Brakes

[PranK]

Hey Guys,

Having done my suspension, seats and a few other goodies - i purchased a pair of S15 rotors and calipers today for the 180. I will be fitting them on monday.

Anyone wanna warn me about anything before i do it tho?

I have to buy a bleeder bottle too...

[AlexR31]

I got sent the following by a guy who'd converted his Silvia to 5 stud. Hope this helps

s14 hubs front and rear however best only change hub centre on the rear and keep standard rear brakes, the hub centre bolts straight on with 4 bolts, trust me this is the easiest way plus rear brakes dont really do much anyway.

s14 lower control arms will have to be used with adjustable s13 castor rods. Any nissan brakes will bolt on such as r32,33,34,GTR,GTS-T,300ZX, 200SX etc etc Last you will need some wheels to fit, any OE nissan wheels are cheap and look cool too! If you dont want excessive negative camber you will also need adjustable camber tops (I have -3.6 without them!!)

You will need to drill out the s13 struts from 12mm to 14mm and buy 14mm high tensile bolts as the s14 hubs have 14mm holes.

All and all it is an expensive and in depth process but pretty straight forward and WELL worth it.

P.S The stock master cylinder is fine but you will have less pedal travel with a bigger nissan one such as 300ZX etc and they will all bolt straight up! You will need to cut down the brake line bolt before it will bolt into the calliper as it is a little too long.

I used 300zx discs and callipers on the front and stock brakes with only the centre hub changed on the rear as there is a LOT of mucking around with handbrake mounts etc. I have so much -ve camber because the s14 lower control arms are 10mm longer this is why you need adjustable castor rods.

Hope this is useful

[Merli]

Hmmmm... Didn't I just read that someone did this conversion and needed wheel spacers so his rims would clear the larger S15 calipers??

I might be mistaken, don't quote me on this

BTW, excellent brake upgrade Christian