool...not necessarily "sleeper" either...just think of Subaru's JDM/Asian-Pacific/Australian looks.

You read our minds, we'll throw one on during the suspension episode!

Haha, a nice passive-aggressive way of telling Subaru what they SHOULD'VE done!

Will do✌🏾

Good choice!

You got it Wade, thanks for tuning in! You CAN, although we're not sure if it's a direct fit. The point of this conversion was to keep costs down as compared to sourcing used STI components. We'll be digging into that shortly, hopefully our current GS BPV will fit right on!

@@GrimmSpeed thanks for the reply. I asked because I ordered the new wrx and it should be here in July. I want to do some mods to it but I would really like to add the STI brembos to this new car. Excited to see the next video! Love what you guys are doing

Yeah I’m also interested in adding the STI brembos myself. Definitely subscribed to this channel!

@@wadeflores6978 try 21 STI brembos and not bolt would need spacer between the hub and the brake rotor.

@@GrimmSpeed any link for the brake kits?

So far we haven’t noticed many difference from the VA chassis regarding wind noise.

Thanks Michael! Hey, gotta dream it to achieve it.

Honestly our biggest gripe isn't the flares, it's the unpainted side skirts! The whole setup definitely looks better on our black 22 WRX.

@@GrimmSpeed yeah I think the color of the car makes a big difference. Mine is in magnetite grey so it all blends in nicely. I don't mind any of the unpainted clading.

Unlike cobb lmfaoo

Much appreciated, thanks for the support!

Thank you very much, can't wait to show everyone more of this build!

Thank you very much Bailey, we'll definitely be posting more of that content throughout the year!

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We will toss the idea around!

We’ll eventually want to machine a spacer with a hub centric lip big enough to center the wheel; that being said the lugnuts are self-centering so as long as they’re torqued properly, everything should center just fine!

Very cool to hear Ben, thanks for tuning in with us. Haha, I get what you're saying, but it's a bit more calculated than that. All these pieces are high quality and nothing nothing is half-assed on this one! The idea is that once the full kit is on, it'll never come off the car so a permanent modification like drilling the knuckle is just part of the "pay-to-play".

Apologies for that, it's aluminum welding (intercoolers, intake, etc), we ARE working on minimizing the noise for future videos!

Check the website!

@@GrimmSpeed bought and mounted! Thank you!

We did consider a more off-the-shelf kit, but really just wanted to take on a small project that others weren't doing. A work harder, not smarter type situation, haha!

Gold FTW, since the 2020 STI wheels are pretty damn cool from the factory, I would say powder them gold like they SHOULD have been from the factory!

It's likely they could be adapted to fit, but we don't really want to pull the set off of our 2020 STI at the moment. I can confidently say that they are not a direct bolt-on though.

I suppose that remains to be seen, however it doesn’t seem to be an issue on the VA WRX with plenty of these conversions having been done. We’ll explore and troubleshoot if necessary when we get there!

@@GrimmSpeed I was under the impression that on previous generations of WRX, the ATS fronts tended to shift the bias rearward, triggering the ABS before the fronts had exceeded the tire/pad limitations in panic-stop situations or hard use on track. Or was this something that was remedied with a restrictor/prop valve for the rear by the company that made the kits?

Swap is doing great. The OE braking system left you wanting more and the upgrade we did definitely helped. No direct bolt up options that i know of. But... who is to say someone wont do something soon.

Totally understand. It's our welding team welding up intercoolers. Can't get a way from it in our current shop layout. We are working on it though!

We haven't done the testing so i cant say for sure, but it should be pretty close. You may have to use a different rotor, and you may want to measure spacer thickness yourself for the right clearance.

Since the chassis is so rigid it may not be necessary, but we'll be doing some testing to verify eventually!

@@GrimmSpeed thx for replying!!!

Should be able to make it work. Might need a different bracket. ctsvbrakeswap.com is the company we used. They may have a bracket that will work.

👀 we’ll add it to the list.

The spacer we used was to give the correct spacing for the caliper to fit with the rotor. It sits between the hub and the brake rotor.

Our base model 2022 had the 17's and they definitely didn't fit. We had to switch to 18's

I do have a parts list for the parts we used to make this happen on our 2022. As of right now we are still deciding if we want to step into the braking/suspension market, so no hard release date on any brake parts from us yet. Parts List Used for this Kit: 172-2768 - Cadillac ATS Front Passenger Side Brembo Caliper 172-2777 - Cadillac ATS Front Driver Side Brembo Caliper PowerStop L3781 2015-17 STI Rear Passenger Side Caliper PowerStop L3780 2015-17 STI Driver Side Rear Caliper CTSVBrakeSwap.com Subaru 4-Piston ATS Caliper Conversion Brackets (4x) ARP 100-7716 Extended Wheel Studs Brembo P09004 Brake Pads (front) Brembo P56048N Brake Pads (rear) FactionFab FFA1.10041.1-G - Front 05-17 STI Rotors FactionFab FFA1.10046.1-G - Rear 15-21 WRX Rotors FactionFab FFA1.10091.1 - Front Stainless Brake Lines - 08+ WRX FactionFab FFA1.10093.1 - Rear Stainless Brake Lines - 08+ WRX

Our welders are always buzzing away in the shop. Very little down time.

