Best Brake Upgrade for Looks

[Kinkstaah]

10 hours ago, Old man 32 GTR said:

R35 brakes for sure, that’s what I went for, for functional and looks, got my set with new oem rotors and dixel pads. 380mm rear and 390mm fronts, just me mindful it will limit your wheel options 

 

Is a R35 GTR BBK still a 15K adventure? Are there cheaper options available for this as an aside? After looking for replacement pads for my kit - OEM BBK's for pad selection seem great blah blah blah.

Are there any other options?

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

1 hour ago, Kinkstaah said:

Is a R35 GTR BBK still a 15K adventure? Are there cheaper options available for this as an aside? After looking for replacement pads for my kit - OEM BBK's for pad selection seem great blah blah blah.

Are there any other options?

I am going to buy a R33 upright, then will buy a set of those Z1 350Z to 370Z dog bones and see how much I need to mill off the dogbone to allow the Akebono caliper to fit on. Another option is to space out the dogbone, which might require more work.

I am not sure how thick the R34 GT-t upright caliper mounting tabs are, as this will influence how everything sits. The caliper essentially needs to sit at the same height as the original calipers.

(not my photo)

[DaymoR32]

1 hour ago, Dose Pipe Sutututu said:

I am going to buy a R33 upright, then will buy a set of those Z1 350Z to 370Z dog bones and see how much I need to mill off the dogbone to allow the Akebono caliper to fit on. Another option is to space out the dogbone, which might require more work.

I am not sure how thick the R34 GT-t upright caliper mounting tabs are, as this will influence how everything sits. The caliper essentially needs to sit at the same height as the original calipers.

(not my photo)

HFM are currently working on a set of adapters for the 34. im sure some for 32's and 33's will be around the corner

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cs0bls6SrBY/?img_index=2

[Kinkstaah]

24 minutes ago, DaymoR32 said:

HFM are currently working on a set of adapters for the 34. im sure some for 32's and 33's will be around the corner

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cs0bls6SrBY/?img_index=2

Great! So this is a 355/350 kit with Nissan OEM bolting onto my R34 with all of the pad options that an OEM car can provide instead of Attakd/G4/Ksport (which are all slightly different) trying to cross reference fkin everything. With OEM dust boots.

In other words, exactly what I was hoping for!

Do the calipers cost 10K+ like R35 GTR ones?

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

26 minutes ago, DaymoR32 said:

HFM are currently working on a set of adapters for the 34. im sure some for 32's and 33's will be around the corner

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cs0bls6SrBY/?img_index=2

If that's the case, I might as well not bother buying things to experiment with  

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

2 minutes ago, Kinkstaah said:

Do the calipers cost 10K+ like R35 GTR ones?

If I were you, I would buy them now before every man and his dog does. A full set of Akebono can be had about the $1500 mark used.

[Murray_Calavera]

I thought this might be interesting / relevant. About 23:45 into the podcast they discuss putting big brakes on a modern car with ABS. Might not be applicable for our dinosaur datsuns though.