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Ok I was changing my brake pads in my s1 r33 non turbo and I find out that my front brakes are actually from a maxima any reason why someone would put them on a skyline???

Also I was having a really bad power lose going over bumps (or when shutting car door lol) find out that it's one of the ecu wires have been cut and join back together with 2 pieces of wire any reason why someone would cut the wire in the first place???

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Jonesy-r33 Apprentice

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Ok I was changing my brake pads in my s1 r33 non turbo and I find out that my front brakes are actually from a maxima any reason why someone would put them on a skyline???

Also I was having a really bad power lose going over bumps (or when shutting car door lol) find out that it's one of the ecu wires have been cut and join back together with 2 pieces of wire any reason why someone would cut the wire in the first place???

Thanks

is maxima brakes an upgrade or is it someone just being cheap???

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since the car is a non turbo i'd just assume that the front brakes just happen to be the same as those of a maxima, but i don't really know for sure.

as for the cut wire, i'd say they may have had something hooked up to the ecu that required the wire to be cut, or possibly they have cut the wire to disable the speed limiter. you'd need to work out which wire was cut to see what it could've been cut for.

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well when i went to buy new pads i took the old ones with me and check with 2 different stock brakes for the r33 and there was no way id get either into the caliper! 1 was more of a square shape and the other was the same but way too short while the maximas was long and thin (banana shaped). the calipers i have are 2 pistons i dont know about the r33 and if thats different

i was thinking it may of been a kill switch cause it everytime it would sound like it was struggling with fuel but im not sure.

and birds i ment when i was parked and i shut the door that it would stall lol :happy:

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do you happen to know the part number of the pads you got?

and i was just looking on the bendix website and the brake pad size between the twin piston maxima pads and the twin piston non turbo r33 pads is only very small. and both the maxima pads and the non turbo r33 pads are bigger than those of the turbo skylines because of the less powerful caliper.

here are pics of the maxima pad

DB1232_Inner_Outer.gif

the r33 non turbo pad

DB1165.gif

and the r33 turbo as well as r32, 33 and 34 gtr caliper (non brembo)

DB1170_Inner_Outer.gif

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For R34 non-turbo (excluding GT-V)

I'd imagine R33 non-turbo is the same - but best double check.

Front DB 1308 (same as Mitsubishi Triton ute, Nissan Maxima A32, A33)

Rear DB 1144 (same as Nissan Maxima)

Calipers between the maxima and skyline are different - but the pads are the same.

Maxima (front) seems to be larger single pot caliper - but the Skyline (non-turbo front) has 2 smaller twin pot caliper.

Rear calipers are the same.

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For R34 non-turbo (excluding GT-V)

I'd imagine R33 non-turbo is the same - but best double check.

Front DB 1308 (same as Mitsubishi Triton ute, Nissan Maxima A32, A33)

Rear DB 1144 (same as Nissan Maxima)

Calipers between the maxima and skyline are different - but the pads are the same.

Maxima (front) seems to be larger single pot caliper - but the Skyline (non-turbo front) has 2 smaller twin pot caliper.

Rear calipers are the same.

the j30 maxima run twin piston front calipers. it uses the DB1232 pads i posted the pic of.

and the bendix website (where i got those pics from) has the r33 non turbo listed as DB1165 pads. but the pads are that close in size and shape it doesn't matter too much

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