N14 ga16de pulsar brake upgrade pictures (ad18v)

Righteo here is the lucky new project!

First, remove the old calipers and discs.

Remeber to crimp the brake lines and take the hose off before you remove the caliper - makes it much easier when the caliper isnt moving around.

Wobble the disc to get it off.

Next, test fit your new rotors.

Why? Because you can and they look pretty.

The box which contained the pretty stuff.

Notice the wheel studs holding the disc on? Handy trick for when you first test fit the new calipers.

We didn't test fit with the pads installed. We just neglected to take a picture of the test fitting stage.

Now the tricky part. When we installed the new calipers we found (as we suspected) the caliper wasnt lined up proeprly over the rotor.

WE decided to head down to the local bolt store and bought a variety of washers. Stainless steel and high tensile examples which ranges from 1.4mm in thickness to 1.91mm in thickness (measured using digital vernier calipers).

We tried out the 1.91mm stainless washers and low and behold - perfect!

Yay! NEw pads installed and calipers bolted onto the hub! HYdraulic lines bolted back into place. All read to go for a brake bleed!

Which is the fun part btw... Pain in the bum to do but its gotta happen. We were going to flush the whole system but we were running out of time. THe old fluid didnt seem too bad anyway. Follow the haynes manual and you should be OK here.

If you kept the brake lines crimped up the front you really should only have to bleed the front brakes according to the haynes but you may as well be safe rather than sorry.

It really is quite a simple upgrade and great to do if your original rotors and pads are in need of replacement.

Brake pads for the micra's original brakes are getting hard to find in australia and they're oh so expensive. Decent pads for the N14 are much more common - and not to mention a much larger range when it comes to pad type and grade.

This upgrade took from about 2:30pm to 6:30pm at night. That inlcuded 30 min of stuffing around at the local bolt place and plenty of procrastinating with the brake bleeding.

Chris reports that his brakes are strong and work very well.

Just looking at the pictures it looks like a 1.7mm thick washer is what we really needed. But unfortunately we didnt have something which could shave .2mm off a washer so it was either have it out too far or in too far.

And i think it was a 1.9mm thick washer we used. Can't remember lol.

Total cost?

They look awfully new and pricey :|

Should have added a step to paint the rotor hub! Might rust up and look icky!

yeah, should have. the rotors were about 140 dollars new from repco. calipers were 45 dollars the pair. washers were about 30 cents each, 2 bottles of dot 4 brake fluid about 15-20 dollars, bendix advance brake pads about 80 dollars, grin on your face when conversion is finished...... PRICELESS!

Can I ask why you used the DBA628 disks instead of the DBA900 disks and why did you decide to not use slotted disks?

I believe the main considerations were 1) Cost 2) Chances of ever using these brakes to their full potential.

This was meant to be chris's 'sensible' car.

I'm at a loss to understand what those washers are needed for. Did something rub or touch with the claipers just bolted on?
The pads float on the slides & will normally self centre...?

Or did the slides run out of travel? Looks to me like you've just tryed to centre the frame over the rotor for some asthetic reason?

How much do Micra pads cost in Australia?
K11 Micras weren't ever sold new here & pads are easy to find, I think NZ$48 from Repco & probably cheaper elsewhere.

I should have taken a picture of them installed without the spacers so you could see why.

Keep in mind its very different for your K11 because the Jap made k11's have different hub to uk K11.

Just noticed your second reply, yes the slides had run out of movement.

hey guys can anyone tell me what pad part #s are for the pads for this particular upgrade.
ive got some new pads which are apparently for the N14 GA16DE but they are completely different to whats in there. the best i can get off the pad is a bendix part # DB1xxx which narrows it down to about 6 different pads...

cheers gents

you want the 2.0L pintara that was imported....