Subject	Just finished my first brake job on the Z!
Posted by	300zx2g35 (MD) on February 07, 2009 at 11:08 PM
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Message	Since it was my first time doing this it took about 9hrs to do everything including bedding the brakes. I replaced the rotors, pads, lines, and fluid and added the master cylinder brace and did some cleaning while I was under there but nothing too fancy. Thanks to Kyle and Coz for their excellent service as usual. Got the fluid and brace from Kyle at IPP and the pads and rotors from Coz at Concept Z. Here is the setup I decided to go with: Stoptech Slotted Direct Replacement Rotors Project Mu B-Force Pads SPL Teflon Lines 300 Degree Master Cylinder Brace Motul RBF 600 I had the pad and rotor setup on my G35 with Brembos and it was a great setup so I figured I would try it out on the Z to see if it was just as good. Some pics during: Obligatory flying Z shot. This is my passenger rear before. The top of the rotor definitely looks horrible. You'll see why later in the post. The fluid has definitely seen better days too. Driver front finished up. Passenger front finished. SPL lines on. The rears finished up. Passenger side looks better now. Fluid that came out of the car. Don't think I've ever seen fluid this dark. Don't mind the debris. Just some junk I cleaned off the underside. Reason for replacing the brakes. Just in case you couldn't tell from the previous pic. This is what happened to the passenger rear. It was all the way through the pad and into the metal backing. All the other pads that came off the car were in decent shape. The fronts still had half the pad left while the rears only had about a quarter. Much nicer fluid now. Master cylinder brace on. I added a bit of preload on it instead of just having it right on the master cylinder. Hidden behind the stockers. Back on the ground. After cleaning everything up and bedding the brakes in I decided to see if the setup was just as good. I can definitely say there is a lot more pedal feel due to the lines and brace and the setup grabs immediately. There is very little fade after consecutive slow-downs from 60 - 20mph and 80 - 20mph. ____________________________________________________________________________ ~The question is not how far will you go...the question is do you possess the constitution and depth of faith to go as far as is needed.
Follow Ups	Just finished my first brake job on the Z! - 300zx2g35 (MD) 23:08:29 02/07/09 To bed them, I'd do some 100-0mph stops. And 9 hours?! - TriniTT 23:41:27 02/07/09 I got my clearly-not-the-best-taken-care-of Z winter 06 - BobbyT 23:57:15 02/07/09 Thanks! Yea maybe a break or 2 for dinner and - 300zx2g35 (MD) 23:57:59 02/07/09 eneven wear most likely frozen piston(s) - not scared 00:18:45 02/08/09 I thougt that too but it wasn't any harder than - 300zx2g35 (MD) 00:51:57 02/08/09 willing to bet it is the problem. (n/m) - not scared 01:17:35 02/08/09 Re: I thougt that too but it wasn't any harder than - Stadsport 03:35:05 02/08/09 Very nice, need to do this soon on mine... (n/m) - WAM_Z32 00:18:30 02/08/09 Someone say dark fluid? At least yours was old, this is - zgene4 09:37:17 02/08/09 Old is an understatement. - 300zx2g35 (MD) 10:00:15 02/08/09 should have painted your rotors (n/m) - BannonZ 09:42:21 02/08/09 You mean calipers, right? (n/m) - Stadsport 09:45:00 02/08/09 While painting rotors looks hot, it never lasts for more - zgene4 10:02:42 02/08/09 haha, I am quite the tard. CALIPERS!! (n/m) - BannonZ 10:57:40 02/08/09
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