So you've decided to put the z32 brakes on your 240 instead of buying a $1700 kit. You'll need a couple of things.
First, you need to decide which size you're going to run.
26mm Aluminum: Found ONLY on 1990 non-turbos. They used a 280mm x 26mm rotor.
30mm Aluminum: Found on 1990 Twin-turbos and ALL Z32s 1991-1992.5. They used a 280mm x 30mm rotor.
30mm Iron: Found on ALL 1992.5-1996 Z32s. They also used the 280mm x 30mm rotor.
32mm Aluminum: Found on R32 skylines allegedly not sure which ones though.
I picked 30mm aluminum because it would be easier for me to get all the lines pads and rotors from Heavy Throttle
The Calipers were Harder to Find, I scoured eBay for months but always got outbid. I ended up ordering a pair from Z1
I also picked up a set of russell speed bleeders from summit, and from now on any and every car i buy will have a set. Them ****s is gangsta as hell! But I digress.
After I got all the pieces strewn about inside my garage, it was time to do the swap. Before I take my only operating street-legal car apart, I go out to U-Wrench-It (UWI) for a practice run, to make sure the way I think I am going to do this destroys only a junk car not mine. BeforeRemove wheel and cut away dust shield, then beat with rubber mallet so it doesn’t scrape the back of the new rotor Remove Caliper and rotor using same rubber mallet, then bolt new caliper on
Put wheel back on only to discover that the wheels you bought specifically so you’d have enough room to fit bigger brakes behind, have a slight clearance problem.
Curse vehemently, then get on the phone and try to track down some wheel spacers. Custom Car Care had a couple in stock. Put wheels back on
Bleed and re-bleed brakes and wonder why the pedal is mushy and goes directly to the floor.Call for backup and find out that the bleeder should always be higher than the brake line, (duh) then swap the sides the calipers are on.Bleed and re bleed the brakes, top off the clutch fluid, and power steering fluid, and go for a shakedown run.Be lazy for a couple of days and then bleed and Re-bleed again at which point you realize how much better the brakes are.
Modified by golgo13b at 6:11 AM 6/27/2006
brakes
Re: (golgo13b)
What was the question?
Here is an excellent writeup on the Z32 brake swap:
http://importnut.net/300zxbrakeswap.htm
Here is an excellent writeup on the Z32 brake swap:
http://importnut.net/300zxbrakeswap.htm
Im wondering, which calipers are the best suited for a 50% street 50% track car.
i have found tons of lists that tell the specifications for nissan oe calipers, but i want to know these important things
like:
r32 calipers - will they or wont they fit easily on an s13? what modifications to the steps outlined in the countless z32 threads are necessary? are they rare only due to the difficulty in finding pads and replacement parts? which should i get? (brembo vspec rotors?)
z32 - iron or aluminium? why are the iron calipers sold on newer cars than than the aluminum ones? i would assume aluminum would be better due to weight, but i can also see how aluminum may be bad because it is so soft. i have heard from car reviews that supposedly the z32 breaks could not handle "repeated intense braking"(this was taken from the article in automobile magazine about the top 20 cars of the last decade featureing the 300zx, and the specific quote was a qualm that german engineers had with the car). is this due to some OE characteristic that can be fixed? is it some inherent flaw in the design of the caliper?
i have found tons of lists that tell the specifications for nissan oe calipers, but i want to know these important things
like:
r32 calipers - will they or wont they fit easily on an s13? what modifications to the steps outlined in the countless z32 threads are necessary? are they rare only due to the difficulty in finding pads and replacement parts? which should i get? (brembo vspec rotors?)
z32 - iron or aluminium? why are the iron calipers sold on newer cars than than the aluminum ones? i would assume aluminum would be better due to weight, but i can also see how aluminum may be bad because it is so soft. i have heard from car reviews that supposedly the z32 breaks could not handle "repeated intense braking"(this was taken from the article in automobile magazine about the top 20 cars of the last decade featureing the 300zx, and the specific quote was a qualm that german engineers had with the car). is this due to some OE characteristic that can be fixed? is it some inherent flaw in the design of the caliper?
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Re: (gordonliu)
- R32 T calipers use the same diameter rotor as a 1990 NA Z32 (280mm X 26mm)- R32 GTST calipers use the same diameter rotor as all the TT Z32's (280mm X 30mm)- R32 GTR calipers use a larger rotor than the Z32 (296mm x 32mm)gordonliu wrote:r32 calipers - will they or wont they fit easily on an s13? what modifications to the steps outlined in the countless z32 threads are necessary? are they rare only due to the difficulty in finding pads and replacement parts? which should i get? (brembo vspec rotors?)
They all bolt up provided you're using the correct rotor that paired up with the calipers. Pads are all interchangable between the different models.
But why are you even concerned about R32 calipers? Didn't you say that you already bought Z32 calipers? If it's a larger rotor you're looking to use with your Z32 calipers, then get this:http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors...84568
-Cosmo