Guest Anonymous Posted October 18, 2000 Share Posted October 18, 2000 I was in my favorite local junkyard poking around while they sucked the freon out of my gimpy MSA A/C system so I could remove it..... Found 2 or 3 maximas with bolt on brackets, but they were the flat brackets and not the offset ones. The flat brackets are just about worthless right? You do need the bent brackets for 82-83 ZX rear brakes, correct? Can someone tell me what the spacing is between the caliper holes on the maxima brackets (I assume the flat and curved brakets are the same?) so I can better look for some calipers that fit? I'm guessing that if 82-83 rear calipers fit on those brackets that perhaps 87-89 turbo rear brakes will fit also? ------------------ Morgan morgan@z31.com http://carfiche.com http://z31.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest scca Posted October 18, 2000 Share Posted October 18, 2000 87-89 turbo rotors are a larger diamater than the ones i use for 5 lug so you cant use those with the maxima brackets! maxima brackets only work for the ZX rotor diamater........ you can always redrill your rotors to 5 lug if you dont want to spend the $100pr on the new ones i sell.....thats IF your doing a 5 lug conversion- ------------------ Mike http://www.fonebooth.com raceparts and brakeupgrades Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted October 18, 2000 Share Posted October 18, 2000 I'm just wondering as I have almost 2 complete sets of 87-89 turbo brakes collecting dust, it would be cheap, easy, and fast to use those if it's reasonably possible. I don't want 5 lugs, I will be keeping my new panasports thank you very much! I was thinking of the maxima brackets and a small adaptor plate to fit the calipers if necessary(I assume it will be necessary). The plate could be thick enough to act as a spacer also, and drilling the rotors for 4 lug is easy enough.... I'm thinking the same for the fronts, but with perhaps z32 calipers and rotors. Also thinking about z32 calipers in the rear.... Would be easy(they're not sliding calipers) and very effective.... I'm looking for more brake capacity in the rear as my car will end up with much more rear weight bias than normal. I guess I'm gonna go to the junkyard at lunch and measure various rear brake stuff and see what I can come up with. Anyone know what the spacing is on the rear maxima brackets and/or stock front calipers? ------------------ Morgan morgan@z31.com http://carfiche.com http://z31.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danno74Z Posted October 19, 2000 Share Posted October 19, 2000 Morgan, Anyone know what the spacing is on the rear maxima brackets and/or stock front calipers? I have a new set of brackets (offset ones) and the bolt hole spacing is 4.5" center to center Danno74Z Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest scca Posted October 19, 2000 Share Posted October 19, 2000 Morgan.. you can use the turbo rear setup and redrill the rotor and youwill then have vented rear brakes for all your trouble. changing rotors in the future will be a hassle and you might as well forget about the maxima bracket and just make weld on ones. i've used the later turbo rears a couple of times. for the fronts just stay with the 4runner stuff or try what ross did to get a bit more without going to the full race setups ------------------ Mike http://www.fonebooth.com raceparts and brakeupgrades Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danno74Z Posted October 19, 2000 Share Posted October 19, 2000 Morgan, I'm using the Maxima bracket without issue. Mike Gibson, You say "you might as well forget about the maxima bracket" Why? I know this is your opinion but some explanation to back that up would be appreciated. What did you find? Facts please. Danno74Z Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest scca Posted October 19, 2000 Share Posted October 19, 2000 Danno, are you using the maxima bracket with the larger diam. 11" rear rotor? i was under the impression that the maxima bracket worked with the 10" solid rotor. i never tried it on the larger rotor i just assumed that since it fit the smaller one it wouldnt fit on the larger one. ------------------ Mike Gibson mike@fonebooth.com http://www.fonebooth.com/brakes.html raceparts and brake upgrades. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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