Editing S30/brakeupgrade (section)

=== Special thanks to: ===

Mike Young

Performance Toyota of Plano

1001 Preston Road

Plano TX

800-275-8696

The road is smooth, I'm doing about 65 with no one around me. I slam on my brakes as hard as I can; my body wants to fly through the windshield but my seatbelts do their job and hold me tightly to my Koenig seat. My 1973 240Z screams to a halt like a Formula One racer braking late into a hairpin corner. Wow! Looking in the rearview mirror, I notice no black streaks on the pavement from tire lockup. I quickly stomp on the accelerator and change up through the gears to do it all over again!

Why would someone punish their Z-car like this? How can MY Z-car have braking power like that? Who's the weird guy trying to give himself whiplash? You might be asking yourself one or more of these questions, and in the following paragraphs, you'll find the answer to the first two, I think you can figure out the answer to the third!

If you drive like I do, then you probably wish your Z had better braking capabilities! It seems that the brakes of early Z-cars were only designed for basic day to day driving, and not with the true performance enthusiast in mind. One way to increase your stopping power is to replace your Z's front calipers with four-piston calipers like those found on a Toyota 4WD truck. These calipers are basically a bolt-on modification. "Why do they fit so easily?? you might ask. These calipers we remanufactured by the same company, Sumitomo, and as luck would have it, used the same mounting location. The job is very simple; it consists of removing the old calipers, and replacing them with the new ones. That's it. Well, maybe a little more, but as you are about to find out, this is a very easy upgrade to your brakes that will gain impressive results!