Your best bet would be to use an adjustable proportioning valve so you can dial it in to your car...I'm pretty sure Wilwood still makes them, although there's probably quite a few companies out there that do...

 

No.

NOT using a proportioning valve will screw up the braking.

 

^ +1

 

Technically your both right. You can still have problems with an adjustable proportioning valve if it isn't set right.

Too much rear braking and you get oversteer (the rear end slides all over the place).

Too little rear braking and it takes your longer to stop.

Although if you want to be able to make the brakes handle well a proportional valve would be the best way. Another way is to leave a little air in the rear brake lines, but I'm sure that noone would actually suggest you do that.

 

Well, it's kind of a given that something won't work correctly if it's at the wrong settings.....

 

I was thinking more that using calipers from the front would be a bad idea in general, and using a valve would just be asking for trouble, it'd be a band-aid as it were.

 

The same could probably be thought by some when it comes to using Evo Brembos on an Eclipse but they work great. The key is that if he used from calipers in the back, he'd have to use calipers up front that have a porportionally greater clamping force.

 

It's really not a band-aid. It's more like using the original part that should be used for the setup that you're changing to (does that make any sense?).

 

you wouldn't be able to use front calipers for a rear disc setup anyway, since rears are designed differently with respect to the piston. the piston and chamber have a thread on them so that it rotates as it goes in/out. this is for the handbrake cable to work properly.

i have a rear disc setup sitting in the garage. bought it from some guy who go it from RPW. the rotors are lancer fronts, but the calipers/carriers came from something else. in fact the caliper carriers don't fit right (too small) so i have to either have a set made or find a setup that works.

a friend of mine drives a sentra se-r spec-v and that has rear discs with same bolt pattern (4x114.3) as an oz, so i have been thinking about grabbing the se-r setup and seeing how that works with the lancer.

 

Are there any different / better calipers that we could use on the front? Better calipers on the front could make stock front calipers on the rear more possible.

 

This has already been posted IN THIS THREAD. READ.

RPW

Wilwood

 

I meant stock replacement calipers, like ones that still fit inside of a stock OZ wheel and maybe have more clamping force or better cooling. Don't you have to have at least 16" wheels for those "big brake" kits?

 

Yeah those big break kits don't fit stock wheels I'm sure. What other 4 lug car out there has rear disc break?...

 

To my knowledge, there's nothing else available.
I believe you're right about needing 17s, but you'd have to do some research.

 

if you read my post a few up you would see that the sentra has rear discs AND 114.3 pattern