First Track Day Experience

Originally Posted by DarkJak

Congrats! It's a fun and rewarding journey.

Definitely a ton of options on brakes going from pads to rotors to full on brake kits.
With the base brakes, you'll have trouble finding a lot of off the shelf rotor kits, so I'd recommend at least going with someone's takeoff Akebonos. They give the biggest bump in performance over base brakes for the money. A lot of people have no problems tracking with the Akebonos and upgraded pads, fluid, and ducts.

If you outgrow those, I'd recommend considering the kit I've put together. I certainly wish I made that jump years earlier because I would've saved a ton of headache and money trying to make the Akebonos work for me. The heat shedding with the AP racing rotors is truly next level, as are the consistency and pad support of the calipers.

We don't get much airflow in the wheelwell, or any sort of ducting stock, direct or not, so any ducting kit will lower average brake temps considerably as well.
We now have Z1's 2.5 inch ducting kit, which are a nice jump in airflow over Stillen's 2 inch duct kit, though they require figuring out a front duct at the bumper.

Originally Posted by HapaZ

Thanks for all of the information and when I’m ready I’ll be going with your kit. Your website blog entry was very helpful, btw!

In the meantime I’d like to squeeze one more track day in before the end of the year. Has anyone tried a ducting kit on the base brakes? I’m wondering if that might tide me over until I’ve got the money for the AP kit.

Originally Posted by Alto101

I am looking at the Z1 kit for my 2017 Q60 (very similar) for next year and am trying to figure out how the front ducting works. If anyone has done this and has feedback on the 370Z, I would love to read it.