right, I think I'm right in saying mines a series 2 car which I thought was late 92 onwards. I need to get some calliper repair kits and looking at courtesy there are 2 different types 90-92 and 93-96. My question is how do I know which callipers I have?

 

Cheers

 

Vijay

One type of calliper is aluminium, the other is iron. The early ones are ally and have additional fins for cooling, or so I'm led to believe. It may be that the Series II cars didn't get to the US until 1993.

 

Early:

 

Late:

 

Mmm i got some from an H reg 91 Z32 TT and they look like this.

 

 

 

They are cast iron.

 

Interesting, well it does prove that the information I have about the design of the callipers is correct.

It is possible that the H reg car had already had replacements from a later model.

Andy, I don't really know the history of the calipers, I bought them off someone who spkoe minimal English, but said he bought them from a scrappers and said they came from a 91H car. That's all I know.

They do look authentically old though you have to agree.

Vijay

I think Nissan took £35 for the caliper repair kits including a begged for discount. I changed mine. See my earlier post.

The calipers were same on my 92 so called series 2 UK model

Willie

I was told by Pete at SE that he has found that Jap Zs have alloy calipers and UK have the cast ones - at least in the early years.

 

This mirrors what Mitsubishi did. The 1991 Jap spec Shogun (i.e. Pajero) switched over to alloy calipers. It took until 1996 for them to use up their old supply of cast ones on cars destined for the UK market !

 

Dave