So a few weeks back I purchased a set of OEM brembos from an 07 Z with ~10k miles. I figured since I was going to tear the whole thing a part, I might as well spring for new brake pads, stainless steel brake lines, and fluid as well.


Pads used: Carbotech AX6 front and rear
Lines: Technafit for OEM Brembo





So after getting the car in the air on jack stands i prepped the new calipers. I collapsed the pistons pushing the old fluid out, and changed out the old pads with the new Carbotech pads. I tried to take as much of the old brake dust off as I could, but without a part washer it was time consuming.



On the rear brakes, the dust sheild has a lip around which forms a sort of "dish" for the rotor to sit in. With the new larger Brembo rear rotors this had to be cut off. An air die grinder with a cut off wheel made short work of it. A pair of good tin snips would have worked, but I do not not if the final result would have been as neat looking. Once I cut them off, I took a angle grinder and smoothed out the jagged edges as best I could using a sand paper flapper wheel.

To protect the raw metal I applied some cold galvanize, and then some dark silver metal flake high temp paint I had laying around.






Now it was time to put the new calipers and brake lines on. I had everything set to go, pulled off the lines, put the new right rear calipers on, attached the factory brake line and then went to tighten the banjo nut on the caliper itself only do find out that it would not tighten up. The POS screw was about 1 or 2 millimeters to long to work with the supplied copper crush washers. I was pretty pissed to say the least. I ended up getting some extra copper crush washers from advanced auto parts and had to double up the washers between the fitting and the caliper. This allowed me to tighten everything down. I did the same thing for the rest of the calipers, front and rear and it seems to be working fine. I will be checking it closely just to make sure nothing starts to leak.

I searched the forum and found this problem has happened with the Technafit stainless steel lines in the past. It seems like they have a track record of packaging the wrong machine screws for use with the Brembo calipers. I will be calling them to see if I can get the correct hardware, but in the meantime everything is bolted up.




This was the quick fix to keep it from draining the master cylinder while I got extra washers. When I reinstalled everything I only put 1 washer between the fitting and the machine screw head.



Final Results
Before:



After:


Old calipers, rotors and lines for sale if anyone is interested.

 

looking good

 

Did you happen to change out your Master Cylinder?

I was talking with the service department at my local dealer about pricing on just BUYING the brembo calipers and such and getting the brakes changed out (that's if I can't find a used set somewhere like you did).

He indicated that I would need to replace the Master Cylinder with a different one if I went with the Brembos.

 

I did not, and from what I have read the master cylinder is the same part number, it is the booster that is different. Given at what an unholy job it would probably be to change it, and from people saying they have not had problems, I am going to leave it.

 

Cool. Thanks for the info

 

Nice mod!!!

 

Nice work, i dont think i can ever drive a Z with those standard brakes lol

 

I had the same problem when I got some technofit lines (i think that was the name) and had a hell of a time getting the refunded and got StopTechs instead because they did not fit the Brembos correctly. Same problem as you did. StopTech lines fit perfect. They did the R&D obviously.

 

Good job. Clean install.

 

Can't go wrong with Brembos...

 

ugh.. i want to do the same thing, how much did you pick up the brembos for?

 

good job! looks much better. you will like them way better than the standard brakes.

 

i need these badly

 

OP What year is your Z? if 06+ do your oem wheels clear the brembos?

 

man what was your technic for getting the rear rotor off. the front came off easy. but the back I am having trouble with.

 

Yes, my car is an 06, and the factory wheels cleared with room to spare. I had to get some new after market wheels though because my old ones did not clear the front Brembo calipers.

I took a big hammer and just whaled on it and it popped loose. At first I was being ginger and using a 2x2 board placed on the edge of the rotor and hitting semi hard. That wasn't budging it, so I just hit it very hard and it popped loose. The other side took 1 hit and it was loose. Don't be gentle and hit the rotor as far out on the edge that you can, it increases leverage.

 

Thanks for the reply. That was the answer I was hoping for. I do have aftermarket wheels too, but, looking to still get use from my OEMs (at least until the tires wear out)

 

Make sure your Ebrake is NOT on

 

And if it isn't on, beat the hell out of it