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The Q50 forums are full of stance bros who lease and have never changed a brake pad in their lives (save for one or two), and since mine is a sport package and I used to drive a Z, I decided to pop in here since the question I ask is directly related to Z brake parts.

My car is a DD and part time TOTD cruiser. I recently ordered a StopTech combo from RockAuto that had slotted StopTech rotors and StopTech "Street Performance" pads. Combined with a set of SS lines and Motul RBF600, I think this is a reasonable setup, but I remembered the Nismo brake pads for the Akebono were out there and I remember those being a good upgrade from the OEM pads.

Should I sell the pads new in box and procure some of the Nismo pads? Is there something else I should look at harder?

I also looked at running a more aggressive pad in the rear only since this Infiniti has Active Trace Control (which is Infiniti's lame replacement for a mechanical LSD) and it cooks rear brakes faster than VDC does in the 370Zs.

Let me know your thoughts, ladies and gents!
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I wouldn't recommend aggressive rear pads, under heavy braking while turning your rear end will spun
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The Q50 forums are full of stance bros who lease and have never changed a brake pad in their lives (save for one or two), and since mine is a sport package and I used to drive a Z, I decided to pop in here since the question I ask is directly related to Z brake parts.

My car is a DD and part time TOTD cruiser. I recently ordered a StopTech combo from RockAuto that had slotted StopTech rotors and StopTech "Street Performance" pads. Combined with a set of SS lines and Motul RBF600, I think this is a reasonable setup, but I remembered the Nismo brake pads for the Akebono were out there and I remember those being a good upgrade from the OEM pads.

Should I sell the pads new in box and procure some of the Nismo pads? Is there something else I should look at harder?

I also looked at running a more aggressive pad in the rear only since this Infiniti has Active Trace Control (which is Infiniti's lame replacement for a mechanical LSD) and it cooks rear brakes faster than VDC does in the 370Zs.

Let me know your thoughts, ladies and gents!
Nismo Pads are good but I think they are overpriced. I think your list is good as is and it's not worth the effort of selling stuff you just bought. I think RBF 600 is a bit overkill for DD, it has the property of sucking up moisture in the air rather quickly, so over time may be less effective then more normal fluids. But it's not that big of a deal.

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Yeah, we have some of those stance guys show up here from time to time. LOL they normally don't last long. I would stick with what you got. If you don't like it you can always change it up later.
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Nismo Pads are good but I think they are overpriced. I think your list is good as is and it's not worth the effort of selling stuff you just bought. I think RBF 600 is a bit overkill for DD, it has the property of sucking up moisture in the air rather quickly, so over time may be less effective then more normal fluids. But it's not that big of a deal.

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Given the humidity that saturates the air quite often in north alabama, I might roll back to their 5.1 fluid then. The summers here offer the neat feature of walking outside into a protective coating of air-sweat.

I managed not to cook the stock setup at the dragon, so I should be fine.
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Yeah, we have some of those stance guys show up here from time to time. LOL they normally don't last long. I would stick with what you got. If you don't like it you can always change it up later.
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I wouldn't recommend aggressive rear pads, under heavy braking while turning your rear end will spun
Not sure I understand you mean... with or without the eye roll.
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Not sure I understand you mean... with or without the eye roll.
I think what he means is on a 370z if you put more aggressive rear brakes. The result is the rear will lockup much quicker then the front will and in a turn loss of rear traction will cause the tail to spin out. While our cars are very similar they are different and maybe more aggressive may work, maybe it won't.
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I think what he means is on a 370z if you put more aggressive rear brakes. The result is the rear will lockup much quicker then the front will and in a turn loss of rear traction will cause the tail to spin out. While our cars are very similar they are different and maybe more aggressive may work, maybe it won't.
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I think what he means is on a 370z if you put more aggressive rear brakes. The result is the rear will lockup much quicker then the front will and in a turn loss of rear traction will cause the tail to spin out. While our cars are very similar they are different and maybe more aggressive may work, maybe it won't.
Exactly, maybe I misused the smiley, and I suspect it will have the same issue as most of the weight is in front, I may be wrong here but this is something I experienced personally.
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You can get the Nismo pads fairly inexpensively if you search. Other than the outright stopping power, the best thing about them is how linear they are. Just super controllable and it's easy to walk right up to the ABS threshold.
https://www.nissanautosports.com/nis...s-803-prd1.htm

Edit: I'm running Motul 5.1 as it's designed to work with ABS and I'm street only.
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