I've been running a Brembo 4 piston front setup for awhile, but decided to go with a 6 piston setup. My hope is to get out to a track once or twice a year, since the G35 is no longer a daily driver.


A mockup of the bracket. I'm running a custom rotor size using the existing 2 piece floating rotor that I had before, so I had to design my own bracket. The calipers are from the G37/370z kit, and you can buy the calipers by themselves from a few online vendors. I got mine from amplified motorsports.


Brackets arrived today, 3 weeks earlier than expected. I guess emachineshop isn't super busy these days.


Old vs new.


This caliper is 13" long.


While everything was off the car, I sent the rear calipers for powdercoating. I had painted them red with G2 paint, but I wanted something professional this time.




The rears were rebuilt with stoptech seals.


Comparison of the brake pad sizes.


Bought some titanium brake shims. 1mm for the fronts, 0.5mm for the rears.


Also bought titanium bleed screws, and then threw them on the stove. They should resist rust better than the stock screws.




I was expecting to need some shims to space things correctly, but everything lined up exactly.


Also replaced the rear rotor wear section of the two piece stoptech rotors.

 

looks awesome bro

 

Niiice. Where'd you get those powdercoated in Socal?


Also, do you have full body shots of your G? What finish is that on your Volk TE37's?

 

Nice. What a difference.

 

wow, setup look's great!!! surprised you didn't try and fab something up to run ur old 4pistons on the rear.

 

Albert looks great. Looking forward to your impressions once you get them out on the track.

 

Your car was the original inspiration for my AB. It was so simple yet one of the best looking G's on this site. New Brembo upgrade looks awesome.

 

I sent them to Texas to get powdercoated at this company:
http://www.tiradocustomcoatings.com/

It was $145 for the two rears. It's one layer of a red and one layer of a clear powdercoat. I'll get new pics of the entire car hopefully in less than a week. I still need to install the brakes on the front passenger side, and then clean up the car. The Volks are mercury silver.

I need to try and keep the brake bias in check, so running the old 4 pistons on the rear won't work.

Thanks for all the feedback. I also have titanium (real titanium) lug nuts coming in the mail. I plan to burn those on the stove as well.

 

Albert we really need to do a photoshoot to show off these brakes. We also need to capture your headlights and taillights, the sickest on any G!

 

damn you should put this in that new thread "what have you done/made today" .. what made you choose that company? seems a lil high for powdercoat

 

Marcus, that sounds like a great idea. I'm going to try and make it to the Riverside Infiniti meet, we can talk more there.

The $145 or so also included having one caliper disassembled by a machine shop because some of the bolt heads were stripped (I tried to disassemble them, and gave up after two tries on that caliper). The other caliper came apart more easily, though I still had to put my body weight on the wrench.

I saw this thread with a google search, and I liked the finish in the pics.
http://highboostforum.com/forum/show...powder-coating

 

That is a fresh setup, really curious to see how the brake bias is going to work out for you.

 

I should be ok. Keep in mind that the number of pistons doesn't tell you about the brake bias. It's the piston sizes (piston area) and rotor size. My rear setup is essentially stock brembo setup for our cars in that regard. The piston area on the front is very close to the 14" BBK setup from a well known company known for their "balanced" brake setup.

I installed both fronts finally. I still need to get some air out of the calipers. Looks like bleeding the front brakes is a bit more work with calipers like this, and I'll need to bleed them while holding them exactly vertical.

 

Alebrt they look great man.. looking forward to seeing them in person.

 

Thanks, Juan. I hadn't signed up for the Riverside meet, since the initial estimated date for completion of the brackets was 9/20. But I should be able to make it now.