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170k240
what did you use for the cables? splice stock with stock, or skyline cables?
did you need to make any brackets for the brakes? what rotors did you use?
sorry for the bombardment of questions, just interested. thanks
The swap is pretty straight forward. It's just a complete Z32 brake setup, but with STi Brembo calipers. So that's Z32 ebrake internals, Z32 rear rotor, Z32 ebrake cables, and I have a cable extender kit from Autobacs to finish the cable conversion. The STi calipers bolt on with no brackets or anything. The stock bolts and stock brake hoses work perfectly!
The Z32 rotors are not *exactly* correct as they don't sit centered in the channel in the caliper. It's off by 1-2mm (channel is about 30mm wide). I've looked over a lot of rotor dimensions and I think the R33 GT-R (Brembo) rear rotors will be perfect. It's just a little hard and expensive to track those down, and I got these rotors new for $40 for the pair.
The fronts are just G35 Brembo rotors and G35 Brembo calipers. Drill the spindle bolt holes out 2mm over and you're done. A lot of people poo-poo drilling out the spindles, so I had a few Mechanical Engineers check it out. It should still be plenty beefy.