Originally Posted by krash79

The calipers that Brembo makes are all cast from the same mold different molds for each size so this should work; they just say Porsche on them until you paint over that. So the brand of car makes little difference. The only change you get is in the mounting points thus the question about the brackets.

Yes the rims will clear there’s plenty of room.

The reason I asked on this forum is that I was told by another 350z owner at the track that he saw a thread on this site where someone talked about this.

Originally Posted by burntZ

my 2.7 cents on the brake bias questions( damn inflation!)

the main issue is keeping fr piston area to rear p.a. ratio in balance for a certain f/r set of calipers

my bet is on the front to rear ratio being better on a set of sporty porsche calipers than on the s***ty stock nissan calipers

it would be different if it was a front set from car x and a rear set from car y and you were trying to 'cobble' together a non matching set [ like my semi studied but semi random pick of f/r ratio which i purposely aimed at more front area because under heavy track braking more weight at front of car likes more front bias]
i - of course - am not any sort of brake engineer and am only going by my butt dyno results and maybe falling for the classic 'expert in one area think you then must be an expert in other / all areas trap'

BUT i have actually done the math and then done the work and have made my own BBK ( to be fully tested sat at sebring ( so bring your video cameras for youtube footage of my brakes failing into turn 1 wall )

arm chair DIYers should put asterisks near their thoughts too

send me one front & one rear caliper and i'll do it all (4 brackets) (if possible!) for a copy of spore [just too show up the doomsayers!] (no springs needed!)


back to bias & feel - it changes with tire compound / brake pad compound

i just installed my track pads - here are the 'bite'/ temp graphs for the compounds - it changes ? 40% 40 ish to 60 ish?



wilwood BP10 street pads



wilwood B track only pads ( though i squeal all the way to sebring with them installed!)

this definetly changes the braking equation but does it fling the car off the road as unsafe???? NO

how about the stoptech guys, they (stoptech) say it's fine to run front only bbk and do the rears later (if ever) - do they all crash unsafely off the road - NO again - you absolutly can get it all wrong but it's not the delicate knife edge of near death that everyone makes it out to be
another example past race cars / muscle cars - they had damn drums as FRONT brakes, then / disc front / drum rear with people swapping discs to front and more swapping discs to rear - yet again, most of them survived!



2 questions - any idea what the porsche master cylinder size is, z is 22mm ( which is pretty big) as i recall - that might influence the feel of the brakes if it's very far off also i saw on the net a porsche set of brembo bbk that was radial mount verse the z side mount which might change the issue a bit ( there are radial mount z kits also but i haven't played with em)

so their ya go -
~400 for 4 slotted brembo 1 piece rotors (can go 2 peice later for more dinero)
~150 for bracket material and heavy duty grade 8 hardware (all 4)
~200 for fr& rear ss brake lines ( possible less if you can find adapters for your current ones)
~50 for spore for me
~shipping to from florida

so say <$900 to do

used z brembo calipers if found run ?1000 to 1250 ish + probable rebuild plus rotors and shipping other bbks run 2200 to 4k+ which is fine if your a 'baller' and got that money to fling around

yea, i know there are trust issues mailing stuff to strangers but you'll have my name and address and i've seen how the guys around here react to scammers... i won't risk a drive by for a single uneeded ( by me) porsche caliper... i dunno, if you really want to do a bbk then i'm up to the challange (it seems like metal modern art sculpture to me ( though the spousal unit thinks i'm a retard for spending so much time in the garage in summer in florida!)

Originally Posted by 350Catfish

Sell the Brembos to some other dude and use the money for brakes that are for YOUR car.