@@GrimmSpeed I understand just givin ya shit, keep on keeping on love what you do!

We’ll likely throw on a set of 18x9.5 +38 to start with, then go a little more aggressive down the line!

Brembos were purchased via rockauto.com

Thanks for the info! I love the vids, very detailed and informative. I appreciate your content.

Not that we know of, since this was a custom setup it's be hard to measure the demand for something like that.

Here is a rough parts list! 172-2768 - Cadillac ATS Front Passenger Side Brembo Caliper 172-2777 - Cadillac ATS Front Driver Side Brembo Caliper PowerStop L3781 2015-17 STI Rear Passenger Side Caliper PowerStop L3780 2015-17 STI Driver Side Rear Caliper CTSVBrakeSwap.com Subaru 4-Piston ATS Caliper Conversion Brackets (4x) ARP 100-7716 Extended Wheel Studs Brembo P09004 Brake Pads (front) Brembo P56048N Brake Pads (rear) FactionFab FFA1.10041.1-G - Front 05-17 STI Rotors FactionFab FFA1.10046.1-G - Rear 15-21 WRX Rotors FactionFab FFA1.10091.1 - Front Stainless Brake Lines - 08+ WRX FactionFab FFA1.10093.1 - Rear Stainless Brake Lines - 08+ WRX

@@GrimmSpeed thank you! You guys are the best!

@@Borp56 No problem, thanks!

Yes, you could custom machine the bracket if you wanted to. We used the CTSV Swap Bracket so we adapted our setup to work with it.

No, spacing would be off. Subaru changed up the knuckle geometry on the VB.

For an STI swap, you would still need spacers for the rotors but it can be done. We just wanted to do something different, and show a route that might be more cost effective and easy to pull off to most people.

Thats a tig welder. Youre not much of a shop guy are you?

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Haha, apologies on that, we had to film during a big batch of intercooler production and aluminum welding can get pretty loud. We're working to minimize it for future videos!

You’re partly right, however if should be stated that we’re not trying to market this big brake kit, rather just showing owners of the new platforms some DIY options that they have for upgrading the brakes. We’re sure that those aforementioned brands will be posting videos of their own actively marketing production BBKs that they’ve created in house and we can’t wait to see those. Think of this video as interesting content, rather than product creation media.

With a little bit of DIY wiring, yes. it fits! We haven't installed it yet though.

We haven't hooked everything up to test yet, however, given that this caliper combination is so close to what came on the 15-17 STI with a very similarly sized master cylinder, we aren't expecting to have any issues

We sourced those straight from RockAuto

@@GrimmSpeed would they be as safe and same performance as oem brembos?

Thank you for the love Louis! Since you've got the XT there is some good potential to make more power through bolt-on parts, however the CVT will be your limitation. First thing's first, I would find a shop/tuner in your area and chat with them, they can come up with a parts list in order to get to the power goal you have in mind.

@@GrimmSpeed Ok thnx Imma send an email ASAP :)

Not as of yet. We have been seeing a lot of demand from people wanting us to come out with a BBK. Which is funny because this was supposed to be a one off kit that we put together specifically for our shop build.

@@GrimmSpeed I would be first in line for a kit. I hope you guys can do some R&D and get a kit made that's not too expensive. If you can have a kit made that's less than $2,000 for the front and rear, I bet you'd sell the crap out of them.

They are similar. We went this route to show a more cost effective option.

Good question. We did space the rear accordingly.

Hmm, we HAVE had a lot of people asking about that!

@@GrimmSpeed So are you planning to get one before next winter 🤔 I need to buy my winter wheels 😉

@@benlegare81 It's a bit hard to tell if it's something we'd do since there are SO many other projects down the pipeline. I wouldn't wait up if you're looking to pick up wheels in the next few months!

@@GrimmSpeed Use the 06/07 WRX 4 pot fixed calipers. They bolt up to most subarus with no issues and they are super cheap and really good.

Our welders are always buzzing away. We are working on getting a dedicated marketing space so we can improve the audio quality of our videos.

As it sits right now, we’re not planning on doing a production conversion kit or spacers for Brembos, this is just a one-off for the shop car!

We’re not sure if it’s a fully direct mount, but you could. We decided to go the ATS route just to explore what other options people will have.

You must have missed the memo.

Yeah no. Allegedly the next sti we see will be electric base on what I’ve seen

We used the STI version for our big brake setup, with lots of customizations to make it work. I am not sure how the slotted FF setup would pair with a 22 WRX. Id check with them to confirm fitment.

Its a tig welder lol!

Deadass it was so annoying LOL but great video

Apologies on that, we're working on minimizing welding noise in subsequent vids!!

Not what I was expecting, didn't know that's what TIG sounds like over a mic. Thanks for the update. Waiting patiently for my reservation date for the 22 wrx sport.

Welding. Constant welding.

@@GrimmSpeed ohhh okay fair enough 😅

For a big brake setup. Yes! Cost effective.

That's alright, we're here to make it all better 😋