Cody 82 ZXT

Heres sneek peek http://album.hybridz.org/showphoto.php?photo=2532&cat=500 http://album.hybridz.org/showphoto.php?photo=2533&cat=500&page=1 84 300ZX non-turbo rotors 11.5" I think Caliper bracket is made out of 1/2" steel I think you can see how it was made from the pics. Let me know if more pics would be helpful. So far it seems to work well. Before I installed the front kit the rears were over powering. It was also like this before the larger rotors and all. Basically it seems as thou the stock caliper with the larger rotor made a small differnce in braking power over the stock rotor. It also looks alot better then the 10" rotor with the 17" rims. I ordered some of the Poterfield R4S pads for the front today and I'll have to see how everything works out after I get them in and broken in some. I think I may need 1 or 2 things or maybe even both beofore I get finished with the brakes. 1. New pads for the rear. I think I'll try the Potorfields for the back also if I like the fronts. 2. Proportioning valve to help balance out the system. It may take both items to get a good balance. I'll report back on the rear setup as soon as I can get some real miles on it.

The "kit" that I have and seveal others in the Z community is from JSK (link I have is broken) Basically it was rotor hat, cailper braket, and lots of bolts. You supplied the calipers, pads, rotor, brake line adators, and anything else that came up. I have about 700.00 or so into the kit. At the time I bought the JSK stuff there was not a Wilwood kit in the market now Dave at Arizona Z has two kits for the ZX. I would have bought one from him. It's been kinda a pain getting all the right stuff together. Here is the link http://www.arizonazcar.com/510brakes.html. I would have gotten the 13" kit if it was out when I got started.

Well, I bled both calipers again with the bleeders pointing straight up and that seemed to help it out. I also removed the pad from the offending piston and put another pad in from my factory caliper. Just so happens that it fits and holds in place similar to the superlite pad. Anyway I stepped on the brakes and the pistons came out more than they had before proving that they were not defective. So now I decieded to just take it out for a drive with a pedal that was not as firm as I would like. As it turned out the more I drove and used the pads the better they felt. And let me just say that they are AWESOME. Wow they are so much better than the factory setup. The pads I have were used and I don't remember excatly what part # they are "Polymatrix" but, they are to agressive (lots of dust) so I will still need to find a better street pad. Before when you hit the brakes hard the back would always lock up first. Now the front are way more powerful. I'm now going to try some different pads and see how that goes after that I'll install a popertioning valve and adjust the bias for a better overall setup. Thanks for your help as always.

I've finally gotten the time to install the JSK Wilwood brake kit on my ZX. Everything has gone the normal route as far as installation is concerned but, I have what seems to me to be a defective caliper. Here are the details. The passenger side inboard set of pistons are not moving near as much as the outboard side. Meaning almost not at all. On the driver side of the car both sets of pistons move an equal amount. I have bled both sets of piston on the passenger side several times. I don't feel like that is the proublem. I will try to dismount the caliper and put something in between the pads and try to bleed the caliper with the bleed screws pointing perfectly up so I can elimnate this as a possiblity. Any suggestions?

Hit the yellow pages and find a shop that is a "welding shop" those guys get some much experience welding different stuff that the coller should be a no brainer for them.

Looking good. Nice and clean.

What are you going to do with the vent at the top of the valve cover? Also why didn't you use a turbo manifold?

That is really nice!!! Gives me inspiration to work on one in the future.

Took me a second to get it. Good reply....

Sucks his car blew up. Sure makes for great conversation on HybridZ!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thats just messed up!!

Ditto

That was a good one.

Yasin, Thanks for the info. I've been thinking of some sort of collar that could be clamped to the housing but, I like this idea much better. No worries about crushing the shock body or it slipping. Do you have a close up pic of the bottm of the assembled shock assembley? Would be great if you did. No hurry.