The Brakes Thread

[Hurricane]

@Lith

If you are talking specifically about the stock 240sx brakes, then I will have to disagree. Stock brakes on 240’s are garbage even with good pads and rotors. I actually got brand new pads and rotors when I bought the car and they still were pretty scary on the highway… all I had to do is brake hard couple of times and the brakes would have been almost gone… not to mention that most people have rusted calipers which are seized half the time on pretty much any 240.

Point is, upgrade those calipers on the 240. Don’t be cheap and just buy pads and rotors. Cheapest (by far) are the z32 front brakes with conversion lines. Pads for these are cheap and so are the rotors. There’s no reason why people shouldn’t buy them. I mean, they spend god knows how much getting rebuilt calipers, new pads, new rotors and so on… if you add another couple of hundred you can have much better brakes.
Keep in mind, those front z32 calipers came stock on S14 (K’s) Silvias. Just that alone should be convincing enough.

Not matter what pads / rotors you put on 15 year old brakes fluid is 15 year old brake fluid. If you fully flushed the system with new brake fluid I’m confident you would not have experianced fade street driving.

Did you know its recommended to change the stock (DOT 3) brake fluid ANNUALLY! I don’t know many people who do that, and the ones I know who do never experiance brake fad on the street with a stock setup. The most overlooked part of brake upgrades is the fluid.

Coles notes* Change your fluids annually or semi annually its not water and it will lose some properties after a while.