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Some pictures of the brake install. Overall straight forward though the old school safety wire process for each of the 12 bolts per hat and rotor combo takes a while, plan the better part of a day for your install if doing this at home. Kit includes 5mm spacers to fit the factory 17x7 but we didn't use them since we don't need them with these PFO1 17x8 wheels.

Step One is assemble the rotors, notice the locktite on the bolts
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Rocky starts the safety wire process, put a rag under the hat because we found that even on this plastic table we did accidentally scuff the finish a little on the aluminum hat.
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Hubcentric ring provided for the hat/rotor combo.
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Bracket install. Note that brackets are dedicated left and right, and the calipers are dedicated right and left, and the rotors are also a matched set....so read directions carefully, note the arrows showing direction on calipers, rotors, etc.
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Installed....and Brakes Bedded (notice rotor surface no-longer black)
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Thanks for the update. Do these brakes fit the 17x9 RPF1 with or without the spacer?

Thanks.
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I find those wheels quite a bit more attractive than the RPF1's you have on your wife's car. Admittedly, you're running a bit more aggressive fitment here. But it looks amazing!
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Standard spring rate kit Ohlins, Brian? I'll be looking to see what bars you'll end up liking with whatever spring rates.
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Yes, we put the standard Ohlins supplied 7kg front, 4kg rear.
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skeeler wrote:Thanks for the update. Do these brakes fit the 17x9 RPF1 with or without the spacer?

Thanks.
This Narrow 6 piston is about as narrow as multi-piston calipers get but the Enkei 17x9 RPF1 45mm wheel still needs 3mm spacer to fit with this kit.

I also checked our other problem child, the 45mm RPF1 18x9.5 and it clears by about 3mm....making it our only brake kit that will fit without spacers with that wheel.
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