My question is will these calipers work with my existing rotors and the brackets being sold by BlehmCo and are they worth the swap for $170 + 200 for brackets and lines. I have'nt seen them in person but I might have to also buy a rebuild kit. Or should I just try and find some rebuilt 30mm calipers, any help guys??? I only plan on doing the front calipers for now..

 

err........

after all is said and done you'll spend around $500 with rebuilt calipers to have used brakes on your car.

Check out fastbrakes.com for a set for our cars.

Kamski

 

26mm will not work. I bought the rebuilt ones for 200 and then the brackets and lines for 200, so that = 400, but I am a deal hound and will wait until the right price comes my way.

 

Cost of pads?

 

$28 for monroe cermaics...rebate my friend.

 

So at absolute best case $428 for a used bbk. HMMM..


$625 I think for a brand new BBK with Wilwood Aluminium Calipers, Aluminium brackets, SS lines and HP+ pads. Right from fastbrakes.com hard to say no to new.. :-D

 

I guess the new GTRs that blow transmissions brand new validate your "newness" statement (whole nother ball of wax with the launch "feature"). Not trying to argue here but you seem bitter about the nissan "rebuilt" calipers. If you are getting kickbacks, then thats fine...just dont get mad when people dont buy the "new" willwoods and choose to have "rebuilt" calipers. Why would these perform any less than "new" over $200 more willwoods. Mine work fine and so do the others that have them....so I guess I will deal with my "used" POS brakes that stop on a dime for me.

Getting back on topic and not getting in a pissing contest over brakes, buy which ever ones as they both perform well.

 

The other main advantage for using Nissan brakes is that pads and rebuild kits can be picked up at local auto parts store instead of having to order online. Also,they have an OEM look to them with the NISSAN logo, which I like as well.

 

O wow, ok..... not my intention, but you got a smoking deal on your setup. And dont get me wrong its a great setup, I know what Deus puts his car through at the track with the same setup you have. So dont get me wrong here, I'm not saying it bad or anything, but you know how to re-build a caliper and get the parts at a great price.

An average person most likely would want to find a kit for their car without scouring up and down the net for a piece'd together kit. I mean looking around just a set of HP+ pads costs what, $80 through our sponsors? Now we can't compare Monroe (had them) to Wilwood BP-10&20 (had them) or HP+ (have them) pads. Different league of braking and price class all together.

You found a whicked whicked deal, thats awesome, but like I said thats not a price anyone can just run into on a daily basisHeck $550 would still be a great deal for your setup, I mean you get essentially the same thing minus the caliper warranty, but that can be solved with a rebuild kit.

All I'm saying is that the 300ZX kit is fantastic for the $$ but when driving a flagship car like the Maxima, saving $120 - $200 on something as cruicial as brakes seems............... well you know.

Just trying to point out the obvious, I put up the addy for the site where you can buy the kit not for a "kick back" but for the other 50 new maxima owners who stumble on this site and say "Hey thats AWESOME!" as opposed to "now what else do I need to buy, and where do I get that now?"

So in closing, I didnt mean to belittle your breaks, believe me I know they are great breaks. Its just easier to get a brand new product on one site and install it then to spend countless hours trying to find the parts you need on-line and having to rebuild them, clean them, install them and pray they don't leak...... (RIGHT DEUSKI? ;-))

"My badness if I offending anyone", I LIKE VEERYYYYY MAAAACH!

 

Ur right Kamski . . and so far no runs, drips, or errors with my 300zx TTs

 

This is where written and actually talking with a person clash. Forums can do this and I apologize for taking it the wrong way. Yes it is more difficult to rebuild than buy new (unless you have air tools). I do think the willwoods are a great deal. I like having nissan parts for my nissan when I can get them. The deals are out there as I just sold my 300zx calipers for $250. I do get the route as to where why would someone want to go through the hassle of finding or rebuilding them when they can spens a little more and get the willwoods...I agree. No harm no foul.

 

And oddly, we have almost the exact same car with the exact same mods. Xcept the brakes :-D

 

great brakes

 

are you guys using the upgraded calipers for looks or functionality?. i had the 300zx TT calipers on my 98 240sx, it didnt really feel that different from the stock ones. some folx told me its because i had the stock master cylinder, i needed something with more pressure. whatever the reson is, i never looked into gettin these for my maxima, but they do look good behind some nice wheels

 

As long as your master cylinder is large enough to create enough pressure for the pistons to expand you should be good.

The main advantage of the 4 Pot or 6 Pot calipers is the equal pad pressure on both sides of the brake rotor and less deflection from the pads them selves.

The second advantage is the weight of the aluminium calipers. My stock maxima calipers are in the vacinity of 17lbs.... I dont recall the exact number but its crazy heavy. When I installed the aluminium ones the weight dropped to 4lbs per side. Couple that with dual piece floating rotors and you can save significant amount of unsprung weight from the front of your car.

Imagine this......

Stock Rotors 14lbs per side,
Stock Calipers 17lbs per side,
Misc Hardware 2lbs per side,

Entire shipped carboard box weight of aluminium calipers, brackets, rotors, hats, pads, misc hardware..........18lbs. Thats an EPIC weight save

Kamski

 

ive been wanting up grade my brake kit to the 350z nismo bbk. will it fit on my 05 maxima. i think it should since the 350z is a coupe version of the maxima. i believe the rotors are the same size can anyone help me with the info thanks for the help!!!

 

I just imagined this and it was awesome! I hate messing with the brake, bleeding them out, compression the cylinders, draining, then pumping bck up without have a loose brake pedal, not bad for a whole new brake setup, but to pay someone for install could be crappy

 

A GTR Tranny verse one of the top of the line brake calipers on the market...

 

I watched stock 350z pistons come apart at mossport. The rubber seals around the front pistons melted. Safe to say that car was off the road for the remainder Of the weekend.

I put enoug events on my wilwoods to wear out a whole 350z not just the brakes :-D and......... Track season is starting up here already. Muahahahahahhahahahahahha!!!!