Best stock replacement brakes?

[astron]

I'm looking to replace the brakes on my 96 240 base edition. The rotors are warped, pads are lame..you get the idea..Anyway, i dont race or anything, just want nice daily driver brakes. I've heard to get brembo blank rotors (no slots/holes/etc)(Brembo rear rotors) and axxis brake pads (Axxis rear pads) I'm going to do all 4 wheels, not just the rear...but those are the links i'm looking at right now...Will those do okay? Anything better? (money's not a huge option..hehe...gotta love that)The presumed contributing factor to the brakes..uh..death..is that I dont have shims inbetween the pads and the calipers...I need to find them....So..anyone know where I can find the shims for less than 80 dollars (from nissan dealer)?

Sidenote-I also need to put new shocks in...Looking for fairly mild replacements for the oem ones...Any recomendations? I'll probably do springs too, so recomendations there? What else will i need? (Heard camber plates...maybe something about pillow mounts..whatever that is...boy i wish that faq would come back online)

thanks...sorry about the long postast

[Cloudedone]

Brembo rotors are good quality stuff, crossdrilling helps the cooling of the rotor without doing too much extra damage/wear to the pad.

Not sure on those brake pad, never used them myself, i have used the pads that stillen sell, the Metal matrix pad, good stuff.

Shims... I always thought that the shims were there just for anti-sqeel purpases, maybe i'm wrong?

-Galen

[astron]

The old pads (Which i replaced about 10k ago, when i got the car) have worn down at an angle to the center of the rotor...i dont think they ever sit quite properly into the calipers...(they also wore the rotor down wierd) so i'm pretty sure they're fairly important...

[rico05]

I have Brembo blanks. Don't get slotted/drilled as after only a few thousand miles they WILL crack. They are only for bling factor on a street car. Even on competetions cars they have to change them out all the time. As for pads, I run Axxis Metal Master and they are low noise, low dust and give great stopping power. I am running Goodridge Stainless Steel lines and the pedal feel is AWESOME. Misc. items I have are new OEM booster and m/c and synthetic DOT4 fluid. Fade on the street (even with VERY spirited country driving) is minimal and I love them! I have only had them for about 3 weeks, and sometimes they still shock me at how good they are.

[rico05]

As for shims, I don't run them and neither does my buddy who has the same setup with 300ZX calipers.

[p00t]

http://www.courtesyparts.com is where I got my brake hardware kits, 54 dollars shipped for front and rear: sliding clips, shims, and grease. Its a bit much for a few thin pieces of metal, but works perfectly. my old brakes had no shims on them, and they squeeked a bit under braking, and they were nissan oem organic pads!

also i recommend buying some disc brake quiet spray at your local napa/pepboys/autozone. you just put the pads face down on a news paper and spray a few coats onto the back of the steel part of the pad. it does its job well. do not do this if you dont get shims though, because if it comes into contact with any sliding parts it will gum the part up (aka the piston).

[trpower7]

I've done cross-drilled and slotteds on more than two dozen street and track cars and never seen any crack. Ever. That's simply misinformation. They wear out pads quicker and wear quicker because they can't be resurfaced, that's it.

[rico05]

Well, then somehow the pics I have seen online have been doctored and the people I have talked to about it have lied to me. Do what you like man, it is your money. But on a street car, the benfits of drilled/slotted are really nil.

[rico05]

And the teams in EUroTuners SuperTuners Shootout also lied (mind you these are guys that build track cars, not jsut guys bolting rotors on street cars). But hey, I am a moron anyway.

[Grant@tirerack]

A good pad like the Hawk HPS and standard rotors are all most folks need for basic street use. It is always a good idea to replace all of the hardware on the calipers when doing a brake job. Those little metal springs and clips do not hold up well to the heat they are exposed to and will not work as well as they should if reused. You can see all of our brake items here:

http://www.tirerack.com/a.jsp?...x.jsp

[Dori Dori]

100% agreed.

On my last car, I went through 3 different pad/rotor combos and was still unhappy with the performance. I almost started looking into big brake kits, but then I tried Hawk HPS on stock rotors. They don't dust much, they bite really hard, and they don't fade easily (street/auto-x driving). I also used ss brake lines and motul 600... Try it!

[s13sr20chris]

i intend to try out the carbotech pads. their info is all correct on the website and that impressed me. i would think that slotted/drilled rotors would be unnesessary on your car as a good pad will stand up to way more heat than you would subject it to. however, with the added cooling capacity of slotted/drilled rotors you may stay below the working temperture of the pads. just think, if you are on the freeway for a while your brakes cool down a lot. go to make one hard stop like that on a high performance pad. gonna suck for you. the pad is the most important thing. rotor is not even a close second.