Alright so time for another update.
So it was around Christmas now and I was still waiting for my heat sleeve to arrive. Having nothing to work on and waiting on parts to arrive, I always find myself strolling online temping myself at buying new items.
One day when looking at our local 240 Facebook group I noticed a relatively cheap priced 2-way pop up for sale. I had borrowed Liam's welded last year to do the drift day (the one when my motor broke), and knew that I'd need something to replace it when I gave it back to him. I've always wanted to go with a two way rather than a welded and I wanted to change up my final drive ratio. My current VLSD has a 4.3 final drive. Although its great for acceleration, I hate driving it on the highway. Having a 2 hour drive to the track buzzing almost 4k just to keep up with traffic was not fun. This new diff has a stock ratio of 4.08 I believe.
I picked that up and have to install it once it gets a bit warmer outside (currently -6 Celsius, 21* F for you Americans) so I can crawl under the car.
Telling myself not to buy more parts hasn't really worked. (I'm not very convincing lol)
I always wanted R34/350z Brembos and that was the plan this winter before the motor went. Unfortunately, its unrealistic for me to spend that much on brakes so I decided to go with z32/R32 brakes instead.
A friend of mine was changing his car setup for drag racing and his Z brakes didn't clear his whiles. However my 180sx ones did. So I bought his front brakes and he took mine. They're r32 GTS 30mm aluminum calipers. Same as z32.
I knew I wouldn't be happy installing them on my car in the conition they were in so I decided to sand them and give them a shot of caliper paint. I opted to go with VHT Gold caliper paint after seeing it on a few cars on here... I know they're not Brembos
First Coat after primer
A few coats later, left to dry for a week before I could spray the clear coat (As per the can lol).
For some reason the Nissan logo on one of them was heavily scored. No idea why. I sanded off the paint on the lettering before spraying the clear so the letters can be nicely sealed.
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Cleared them a week later. They turned out pretty nice!
Now that the fronts were all ready I needed to figure out what to do with the rear. I always told myself that I didnt want to go through the hassle of changing the rear setup to z32 with the ebrake, but I also didn't like the idea of non matching brakes front to rear and the look of stock 240 rear brakes are awful.
Lucky enough I found a guy parting out an R32 GTR and scored the rear setup pretty cheap.
Those were painted gold to match the front as well. I cleaned the Nissan logo and clear coated over it all just like the fronts, but I don't have a pic of that for some reason.
The only thing holding me back to install them was that I needed a drivers side front wheel bearing. I picked one up and had a friend of mine press it into my conversion hub. I also picked up some new slotted rotors and pads since a local shop had them on sale. I opted for the zink coated rotors that were electromagnetically coated black. (The special offered them at 2$ more so I said why not!) The rotors look weird to me all black but the black will be scrubbed off the first time the pads squeeze them. It will leave the hub section black and thats the part that I like.
Old 180sx vs new z32
I installed them along with my new bearing this past weekend.
The fronts looked pretty cool on the car. It'll look much better once the rotor is clean silver tho. Like I mentioned earlier the rears will be installed once the weather warms up. At the same time I will swap the 2 way in with the car being in the air.
Major update coming next stay tuned!
Thanks,
Joe.