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ryan4601 · 2010-04-24, 02:46 PM

At least on my car the dust shields were attached to the backing plate using spot welds (6 or 7 each if i remember correctly). You can use a drill and large bit to drill those out and the dust shields should come off. I am not sure about the 06 though, but I assume that they have to be pretty similar and looking at them directly will confirm it one way or another. If it is one piece, I'm pretty sure you could just bend the dust shiels back to allow for the rotor to fit.

To be honest on the 06 this swap should be much easier than on my car because your rear rotors are already vented and larger than my 266mm non vented crappy rotor. Because of this the dust shield may just need to be bent back a little to accommodate the larger rotor. On my car I probably could have just bent them back, but removal was pretty easy so I went that route. Plus your backing plate allows for the brembo rear caliper to be mounted without an adapter.

To answer your question, yes once you get the conversion rotor it will be a straight swap. The dust shield issue is not really a big deal, bending, removal either way will work just fine I think.
Ryan

PS: Scott, replacing the entire backing plate/dust shield with the sti (04) one is an option, but this conversion rotor allows for the parking brake to work without doing all of that. From what I understand DBA came out with this rotor relatively recently which has made swapping to bembos on the wrx very similar in cost to swapping to the 06/07 2 pot rear calipers. When I crunched the numbers before I bought everything it came out to about $100 more for the brembo swap. Really the only difference is the larger rotor diameter (316mm vs 290mm) if you complete the brembo swap.

2010-04-24, 02:46 PM	#14
ryan4601 EJ22 Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 244 Car: 2004 wrx	At least on my car the dust shields were attached to the backing plate using spot welds (6 or 7 each if i remember correctly). You can use a drill and large bit to drill those out and the dust shields should come off. I am not sure about the 06 though, but I assume that they have to be pretty similar and looking at them directly will confirm it one way or another. If it is one piece, I'm pretty sure you could just bend the dust shiels back to allow for the rotor to fit. To be honest on the 06 this swap should be much easier than on my car because your rear rotors are already vented and larger than my 266mm non vented crappy rotor. Because of this the dust shield may just need to be bent back a little to accommodate the larger rotor. On my car I probably could have just bent them back, but removal was pretty easy so I went that route. Plus your backing plate allows for the brembo rear caliper to be mounted without an adapter. To answer your question, yes once you get the conversion rotor it will be a straight swap. The dust shield issue is not really a big deal, bending, removal either way will work just fine I think. Ryan PS: Scott, replacing the entire backing plate/dust shield with the sti (04) one is an option, but this conversion rotor allows for the parking brake to work without doing all of that. From what I understand DBA came out with this rotor relatively recently which has made swapping to bembos on the wrx very similar in cost to swapping to the 06/07 2 pot rear calipers. When I crunched the numbers before I bought everything it came out to about $100 more for the brembo swap. Really the only difference is the larger rotor diameter (316mm vs 290mm) if you complete the brembo swap. Last edited by ryan4601; 2010-04-24 at 03:08 PM.