Rear Brake Options???

[sooley]

Hi all

 

I ahve fitted Nissan 4 spot to the front of my car and think it would make allot more sense to fit the matching Nissan 2 spot at the rear. Anyone know of a fitting kit to suit this type of conversion.

Thanks in advance.

 

Sooley

[RedNeckZ]

Please, do a search first. It is well covered in this site. You can do it three or four different ways. Check at the top of this list. If I remember right it has a post all of its own. Classic Z Car Club also handles it a lot in their forum. The hard part for you is finding what you have in your part of the world you can take it off and use. Good Luck, Rich. Seventh sticky from the top is the site you need to check out. It should have the info you need.

[Cal Poly Zmanaustin]

Please, do a search first. It is well covered in this site. You can do it three or four different ways. Check at the top of this list. If I remember right it has a post all of its own. Classic Z Car Club also handles it a lot in their forum. The hard part for you is finding what you have in your part of the world you can take it off and use. Good Luck, Rich. Seventh sticky from the top is the site you need to check out. It should have the info you need.

 

RedNeckZ,

It's well covered???? I've searched and read everything I could find on this topic. Not trying to stir the pot, but did you read his request? The question was regarding options on doing a rear brake swap using Z32 2-pot calipers. I admit I could be blind, but it's been broached only as a custom job. The sticky does have kits mentioned, but not for the Z32 swap.

 

Sooley,

Checked out your site. Gorgeous car looks to be coming along nicely. I too and looking to do this swap. Everything I have read leads me to believe you will need to fab your own brackets. I am not far enough along to share any pics that would help you. I am planning on fabbing a bracket for the rear and ditching the parking brake. I plan to use a different rotor other than the Z32 rear one. My logic is it will reduce weight and should make the bracket less difficult to design by using a rotor with a smaller (more shallow) hat. I test fitted a rear Z31 (first gen 300zx here) rotor and looks like you could do a flat bracket and mill to spec. Also, I thought about using a Ford Mustang GT 12 inch rotor in the rear. Basically, I am looking for rear rotor that is mass produced, with a more shallow hat than the Z32 rear rotor, 12 inch or slightly bigger and maybe .81 in thick. Should have plently of thermal capacity, be easy/cheap to replace.

 

Hope that helps and welcome to the forum.