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justinfox

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Hi all,

I have read over a few threads on brake pads but I am a little worried that my brakes might have other problems outside of pad choice.

I have an R32 GT-R and it's brakes are so bad I think my car should be defected!

I have:

- twice flushed the fluids and replaced with super Motul stuff

- machined all rotors

- replaced stock pads with EBC Greenstuff pads

And still, after all of this work and cash I find the brakes to be shockingly bad. When I hit the pedal it feels squishy and soft and the car will pull up but only if I absolutely hammer the pedal in. When I really stab the brake I can hear the ABS "pshhht" but can't feel the ABS... strange shit.

I am lost for direction now. Any suggestions? I know my brakes can get a lot better than this.

I want the car set up for track days so I don't care how long the pads last me so long as they work. I don't care too much for cost at this stage as I need to be able to stop!!! But I would prefer to do problem solving on the kit I have on as oposed to splashing out on a new set of Brembos etc.

Worse comes to worse I will have to travel out of the city to Wetherill Park to visit racebrakes but it's far away for me... unless any of you know some brakes specialists near the city in Sydney?

Thanks in advance for any help.

benm Grand Master

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Give RaceBrakes a call and book it in for 30mins on a Saturday and get them to take it for a drive around the block. They diagnosed my problem within 100m of driving and then spent the remainder of the 2km drive commenting on other components (suspension, tyres etc).

Duncan Grand Master

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I guess the thing you haven't mention is how the master cylinder is, and personally I don't have much time for the EBC pads, they faded pretty quickly.

But anyway, like Ben said, try Racebrakes, those guys know what they are talking about.

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Thanks guys.

I have given Racebrakes a call. Greg was it? Very helpful guy.

He didn't think too much of my EBC Greenstuff pads and suggested (since my car is primarily a track car) that instead of buying RB74 pads I go all the way and get their top of the line race pads all round so I have (Damn it $710!!!).

If this doesn't stop me now I will be terribly upset!

benm Grand Master

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Takes bugger all to recondition a master cyl. But saying that I wouldn't give advice on how to do it to a skyline as I have never done one.... only nissan patrols and such
My advice is don't bother. I had a new seal kit put in my Master Cylinder which did fark all, I then had it bored and sleeved which made it "driveable" in the end (and after 6mths of fighting with my local mechanic) I bought a brand new genuine master cylinder from Nissan Japan.

If only I listened to RaceBrakes advice 9mths earlier (I was broke at the time and saving $200 here or there was what I tried to do). In the end I spent the money and couldn't be happier, just wish i'd done it 9mths earlier.

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