Are My Brakes Shonky!?

[Rydeit]

Hi everyone just bought an R-33 GT-R V-Spec Series 3 (1997). I just realised i have slotted brembos at the front and at the back standard nissan disks with nissan pads and non slotted rottors. Should i be worried?

Appreciate the help cheers.

[FineLine]

Hi everyone just bought an R-33 GT-R V-Spec Series 3 (1997). I just realised i have slotted brembos at the front and at the back standard nissan disks with nissan pads and non slotted rottors. Should i be worried?

Appreciate the help cheers.

No, Ran that combo for quite a while with no probs at all.

If you are going to track it I would reccomend a better pad and some decent brake fluid.

[Rydeit]

Would there be a reason why the previous owner has done this? Maybe if i take a photo it will help.

[Beer Baron]

hang on, do you mean your rear calipers are nissan branded? or is it just the rotors? rotor brand is not really important and slotted vs non slotted again not so important. nissan pads probably fine in the rear. it's quite common to see people upgrade front pads but not rears. post some pics of what you mean it may help sort this out.

[Rydeit]

Fronts

Rears

[Beer Baron]

ok, yes that is not right.

being an R33 GTR you should have brembo calipers front AND rear. someone along the line has taken/sold your nice rear brembo calipers and replaced them with cheap GTR/GTST sumitomo (nissan branded) calipers.

you're fronts look fine and there is nothing wrong with having slotted rotors front but not rear, but sadly you don't have the right model rear brakes on your car and rear brembo calipers and rotors are hard to get for R33 GTR. this is because many 33 and 34 GTR owners upgrade their front brakes but not the rears so not many rear sets are in circulation and those that are usually get snapped up by 32 GTR owners who have fitted front 33 GTR brembos and want matching rears.

Luckily there is not a huge difference between the rear 'nissan' brake set-up and the rear brembo set-up so it should not be causing any severe brake balance problems for you but it's definitely not right. if you bought this car from a dealer I'd be going down there and asking them to fit the proper brakes for the car. having 'downgraded' brakes on a car may actually be illegal.

nice wheels though. one of my favourites. I've had them on both my 32 and 33 GTR.

[Rydeit]

Cheers for the quick and detailed reply! I bought the car in a private sale not to long ago. Should i ring back the previous owner and see if he knows anything or should i not worry about it

[FineLine]

AH, I see what you mean, Yeah, someone has done a dodgey but it shouldnt affect the performance too much.

[FineLine]

darn double post

[Beer Baron]

you car is sadly lacking a few important Series 3 and v-spec features. for starters it's 100% not a v-spec. so it's missing attesa ETS pro, it's missing A-LSD (no loss in my eyes) and it's missing the v-spec suspension (which is a shame as it's good gear). you are also missing the series 3 front bumper and front lip which is one of the most obvious series 3 updates. do you have xenon lights or are they just halogens in the xenon housings? apart from all that you don't even have the STANDARD R33 GTR rear brakes, they have been downgraded to 33 GTST/32 GTR brakes which is a sign someone has been taking good bits off the car.

get it checked over thoroughly at a workshop and if you can I would try and get your money back. yes they are only small problems but go and price up how much it costs to buy a series 3 front bumper and lip ($$$$) or a set of rear brembos (also $$$), then price up stuff like series 3 xenon lights etc. it all adds up and mroe than that, the fact that these bits are missing is a sign that the car has been 'raided' for bits, or possibly in a decent accident. get a pro to look it over, but still my advice would be try and get the sale reversed and your money back, or at least some compensation for all the gear you are going to have to buy. not much point paying a premium for a "series 3, v-spec" if it has none of the v-spec parts and is missing key series 3 parts and even standard 33 GTR parts. might as well have bought a 1995 non-vspec and saved some money. at least it would have the rear brembos.

[blind_elk]

Was about to suggest it might not have been a V-Spec, but the previous owner has upgraded the fronts to Brembos.

Considering the majority of the braking is done at the front, I wouldn't be overly concerned about the setup you have.

[Miguelone]

Was about to suggest it might not have been a V-Spec, but the previous owner has upgraded the fronts to Brembos.

Considering the majority of the braking is done at the front, I wouldn't be overly concerned about the setup you have.

All 33 GTR's have Brembos front and rear, just the 32's have Sumitomos.

[Rydeit]

Sale is being reversed.