350z Brake Question

Does anyone know the brake offsets for the 350z? I know you can use the 350z Brembo's on our hubs, but if an adaptor, caliper and disc set has been designed for the 350, can it be used on our cars?

 

excuse the rear number, it's 62.5 not 625.

credit goes to tekky for making this chart.

 

if you use 350z rotors you MUST use 350z calipers then it all works out.

AFAIK the Z32 adaptors available are dependant on the rotors you want to use.

You cant change between R32/33 Nur Vspec GTR calipers and 350z rotors. The off set is sightly different.

Most US adaptors for Z32 calipers are for 350z rotors as they dont have R32/33's over there.

 

If the adaptor caliper and disc has been designed for the Z33 the only thing I can think of that you will have to do to the Z32 is drill the hubs out to 14mm.

 

Ok sweet, theres a R34GTR version of the kit, same $$'s, so if the only mod is drilling out the hub, then I'm in like flinn...in a month or so. With the Dollar the way it is, I'd be silly not to get involved.

Brembo HPGT 355mm kit. 2piece floating rotors, 6-piston calipers and adaptors. $3,500USD

OR

Wilwood Superlite kit, 355mm 2 piece floating rotors, 6-piston calipers and adaptors. $2,000USD

The pad size is a fair bit larger on the brembo's, the calipers are more rigid, and physically larger.

I'm leaning toward to Brembo's

 

Thats alot of coin for brakes Andy, what about the Stoptechs like Ron but in the 355mm???

 

Can never have too much brakes
I know a bloke up here with 3 grand of wilwoods on a 240z. Its got a RB25, but still... the poor little 240 will shear in half along the rusty panel joins before those brakes give up :zlove:

 

Not sure about the superlites but a lot of wilwoods dont use dust seals, worth considering.

If your spending lots how about these...

 

They're $3300USD from coz, much of a muchness, I'd grab the brembo's over those for the $300.

Coz has some AP racing 6pots in the 363mm kit for about the $3200 mark which is in the mix now.

I think it's worth it, I have the 324mm rotors at stock calipers at the moment with A1RM pads, and they were a good move up from stock, and I get no fade at the track, but once I had the tyres warmed up, they out performed the brakes, so time to go big. Worth a good second or 2 I recon

And before people pipe up about brake bias, etc...I'm doing rears as well.

 

been through all this with my brakes
before you get caught up in name brands ...(yes brake bias)

Stoptech is the better choice for brake bias off the shelf !As the piston sizes are specifically set up for our cars .(tested)

Also I was going to go AP 6 Piston kit but they dont pull you up any sooner on the same size disc..its extra unsprung weight and only better for endurance racing which we dont do.


price ? I got lucky $4000au delivered 355/328 combo

 

Not so much relying on "big name brands" I consider stoptech up there with AP, Brembo, Wilwood, etc. When your talking piston sizing, thats tested against our stock Master Cylinder yeah? I'm considering twin MC's, although doing my research on it at the moment.

 

yep stock master cylinder ... I wanted a good bolt up solution without a brake bias adjuster

I like to keep things simple

 

Look for the lightest kit in 355mm

The big 380mm brembos I got off the slot car are massively heavy.

For a street car 355 is more than what is needed and I suspect the Stoptech solution is the best out there for street and ocasional track use.

The parts are massively cheaper than Brembo. Brembo rotors are EXPENSIVE to replace. The metalurgy on the AP's, brembos and ALCONS are much better but they are hideously expensive.

I stil have to buy the Brembos race spec 330mm rear rotors and the best price I can get from the race division is $500 each plus freight of $300 and the floating fixings use 20 bolts in total which are $25 each.

I got the front rotors lightly skimmed and the guy at the brake place destroyed one of his pressure plate grinding wheels, they are that hard.

 

Those are ok, they're better than our stock brakes but nothing special in comparison to the other kits which are much stronger in terms of caliper flex.

 

And they are one piece rotors which would get heavy at 14".

other kits have 2 piece alloy hats..

but a good cheap upgrade that looks like factory brakes

 

Since it's standard on 370Z/V37 coupes, I'm sure Endless or Project Mu makes a 2 piece rotor to suit those calipers. After all they still make 280mm 2 piece rotors for our cars/Skylines even though it's a rubbish size.

However once you factoring in the price of the rotors you're not saving any money over a Brembo/AP kit and all you have is softer calipers.

The only advantage to this is of course the fact you don't need to buy rotors or pads from Brembo/AP etc come time for a replacement and you can just buy any brand since it's a off the shelf factory size. For the street car that just wants better braking, I think the Akebono is hard to beat and far superior to any caliper offset kit that allows for bigger rotors. For serious track work though it's bottom of the list for me.

 

Yep, the wilwood 2 piece rotors are a fair bit cheaper than Brembo, and still highly recommended. They have some kick ass calipers in their ST6 range, but they don't do any adaptors for them outside of the smaller 6 piston calipers.

 

Martin Williams has the Willwoods and likes them. Drop him a PM about them. Rotors were scary cheap.