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Fair enough, I'd strongly suggest starting by putting all new fluid through the system if you haven't changed it in the last 12 months. Just bleed the brakes until you see the colour of the fluid change at the caliper. As long as you don't let any air bubbles in while doing it this will probably give you a big increase in brake pedal feel.

Next up would be better pads, something like RB74 from Race Brakes if you are mostly doing street driving.

I'm guessing you've got a r33 gtst or r32 gtr? If so the calipers themselves are pretty good.

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duncan cheers

so u reckon there isnt a point in upgrading rotors too? i mainly use my car for street and the occasional drag and minimal track work.

basically i been hearing mixed comments...some say upgrade rotors and pads at the same time and some say pads first then rotors due to it not bedding in correctly, something like that.

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Hi d3lir10u5t, this is what I do for my Skylines. Measure the thickness of the rotors, if they are undersize then I replace them. If not, I get them machined and then put new pads in together with them. If the car has done over 100,000 k's I get the callipers serviced with new seals. At the same time I replace the rubber hoses with braided ones. Value for money pads are Bendix Ultimate, if I want better performance then I use Hawke blue compound or Performance Friction Carbon Metallics in the 97 compound. If the car is seeing any circuit work I use DBA slotted rotors.

The braking limit of my Skylines is the tyres, they let go long before the brakes do.

Hope that helps

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