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Originally Posted by R240NA
Salvage yards have much better pricing, and rebuild kits are easy to get. For about $150 you can get all four calipers and pay the $8 or so for kits, that way you can paint/powdercoat while they're apart. If you must buy new, you can find unloaded calipers for as low as $70 each, loaded for maybe $100, but they come with cheap pads and all the anti-rattle hardware which is useless.
And for the record, it's a completely dick move to turn Schassis calipers in as cores, that's why the prices go up or calipers are out of stock because most rebuilders are sitting on a pile of 240 calipers and can't get the Z32 calipers to send out. Typical 240 owners being lowball, cheap bastards.
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I was told to do it by the guy at autozone. He said they will just rebuild the 240 calipers and sell them too.
Either way.. what does it matter. If you don't turn in any core than your not helping supply either. And when has there ever been a shortage of supply? And prices going up?? I haven't witnessed any of these things.
Also, I don't agree with the "anti-rattle hardware is useless" part. The pad shims made a big difference in how much noise my pads made. The anti-squeal pad lube did squat for me.
Personally, after having done the 300zx brakes with unloaded calipers, I would probably buy the loaded next time around just for the ease of installation. The unloaded calipers don't come with the pad pins, Pin clips, or the pad tension spring. And as I said before, I (and most the 300zx guys I read about) have success with quieting squeling pads by using the pad shims.