Rear Disc Brakes

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The stock rear brakes are fairly good, a large (for such a light car) 8" x 1.75 brake shoe. Make sure the brakes and clean and adjusted correctly. Using a performance pad will improve it.

But for coolness sake... read on.

H145

Pitroad Kit

Pitroad rear disc adapters for B110

• Uses late model S130 (280ZX) caliper and rotor (I think it says it uses Skyline HR30 adapters)

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Andy: The Pitroad rear disk brake kit only includes the brackets, E-brake cables, axle sleeve thingys, clips, rubber brake hoses, and axle bolts. You supply the calipers, pads, and rotors from an 82-83 280ZX, as well as new oil seals for the axles, wheel bearings, etc. It's pretty straight forward, you have to pull off the old drum brake assemblies and put on their new bracket just before you put the new wheel bearings in. You do have to drill two really small holes on the E brake cable holder, but other than that it's really easy.

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In general, 1982 280ZX and 300ZX has a smaller rear caliper with larger pads than the early (1979-1981) 280ZX. The offset of the early vs. late caliper is quite different.

AE86

Factory Disc Adapters

910

910 Sedan (810/Maxima/Bluebird) use a conversion plate to bolt a rotor to drum-brake-spec hub. These can be useful in a swap.

44155-N3202 ADAPTER-CALIPER 44165
* yoke type/double piston (wide caliper bolt pattern)
* USA 910 1981 (0780-0681) Sedan 
* JPN F30 8009-8208 L28E
          8009-8107 L20E#

44155-04S10 ADAPTER-CALIPER
* single piston type (narrow caliper bolt pattern)
* USA 910 1982-1984 (0781-) Sedan
* JPN C31 8111- GX#+K.L20.MD
* JPN F30 8108- L20E#
* JPN R30 8108-8108 L20ET

Fits H165 and H190 rear axle assemblies.

Compare various methods of use: Z Home

H165

H165 diff, including 1200 utes

Sentra Rotors

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Disc Over Drum

You can do a conversion to a H165 ute diff with a TRX bluebird disc rear or R31 skyline/pintara disc rear setup.

Find an Aussie Bluebird with rear discs and just swap everything over. This uses the drum shoes as an emergency brake.

"Disc Over Drum" -- easy conversion for H165 or H190 diffs!

Rear Axle Swaps

See Rear Axle Swaps

These include rear disc brakes:

• Complete rear end off a Toyoda with disk brakes (Corolla AE86)
• Complete rear end from a Mazda RX7 GSL-SE
• Complete rear end from a 1980 to 1981 S110 (Silvia, 200SX) H165
• Complete rear end from a 1982 to 1983 S110 H190

200SX either narrow the housing or use fender flares.

Toyoda...cheaper LSD from TRD.

Mad Dat Kit

Mad Dat sells a narrowed Nissan rear axle assembly with disc brakes. Shortened R31 28 spline unit.