i recently picked up some z32 alum calipers from the yars at a good price, im planning to get them pwdercoated, anyone done this??

i know the caliper will have to be completly dissambled, so i figure ill use new seals and all.

 

i do powdercoating...i have done a few sets of calipers....and working on a valve cover

 

Jeff92se's old maxima's bbk... the car has already been posted by Jeff, but whatever...

-Polished TTZ calipers
-Cobra Rotors
-Z31 rear rotors
-No ABS

 

BTW, polished calipers FTW...It works out nicely because everything else under the hood is polished as well.

 

Polished = Gay.....Reflective Chrome Powdercoat is the way to go

 

Polished looks nice when it's first polished, but over time it looks like **** if you don't keep them looking nice. Jeff polished the calipers and sprayed them with high temp clear before I bought the car. The clear is starting to peel off right now, but they still look ok. Eventually I'll re-polish them and have them powder coated clear...or maybe I'll just have them powder coated reflective chrome like you said. Although, I wouldn't say that polished aluminum looks gay by any means, it's just a PITA.

 

[QUOTE=vsamoylov]pics of my set-up

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wut color are these calipers??

 

bare aluminum....and i didnt say polished looks gay i mean polishing brakes is gay....when u can send them to me to have refelctive chrome powder coat and when they get dirty u wash them with water and they look brand new

 

Ugh. I DID them because no one here at the time had them. I just wanted to see how long it would take. So got pics of yours?

Polishing brakes is no more "gay" than getting them powdercoated. Plus my clearcoat job lasted years. Not to bad for a 1st effort that cost $0

 

Finally....Q45/Cobra pics....







They sure don't look all that big in pics, but they sure as hell stop well now that they're broken in! My car also looks un-lowered in some pics...

 

they sure look un-painted in the pics, that's for sure

 

I was hoping to get em powdercoated, but never got around to it, so I'm just gonna have to paint em. Now.....silver or black?

 

silver on a silver car. black on a black car.

 

go black.. looks good.. should have mine within the month

 

92 300zxtt 30mm aluminum calipers
12.6" 04 maxima rotors
PBR Ultimate Ceramics
Blehmco bracket kit and SS lines

 

TTZ calipers with stock rears suck. I've always had beef about its brake bias. In the few months of having em on my car- like 6-8 months, I froze my rear calipers up and I pretty much had no brakes in the rear. On top of that I hated the added rotational mass the 04+ Maxima rotors had.

I'm back to stock cheap blank NAPA made in China 20 bux a piece rotors with Hawk pads, new rear calipers and my car stops better than those TTZ calipers ever did on my car but since this is a BBK thread here is some pics...

 

Is it possible to put the 350Z Gold Brembo Calipers on a 2002-2003 Maxima. I think that would be a sweet upgrade.

 

Yes it possible.. you can also use the sti calipers and the evo rotors.. worked for a 240sx without brackets.. should work for a maxima....

but not really efficient, since you can use the 300zx calipers.. a lot cheaper then getting those brembos.

 

Interesting! But if bolts on a 240sx, it won't just bolt onto a maxima w/o the usual milling of the rotor.

 

why isnt this thread stickied

 

Not when all it cost me is an $10 can of powder and a couple hours in my garage......i would never pay to have it done....I havent done mine yet because i wasnt about to disassmle brand new calipers...however when i get a deal on some aluminum calipers used (mine are cast iron ) i will cause i will want to rebuild anyway....

 

you complain about the brake bias, but then say that your rear calipers were frozen (it happens, probably unrelated to the TTZ calipers).

Then you replace the rear calipers and go back to stock....perhaps you should have replaced the rear calipers firts...

that's why I have 2-pc 6th gen rotors on the way

 

u baller.....i am thinking about getting 2 piece rotors when i need new ones...which ones did u go with

 

the only ones available that i'm aware of......Blehmco

 

Did you ever run aggressive pads in the rear and go to a lower friction front pad? you'd be amazed what swapping pad compounds will do for yout brake bias.

 

i was thinking the Baer ones for Cobra rotors...my bad...unless they do have them for 6th gens now I dunno

 

Kinda old pic, but its of the OG BBK from Precision Brakes, I beleive from the GD back in the day, 100K mi 6 sets of brake pads, 2 sets of rotors, and saving my life countless times when I needed it

 

Here's mine: 13" Cobra rotors, 2 Piston Infiniti Q45 Calipers, TechnaFit SS lines, Hawk HPS Pads, Motul RBF600 fluid. 17" Motegi DP6 wheels. First off they setup is outstanding. 2nd I don't like the rims to begin with (came with the car when I bought it). 3rd if you have these rims and are looking for a BBK, no way will a Z32 caliper fit, the Q45's had to be "milled" down with a dremel to clear the inner barrell.

But as for the brake setup, nothing compares. The old brembo replacements doesn't hold a candle.

 

Fresh new pics. I changed something

 

Irish, is it my eyes, or is the hat thinner on the 2-piece?

Can I ask how much?

 

must be the angle of the photo...rotor offset is the same as stock.

 

Irish, I believe your rotor vanes are directionally curved. If so, the rotors are installed on the incorrect side, you'll need to swap them. The vanes need to point backwards towards the rear of the car.

If they are straight vaned (pointing vertically outwards) like stock, then it doesn't matter.

http://www.apracing.com/roadcar/brak...tification.htm

EDIT:

taken from a StopTech kit

 

wierd.....that doesn't seem to make sense

if they're poinnted the other way, they won't be bringing air in....

I need to do some more research.....

I really don't want to do this AGAIN .....

 

thats the first thing that poped into my mind when i saw that picture.

 

learn something new every day Guess I'll be swapping them tomorrow. DOH!

 

that's what i was thinking, but maybe if they are curved the other way they allow how air to flow out better?

 

sickkk rotorsss how much weight did u save???

 

 

Has anybody used baer standard size crossdrilled/slotted rotors? Are they good for a stock set-up or are they just for show.

 

after a 2 week disaster its finally on... im not gonna even bother telling wut happened