Any upgrading brakes on 90-96 q45?

[mattleegee]

Im a 240sx owner looking for an upgrade, are there alot of kits for you guys to buy? Any high rollers willing to let the old ones go for cheap?

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hi

[qship96]

The best upgrade for correctly operating brakes..........is high performance tires.

[mattleegee]

^ so you guys dont upgrade that often? ive been wondering why i dont see many sets for sale

as for the s13 goes, the brakes are garbage, small, one piston, garbage and when you drop a bigger motor in and get over 300whp its even more garbage!

[BadQ45t]

I don't think your going to see much around anymore. There are for sure some of the nicest 1st Gen Q's left in the world on this board but most of the upgrading is done and gone a few years ago. Z32 brakes seem to have been the most popular out there in the day, maybe those will fit yours.

[Johnny Rocket]

The best upgrade for correctly operating brakes..........is high performance tires.

I would agree with Qship....all the sports car guys want the Q brakes......elweeon oil says to stay with the stock brakes...

I just installed the best Centric rotors and pads.....top of the line rotor and did not cost that much compared to the infiniti part.

I researched this pretty long and they seem to have the best rotor for the money spent...they have a nice semi metalic pad for the front and a ceramic for the back........that along with some stainless goodridge brake lines and some F1 Goodyears and that will be a pretty good stopper.

I have not drove it yet.waiting for some tires before I Brake them in..

[Johnny Rocket]

I forgot to mention that there is a big difference in stopping power from tire to tire.....see tire rack.......Qship is right on........

[BadQ45t]

I would completely agree with that. But how much is a new OEM 1st Gen Braking setup for the S13 guy, you might call everythinginfiniti and price that out. Anybody dumping their brakes now are crapped out by now.

[Trumpkin]

Brembo made an upgrade kit for G50's, but not anymore. That was just the fronts. Not sure if anyone is running the brembo fronts or not on a Q.

[Infinitiguy19]

Brembo made an upgrade kit for G50's, but not anymore. That was just the fronts. Not sure if anyone is running the brembo fronts or not on a Q.

Like this: http://www.stillen.com/product...l=Q45

Not worth it in my opinion.

[Trumpkin]

Actually I have called stillen about this set. They told me they don't actually have this set, but they could dig up something for me.

[texasoil]

I recently took my Qship to a 'high speed Driver Education' day hosted by the Austin Porsche Club--the 2nd time for me. The new track was by Sam Marco Airport and the layout paid great premiums for maintaining momentum through curves and getting the line right on the money. For this run, I installed Porterfield 'racing' pads kevlar and carbon, front and rear, have Goodridge sstl lines, stock rotors. Also got a set of 16" wheels from 95 Q45 and mounted new set of Kuhmo 245x50 ultra high performance summer tires. Carefully followed Perterfields detailed installation and break-in instructions.

At the track, I could brake with all the Porsches-making up distance actually, corner with the best of them, and out acelerate all but the 'turbo's' . During each 15 min heat, I actually would pull into the 'hot pit' and let the field get at least half a lap ahead and then go again catching them in another 4 laps or less.

I was cooling system limited though, running one heat holding transmission to 2nd max except on longest straight, keeping engine between 5-7000 RPM. Was faster around the track, but heated up last 2 laps so had to back off. Ambient was 65F. Gonna install bigger transmission cooler and thicker radiator core.

Brakes were FANTASTIC--could bring tires to ABS point anytime, and never ran out of traction, even drifting throught the down-hill off camber, decreasing 'turn of death' that saw numerous Porsches in the grass that day.

I really do not see any need for larger rotors or calipers on a Q45. Several Porsches lost their brakes that day, I had solid pedal all the time, and I am a neophyte track driver.

The Porterfields are fantastic even in street service, not noisy or too dusty, easy on rotors too--their 'burnishing spray' coating works wonders.

Everyone kept asking 'what have you done to the car to make it so fast and corner so well.' Nobody believed it was a strictly stock 94 Q45a, with just a front strut tower brace. My instructor could not get over how flat the car cornered andhow it did not dive on hard braking. Active Suspension works.