Does anyone know if the rear sports dics for the 300zx are the same as for the tt, on the brembo site I've got a price for the tt rears $259, though when trying to order them they are not showing in stock at all. The telephone number is a 1800 U.S number, does anyone no the international number? they are stating they ship international, yet no international number! Also is this a good choice of disc?

Cheers

rob

Hello Rob,

 

Why are upgrading the rears. As far as I'm aware most of the braking is done up front. I don't think I've heard of anyone bothering with the rears (unless they're worn of course).

 

Vijay

cheers for replying, yeah my rear disc are real worn,rusty in the middle part thought I might as well do them at the same time as the front, foung the discs on the Brembo web site, although having difficulty buying them, i.e. they don't have a source fro U.K Customers, no international number?

Try :- http://www.eliteauto.ca

I've just bought some standard rear disks to replace my chewed up ones from Johnny Grasshopper for £85.00

 

I've got uprated rears, grooved with EBC blacks - I think the disks were AP racing

 

Tim

Rob,

 

As Chris mentioned, Johnny (Grasshopper in the contacts section) would be the man to phone.

He's a nightmare to get through to, but probably worth it.

 

Good luck.

 

Vijay

You can try 3g brakes http://www.3gbrakes.co.uk/ in the UK, they use Brembo castings.

 

cheers for the info, I checked out the 3G web site much cheaper! I think I'll go with the 20 gr's front and back, green stuff on the front, black on the black on the back, steel braided brake lines, is this enough two have "noraml" braking, my brother in-law just got a clio thing stops on a dime. Also do u think the choice of 20gr's will wear the brake pads out two quickly?

Rob,

 

brake lines are £60 from Smithy or Jeff I believe.

 

Glad to see you've got it sorted and saved some money.

 

Vijay

Cheers vijay, thats helped me out as lot, one other thing does anyone have a bra for the front of the car? would save a lot of stones bouncing up and damaging the paintwork, saw a bra for mirrors on a U.S. site, though would be better for the for the front.

cheers rob

..and to answer your other question, 1800 numbers in the US are generally dialled by 001 800.....

 

Cheers

Anita.

Originally posted by ChrisC:

I've just bought some standard rear disks to replace my chewed up ones from Johnny Grasshopper for £85.00

 

Johnny sells chewed up ones for £85?

 

I have 3G 20g's on the front, and will probably put 3G 20g's on the back too when I get round to fitting the rear Zed calipers.

 

 

Just had my brake hoses replaced with steel braided along with DOT5.1 fluid, much better!

 

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Z first and anything else is secondary!

John Newcomb (NukeEm)

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just ordered from 3g no problems took 5mins. ordered the 10 GR's front and back greenstuff&blackstuff, pads won't wear as much as 20 GR's, and AP 5.1 just gotta get some steel braided hose's and copper slips. I'm keping the standard calipers whats the best way to recondition them, cars got 103k?

Cheers

rob b

Got 3G 20grs on the front and been great so far. Probably done nearly 2000miles now and not nearly as much dust on wheels as the stock ones and no sign of visible loss of Mintex pad thickness yet. I fitted them with the spirals going out from the centre as they rotate instead of the other way. Supposedly not quite as strong braking but less pad wear and noise this way. Only noise I hear is with very hard braking all the way to a stop from high speed- sort of rrrr noise. Guess thats the grooves! Performance great IMHO and now vibes!

Anybody tried them on track?

Willie

Correction - no vibes!

Not tried them on the track, but I do get the 'rrrrrr' noise (LOL ) when braking hard, I test them every day to be sure.

I'm using greenstuff, std Zed TT calipers, braided hoses and the 20G's and it feels like it's going to stand car on it's nose.

probably not, but compared to the std S13 brakes there ace!

 

Jezz.

 

Originally posted by Jezz_S13:

Not tried them on the track, but I do get the 'rrrrrr' noise (LOL ) when braking hard, I test them every day to be sure.

I'm using greenstuff, std Zed TT calipers, braided hoses and the 20G's and it feels like it's going to stand car on it's nose.

probably not, but compared to the std S13 brakes there ace!

 

Jezz.

 

Hi Jezz. It's funny. All Z owners want to junk STD 4 pots and spend £2000 on monster AP setups. All S13 owners want to bolt on STD Z calipers. Strange innit???

 

Regards

 

Robert

 

 

 

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Originally posted by dunk300zxtt:

Hi Jezz. It's funny. All Z owners want to junk STD 4 pots and spend £2000 on monster AP setups. All S13 owners want to bolt on STD Z calipers. Strange innit???

 

Tis strange, but decent discs, hoses and pads make a difference on the Zed, decent discs, pads, hoses and 4-pot calipers makes a much bigger difference on a car 400Kg lighter.

 

But even more strange is the later S13 92 on had 280mm discs, so boys with the pre 92 cars (257mm discs) want my old crappy calipers and think it's a good mod!!! Now that's strange.

 

Jezz.

 

 

 

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