Topic: Brake system "upgrades" end in spectacular failure
Well I'm at a loss. Our car, a cherry '94 Nissan Sentra XE, which was purchased fully functional is now less so. Taking the advice of several tuner forums, I took a functional brake system and upgraded to SS lines, front calipers and rotors from an NX2000. The lines where flushed and bled and it seemed we had good pedal pressure. It being late, we left the test drive for the next day. What we found the next morning was a pedal that went to the floor. We bled things again without any improvement. So we replaced the master cylinder off a parts car, along with a brake booster from the same car. No luck. And we just can't get any improvement.
Now, it was really late the first time we bled things, so I wouldn't swear that we had a firm pedal. I'm starting to wonder if this system won't handle the larger calipers? Maybe we need a larger master cylinder? Maybe I'm overlooking something else?
Appreciate any suggestions, because I'm thinking I may have to just burn the car and find another lemon.
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