awesome! i'm glad this thread helped someone else. Hopefully people will realize that this is an economical and worthwhile swap! I had my doubts at first, for sure.

 

Now that you can buy the Akebono brakes off the 370Z for like $1200, an upgrade is really affordable.

I wish somebody would find an in-expensive tool to spread the pads and compress the pistons to make changing them even easier. Just like this...



...but cheaper than $225.

 

Pumping old thread.

I'm running into similar thing and made sure that I bled correctly (using motive power bleeder).

The pedal seems softer and travel more compared to how I felt on the Z.

Is this normal?

 

There is a WAY cheaper way! Possibly cheaper than this but I'm a BluePoint/Snap-On junkie!

$52 CDN bought me one of these:


It's a BluePoint Universal Caliper Brake tool. It EASILY presses the pistons back into the caliper. You can either spin the rod by hand or wrench. I use one of these for all the buses i work on (H.E.T.) & the calipers on some buses are massive so this will definitely work on stock/Brembo calipers!

 

Thanks. I'll have to look into one of those.

Do you know the part number?

All I've been able to find through Google is these...



Blue Point YA8610A Universal Brake Caliper Tool

 

Found another - doesnt look too bad - looks easy to use and ITS CHEAP..dual piston too...$9.99 (weary cause you do get what you pay for..)

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...3319&viewitem=



32 bucks new