My ethos with the 15 is to keep the spend low by waiting until something needs changing before upgrading.
Right, so I've got to the point of all round brake change as my rear discs are really old and all round the pads are down to the minimum (and well beyond
). So the economical time has come for bigger brakes.
I've decided a good value package is spacing out the OE calipers for larger discs and I'm getting DB Power's 290mm rear upgrade and 315mm fronts while keeping my choice of pads DS2500 which I really rate for road and track.
I reckon this should be a nice package as the upgrade force front and rear is within 2% so should keep the brake balance as Nissan intended. If there was another easy option on the rear I would have gone larger on the front but I think this should do the job.
My main issue on track (with my current package of slotted and grooved OE size front and solid rears with DS2500's all round) was overheating at the front. No fade to speak of but badly overheating (I've cooked the grease out of my front hubs - still no fade or judder though with this package which I suffered from massively with stock discs - so got a replacement pair of hubs with bearings in good condition a little while ago ready for this overhaul) so the size increase should sort that out I hope. If I still suffer post upgrade I'll add some extra cooling too.
Anyhow DB are out of stock right now so I'm waiting a little while and had to sort the rears as they were down to the backing plates and distributing a nasty dose of iron filings all over my wheels and now paint work (another story is the polishing thats going to follow to sort this out!). DB sorted me out with some stock rear pads in the meantime to get me safe again :thumbs:
I pulled off the rear caliper and found the seals had gone so the piston was corroded horribly. I cleaned it up pretty well and finally managed to get the piston screwed back into the caliper and everything back together. Of course its not perfect as the seals are just in place (rather than properly located on the recesses of the caliper) and the piston is really pitted so is likely to start sticking if I left it very long but it'll do until it all comes off again in the next couple of weeks for the new brackets, Brembo grooved discs and Ferrodo pads....
...so this gets me to the point of searching around and looking at everyones efforts at refurbing calipers. While it looks pretty straight forward I can also see that it can be a complete arse and time consuming. As i haven't already got spare sets (thinking about fronts now too) of calipers to do the job and keep the SpecR on the road (shes a daily driver) I'm thinking of getting some replacements ready for the upgrade.
I've found these from camskill (exchange prices £140 or +£60 for the rears)
Right now I "know" I need the rears but the fronts have done 100K+ and the overheating I've mentioned so could well be due for a refurb.
So here are the fronts they offer too...(exchange £110; or +£50 for the fronts)
From finding the refurb threads I've seen a few of you have changed the calipers to R33/32 setup.
Based on the above prices etc what do you think I should go for??
Do you think I should sell the calipers for someone else to refurb or do the exchange prices?
Or what about other choices for front calipers like the R33/32 ones? (the other rear options are more involved than I want right now). Unfortunately camskill don't appear to offer the skyline calipers as that could go into the mixing pot otherwise...
Thoughts ????
Right, so I've got to the point of all round brake change as my rear discs are really old and all round the pads are down to the minimum (and well beyond
). So the economical time has come for bigger brakes.I've decided a good value package is spacing out the OE calipers for larger discs and I'm getting DB Power's 290mm rear upgrade and 315mm fronts while keeping my choice of pads DS2500 which I really rate for road and track.
I reckon this should be a nice package as the upgrade force front and rear is within 2% so should keep the brake balance as Nissan intended. If there was another easy option on the rear I would have gone larger on the front but I think this should do the job.
My main issue on track (with my current package of slotted and grooved OE size front and solid rears with DS2500's all round) was overheating at the front. No fade to speak of but badly overheating (I've cooked the grease out of my front hubs - still no fade or judder though with this package which I suffered from massively with stock discs - so got a replacement pair of hubs with bearings in good condition a little while ago ready for this overhaul) so the size increase should sort that out I hope. If I still suffer post upgrade I'll add some extra cooling too.
Anyhow DB are out of stock right now so I'm waiting a little while and had to sort the rears as they were down to the backing plates
and distributing a nasty dose of iron filings all over my wheels and now paint work (another story is the polishing thats going to follow to sort this out!). DB sorted me out with some stock rear pads in the meantime to get me safe again :thumbs:I pulled off the rear caliper and found the seals had gone so the piston was corroded horribly. I cleaned it up pretty well and finally managed to get the piston screwed back into the caliper and everything back together. Of course its not perfect as the seals are just in place (rather than properly located on the recesses of the caliper) and the piston is really pitted so is likely to start sticking if I left it very long but it'll do until it all comes off again in the next couple of weeks for the new brackets, Brembo grooved discs and Ferrodo pads....
...so this gets me to the point of searching around and looking at everyones efforts at refurbing calipers. While it looks pretty straight forward I can also see that it can be a complete arse and time consuming. As i haven't already got spare sets (thinking about fronts now too) of calipers to do the job and keep the SpecR on the road (shes a daily driver) I'm thinking of getting some replacements ready for the upgrade.
I've found these from camskill (exchange prices £140 or +£60 for the rears)
Right now I "know" I need the rears but the fronts have done 100K+ and the overheating I've mentioned so could well be due for a refurb.
So here are the fronts they offer too...(exchange £110; or +£50 for the fronts)
From finding the refurb threads I've seen a few of you have changed the calipers to R33/32 setup.
Based on the above prices etc what do you think I should go for??
Do you think I should sell the calipers for someone else to refurb or do the exchange prices?
Or what about other choices for front calipers like the R33/32 ones? (the other rear options are more involved than I want right now). Unfortunately camskill don't appear to offer the skyline calipers as that could go into the mixing pot otherwise...
Thoughts ????
