Night Pager rear upgrade info needed

[Supra Sam]

Hi All,

I know all about the Night pager front bracket\kit, as a matter of fact I have a replica and all the parts ready to go.

My question is in regards to the rear kits Night Pager offer.
I can't seem to find the answer to my question on their site, or on SM.


What caliper\rotor combo does the rear kit use?


Thanks
Sam

 

[twinturbozs]

You should just find a set of MKIV TT rear brakes. Enlarge the bolt holes, and they bolt right on. Unless you find a kit that allows you to used the MKIII bolts instead.

 

[Supra Sam]

Well thats what I was going to do, I was going to have the inserts made up for the bolt holes, so if need be I could always rivert back to standard brakes- didn't like the idea of hacking into the standard caliper bolt holes,

However sourcing the MK4 TT rear calipers is proving to be a costly excercise, and I'm thinking if the night pager kit uses a cheaper\more readily available caliper ie some sumitomo style ones, then that may be the way to go.

Note I will be having custom brackets made by a friend for free- so cost of brackets is not an issue.

 

[Poodles]

nope, nightpager is designed for MKIV rears

try sourcing the calipers through ckanderson in his vendor section, I think he mentioned something about them...

 

[Ckanderson]

The thing that kills me is the core charge...

the price without good cores is

250 for right (150 core charge)
and only
175 for left. (75 core charge)

Dont ask me why the core charges are different. This is for rebuilt calipers. Maybe try car-part.com?

 

[Supra Sam]

nope, nightpager is designed for MKIV rears

I don't quite follow.

So the rear night pager kit utilises a Supra 2 pot rear caliper, and Supra TT rear rotor? ...Does the night pager bracket eliminate the issue of not having %100 pad surface contact?

Are you sure the rear kit, isn't just MK4 rotors with a Nissan caliper?

Has anyone ever seen or know of anyone with the rear Night pager kit?

 

[Supra Sam]

The thing that kills me is the core charge...

the price without good cores is

250 for right (150 core charge)
and only
175 for left. (75 core charge)

Dont ask me why the core charges are different. This is for rebuilt calipers. Maybe try car-part.com?

Thanks for the car-part url, I'll check them out now.


Sam

 

[Supra Sam]

Bump ..

 

[Supra Sam]

ok found the answer I need.

The rears use jza80 rotors, and r32/z32 2 pot rears, with a bracker and a spacer.

http://translate.google.com/transla...1&ct=result&prev=/search?q=night+pager+&hl=en

Hope this helps anyone else with the same question


Sam

 

[The Doc]

Thanks for sharing that Sam, you just solved the puzzle for me!

 

[Bondango]

Thanks for sharing that Sam, you just solved the puzzle for me!

http://night-pager.com/English/night_pager_English.pdf

they do 3 kits :-

300zx calipers front and rear
jza80 Caipers (4 pots 17" wheel type UK and USDM)
LS400


If you go for the 300zx Kit, Dont use 300zx calipers, try and get a set of Brembo calipers from a skyline r32 or r33 GTR as these Bolt up.
For the Discs, dont use the mkiv TT ones, get a set of nissan 350z Discs (in the US you need track edition, in europe these were standard fitment on all 350z's). The reason being, you dont need to modify the hub to accept the Disc :naughty:

 

[turbogate]

If you are patient, you will find some good deals out there. I got my rear MKIV Calipers for $120 for both, with almost brand new Hawk HPS Pads includedlocally. Maybe I got very lucky, but I guess its posible. I was also lucky enough to get one of the remaining Gaslight kits which made the rear MKIV TT calipers/rotors a true bolt on affair. Parking brakes worked without even re-adjusting it. Its ashame he stop making them. But you should look around, post in the WTB forums etc.

 

[Supra Sam]

I got my rear MKIV Calipers for $120 for both, with almost brand new Hawk HPS Pads includedlocally. Maybe I got very lucky.

Your right, $120 for both calipers is a very lucky price.

I don't understand how the MK4 TT 4 pot fronts kit works? Everywhere I've searched people indicate that its pretty much impossible to install the JZA80 4 pots on our cars, without seriously affecting the suspension geometry.

I would love to put the Supra 4 pots on the front.
I'm actually making an adapter for the rear to mave the caliper down so there is 100 percent pad contact.

 

[Satan]

Talked with someone tonight at MemoryFab and they can still get these kits from Japan.

Can anyone tell me what the difference will be between the LS400 and the Nissan kit? Sounds like there's some modification required with the LS400 calipers, but either way, I would like to consider the kits (almost direct bolt-on) or have some brackets made.

They've got 'em for the fronts AND rears...

How hard would it be to have the brackets replicated?

 

[tsuper92]

ok found the answer I need.

The rears use jza80 rotors, and r32/z32 2 pot rears, with a bracker and a spacer.

http://translate.google.com/transla...esult&prev=/search%3Fq=night+pager+&hl=en

Hope this helps anyone else with the same question


Sam

the mkIV 2 pot caliper's are bigger then the r32 2 pot rear's.the piston is about 6mm bigger.give me your e-mail addy and i can send you a pic of the kit to mount the mkIV caliper's.the kit come's with offset spacer's that will bring the caliper down on the rotor for more contact patch.i also have r32 rear's which are wimpy looking compared to the mkIV's

 

[BorHor]

Talked with someone tonight at MemoryFab and they can still get these kits from Japan.

Can anyone tell me what the difference will be between the LS400 and the Nissan kit? Sounds like there's some modification required with the LS400 calipers, but either way, I would like to consider the kits (almost direct bolt-on) or have some brackets made.

They've got 'em for the fronts AND rears...

How hard would it be to have the brackets replicated?

MemoryFab FTW! I know the owner. He is the sickness. The warehouse is basically local to me.

 

[Satan]

the mkIV 2 pot caliper's are bigger then the r32 2 pot rear's.the piston is about 6mm bigger.give me your e-mail addy and i can send you a pic of the kit to mount the mkIV caliper's.the kit come's with offset spacer's that will bring the caliper down on the rotor for more contact patch.i also have r32 rear's which are wimpy looking compared to the mkIV's

g099521@yahoo.com.....

Lots of close-up will be good. I am also trying to figure out more of this bracket issue. I wouldn't even mind getting some Brembo calipers, but the mystery around the adapter bracket is my issue. Hell, I'd even have a few sets produced, if it was worthwhile.

The difference between the LS400 calipers and the Nissan ones are also kinda confusing, since I would assume that the LS400 wouldn't need any custom lines or anything like that.

 

[Andre]

Mk4 tt calipers

This is not my car butt a friends car here in holland

Mk4 rotors and calipers on a mk3

 

[Satan]

Adapter needed?

 

[Andre]

No modified the hub are something like that

Butt no adaptors are brackets