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Originally Posted by ultimateirving
Did you change rotors? I thought you have to use Altima rotors as a minimum cuz the 240 weren't quite thick enough. That's what my research pointed to.
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First off no i re used the old q45 rotors that came with my conversion.Second off, you may need to re look up the whole q45 front brake install, you will notice info on the rotors you seem to be confused about lol..
my s14 (SE original 5lug) has 94 q45 front calipers/rotors/pads/caliper brackets. You use q45 rotors when doing this swap.
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Originally Posted by zerodameaon
Well you don't want them to lock up, what size tires are you running and how grippy are they. That will factor into how easy it is to lock it up.
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I am running g35 oem 19" rays engineering wheels 19x8 f and 19x8.5 R
225/40/19f these are in like new condition
245/40/19R these are balding from me blowing the tires off
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Originally Posted by WakeBHR
wait are saying it "seems" like it would be hard? or it IS hard to lock em up.
cuz if we are talking hypothetically, your an idiot.
next time it rains or you4 on wet pavement stab your brakes with agood amount of force. they will lock up trust me
to the guy above me. WTF? you use q45 rotors drilled out to 4 lug. or altima rotors with shims. why would you even try to use your 240 rotor? defeats the purpuse of upgrading your brakes.
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yes they will lock up if i made them. but i mean during normal city driving it just feels like it needs a smaller bore master cylinder. (keep in mind i am a newcomer from building hondas for the last 10 years...which on hondas changing the master cylinder to be appropriate to the front and or/rear brake upgrade you install.
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Originally Posted by WakeBHR
he obviously thinks he need to be able to lock up his fro94nts for some reason, but its not foinf what he wants on dry pavement. which it dounds like they are operating perfectly.
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i do not "want" to lock up but i felt like it needs more pressure sent to the calipers than it is receiving as of now.
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Originally Posted by crunchy_g
You mentioned you felt the brakes aren't "AS strong as they use to be". This could be a perception thing. You replaced the RR brake caliper. The LR brake caliper May be dragging, ESPECIALLY if its the original. It wouldn't hurt to replace the LR caliper & replace the stock rubber brake line hoses w/ Stainless steel brake lines. I have a S13 w/ remanufactured Q45 front calipers & brackets. Running front Q45 slotted/drilled rotors that I drilled to 4 bolt pattern. I'm also running stock BMC. Like stated above the stock BMC is fine for Q45 caliper/rotor/pad Upgrade. Hope u get it figured out.
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i have replaced the RF and the RR calipers so far because when i received my q45 set up it came with one bad caliper.
SO, with all this summed up.... I have installed rebuilt RF and RR caliper (the rr was leaking!!! wtf? lol) and as it stands right now i got the LF and the LR rebuilt calipers below my computer desk here at work waiting for me to come off the money so i can install them.
I also plan on installing SS all the way around.