So I bought 300zx rotors and calipers… front and rear. The thing is, i want to stay 4lug for now as i only have the rear 5 lug hubs.
I’m wondering as I’m here in oakville who can do this job properly without messing up or making an unsafe/half assed rotor out of the one i have.
Machine shops or?
Help appreciated,
Hi 8)
i dont recommend drilling holes in factory casting suspension parts.
the only thing i can think of is to wait till you can find some wheels
its not worth it and you will probably throw it out of balance and have a shimmy all the time.
rotors arent suspension parts !?@!
take a factory 4 bolt rotor along to any machine shop and ask them. all they need to do is line up one of the holes and drill the other 3.
i have done this twice in the past with no problems at all.
in fact, i am now using the rotors i had drilled to 4 lug on my new 5 lug set up. no problems.
however, be prepared to be called crazy, some machinists will not want to be associated with drilling rotors.
darian “s13gg” has the rotors re-drilled on his car since hes using the Z32 setup and still has 4 lug rims
he can bury the speedo (thanks to the blitz tune) and he doesnt get any type of vibrations at high speeds what so ever and hasnt had to shim anything in order to solve any “balanacing” issues…
I myself plan on re-drilling my 5 bolt stuff to 4 bolt but have a cnc indexing head on a drill press so its pretty easy to ensure I get a perfect bolt pattern 
PM Varun (slipperysilvia) he can hook you up
Not that hard , we done it at home 2 years ago , car is till on the road , no issue at all . We just lined up the S13 rotor in the 300zx and redrilled it .
We bought a proper size bit from CT and done the job.
Never had an issue with cracking or balancing .
We had a total of 5 rotor conversion and all these car as still on the road without any braking issues .
Just make sure you use 1 of the original holes as a reference.
I am not asking you to do it the way we done it and I would agree that a machine shop is the best way to deal with these issues but redrilling is very easy and never gave us any issues .
the one issue I did take into consideration is that with 8 holes (1 common) the space between 2 holes (in particular) will be 3/16" of an inch,
So when you do this, drill the holes so that the one hole with such a small wall (3/16) will only be stressed when the rotor is spinning in reverse, an minor consideration, but my tool/die/CNC buddy did this for me and pointed that out, I have left/right rotors now dues to this…
i did it with a hand drill
yes im a gangstah
its been fine for a year