That would be more expensive than just doing the S13 conversion. I got my brakes with almost new pads for $20. and the adapters only cost me $30. You could likely get a decent price if you sold the struts you have now. So it would be at least cost nuetral, you might even come out of it with some beer money at the end!

Hmmm,perhaps i need to start an importing business from Australias eastern island dealing in imported bits.
You can,t walk through any wreckers front door in Qld. without spending $20.00 on the smallest of bits.

A mate can get me coilover kit with springs any size etc, for $200, gettin all 180sx brakes for nothin, guess i am now just chasin some standard hubs and struts. oh and i scored some 180 adjustable pillowball cusco strut tops. Think ill use them too.

im with dattodude, 120y brakes feel very unsafe
drove my mates stock 2 speed auto ke30 a while ago with all new stock brakes on it(stock brakes that are bigger than 120y ones) and man did that feel unsafe
campare that to brakes that are on say a new honda jazz or something, they are still small but the whole system is designed a heap better so the car actually stops when you want it to

im also not a fan of stock struts after having one sitting around without a hub on it....have you seen the size of the stock stub axles

you talk about brakes....check this out, woohoo





tell me if im wrong...those rotor's spinning the wrong way

Yeh, There pretty big!!

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Having driven a coupe with stock PBR 120y brakes for a long time I have to also agree... Yes they are an improvement over the stock 1200, and yes they compete well with other stock brakes of the era, but even my wife's new Kia Rio has enormous brakes by comparison, and way more stopping power. To put it into perspective, my '88 e30 has similar braking performance to the Rio, and in it's day it was a $70k car?!

(obviously in raw performance & handling stakes, the e30 runs rings around the Rio but not in the brakes department)

Modern braking systems certainly have the goods, and I would think that with the simplicity of the S13 swap it's a bit of a no brainer. If you can find rims to fit the set up you already have, as others have said, I would think of it as an adequate braking system for a daily driver rather than a 'huge' system.

yeh after all the sugestions, Obviously everyone thinks there not to big. I thought they were a massive overkill, but clearly not. I dont particulary want to run different wheels front to rear, but then if i do s13/180 brakes on standard struts i have the small stub axle issue as pigdog explained. Or if i leave it, my rims are out a bit. Guess i could always throw a heap of camber in the mix to pull the top of the tyres inside the gaurds like my mates ae86 lol.
Will keep you all posted and ill put some pics up as i go too.

What motor are you running? The spindley wee 1200 stub axles will be just fine and dandy if you're only runing an A series.

planin on a a14 or 15 with some go fast goodies lol