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Old 10-19-2002, 12:47 PM   #5
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</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (eamonj25 @ Oct. 18 2002,12:29)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I have been searching and I can not seem to understand why people only do the front conversion and not the back... the car is rear wheel drive, more power in back.... do you leave back stock or what?? And y z32 brakes y not brembo....</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
Braking has nothing to do with what wheels drive the car.

When you hit the brakes, weight shifts forward putting most of the load on the front tires. Say you've got 80% of the car's weight on the front under full brakeing, 20% on the back. If you have equal brakes front and rear, the rears would lockup...causing not only decreased brakeing performance (~30% less stopping power from the rear wheels in the event of a lockup actually) but it can also cause a spin.

Why z32 instead of brembo?
Often times people will use brembo rotors on their z32 swap but I assume you mean the brembo big brake upgrade.
A few reasons. 1) money 2) they are overkill 3) clearance (brembo require 17" rims, z32 requrie only 16")

Hope that clears it up for ya <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/thumbs-up.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':thumbsup:'>

PS: &nbsp;I think going to z32 is where you get bumped, brembo big brake upgrade wouldn't bump another class.



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