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time night Posted: 08/8/09 11:23 PM unknown
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Quick recap, this is a selected parts list to make my celica have big brakes. The list includes brackets for adapting Z32 Turbo calipers, to clear 350Z Track rotors (12.75"), that mount up to Z31 turbo hubs.
First I want to thank Darin (a member on Celica-GTS.com) for doing the research before hand. Cuz well it is an awesome bang for the buck.

Ok to the first attempt at installing them with the XXR 002s. Probably Darin mentioned this, but some how I missed it. For at least with these wheels since the spokes lay pretty flat to the hub it hits the Caliper, so at the moment I need to get some spacers (probably about 1/2 inch). I do like the way they look with the 16" wheels though since they run super close to the rim and rotor just fills up entire wheel, looks nice and pro.

Another setback is one of the calipers I ordered from rock auto does not have the correct pin/bolt length for keeping the pads in place. They're about 1/4" too short to allow the wire to slip through the whole to keep things in place. Here is the pic of the caliper that came with proper hardware.


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and yes I do know I have the pins on backwards tongue.gif I'll fix that later.

And I weighed the rotor and calipers. I'll weigh the hub also.

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I love how the rotor out weighs the stock rotor AND hub, lol.

I still need to get longer studs for the hubs though. But if anyone is curious if this stuff bolts up properly, well it does tongue.gif

Oh yea, here are the metal master pads
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Sorry I didn't take pics of the hardware test fitted, my hands were waaay too covered in grease to touch my phone... I'll for sure take new pics when I get the rest of the stuff to finish it.
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time morning Posted: 08/11/09 3:13 AM unknown
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Well looks like I made a small mistake in getting the later year Z32 turbo calipers which are iron instead of aluminum. Which I guess isn't so bad since I hear that Nissan switched to iron for better heat absorption. Tomorrow (I guess today) I'll be picking up 1/2" spacers for the wheels.

Here is a pic of test fitting the hardware so I can see how thick the spacer needs to be.

http://www.truestreets.com/index.cfm/do/api.gallery.view/id/08F6542A%2D3048%2D5F25%2D7C2A060C3730655D/file/img253%2Epng

I love how the rotors just fill up the wheels, it's a nice snug fit

Also seems like the rotors are painted on the inside, help with corrosion I guess.

http://www.truestreets.com/index.cfm/do/api.gallery.view/id/08F63BC0%2D3048%2D5F25%2D7C18D11926F4FB53/file/img252%2Epng

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time morning Posted: 08/21/09 3:50 AM unknown
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Got my spacers and hub centric rings for the wheels.






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And I finally put together the wiring documentation for getting started on the all the wiring crap for my car. Hopefully while I'm away this coming week the mechanic will take a look at it. I'm lucky I have some good friends with connections, basically got 13 documents that contained basically everything that deals with the wiring. I collated everything created a table of contents and title page, then neatly bounded it. It's 230 pages large, lol. The IS350's got a lot.






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