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Mazda RX7 series 5 year model?
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Thu, 11 March 2004 11:43
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Yeah I know its not exactly a Toyota but meh.
SO anyway I am in need of some brake pads for some Mazda RX7 series 5 Calipers. But I think I'm going to need a yeah model but I have no idea about Mazda's at all. So does anyone know what year model series 5's are, or alternatively can anyone supply a part number for some pads?
Is there anywhere on the WWW when you can look at brake pad cattledogs?
Thanks
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Re: Mazda RX7 series 5 year model?
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Thu, 11 March 2004 11:48
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1989
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Re: Mazda RX7 series 5 year model?
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Thu, 11 March 2004 11:49
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Ok the bendix cattledog just started working again. The latest model RX7 they have listed is 1989-99 so i'm guessing these will suit the series 5 calipers? And whats a good type od pad for street work?
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Re: Mazda RX7 series 5 year model?
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Thu, 11 March 2004 11:51
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series 5 is 1989 - ???? (1993 i think)
thats all i know
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Re: Mazda RX7 series 5 year model?
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Thu, 11 March 2004 11:52
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i use eagles or hawks (one of they two i cant remember which it is)
think its hawks pads on my car, they work really well but generate lots of dust. have good pedal feel and bite in well.
mines a series 4 but as far as i know there is very little/no difference between calipers
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Re: Mazda RX7 series 5 year model?
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Thu, 11 March 2004 11:55
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Ok thanks.
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Thu, 11 March 2004 12:00
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(what i just said was in comparison to the standard mazda pads which i had on before i changed across, as long as u dont mind brake dust i strongly reccomend them)
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Re: Mazda RX7 series 5 year model?
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Thu, 11 March 2004 12:02
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series 5 is 1989 threw to 1992
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Re: Mazda RX7 series 5 year model?
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Thu, 11 March 2004 12:03
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Ok thanks. The pads must be the same all the way through to the 99 model.
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Re: Mazda RX7 series 5 year model?
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Thu, 11 March 2004 12:13
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Hmm, according to the DBA page, series 4 is 86 to 92. 
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Thu, 11 March 2004 20:50
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This could also mean that the pad is the same right through those years though the series changed (same caliper)
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Re: Mazda RX7 series 5 year model?
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Thu, 11 March 2004 21:44
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| Cool1 wrote on Thu, 11 March 2004 22:13 |
Hmm, according to the DBA page, series 4 is 86 to 92.
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thats what i was saying, theres no difference between series 4 and series 5 calipers
series 4 was 86 (or late 85) to 88 and series 5 was 88 to 92
i would be suprised if series 6,7,8 rx7's had the same calipers as the series 4/5, im pretty certain they are different, but i guess its possible they might still take the same size pad..
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Thu, 11 March 2004 22:07
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| lang wrote on Thu, 11 March 2004 22:22 |
i use eagles or hawks (one of they two i cant remember which it is)
think its hawks pads on my car, they work really well but generate lots of dust. have good pedal feel and bite in well.
mines a series 4 but as far as i know there is very little/no difference between calipers
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Mmmm Hawk brake pads are pretty damn good - I had the street/track compound on my 260z. If I could get them for the Supra I would have. Otherwise EBC Green stuff are good for the street.
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Re: Mazda RX7 series 5 year model?
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Fri, 12 March 2004 00:35
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I hope this may help:
86-89 - Series 4 - Model# FC 1031
89-91 - Series 5 - Model# FC 1032
92-99 - Series 6 - Model# FD 1031
From what I can remember (going back 7 years ago when I was racing Mazdas)
The FC1031 & FC1032 & FD1031 callipers are pretty much identical, same bolt pattern, pads (Bendix code DB416 - look it up if you want to see the diagram), piston sizes (4x36.1mm), positions, etc...
But the FD1031 (Series 6) SP are different...
One thing I noticed when the Series 4 first came out... I was playing around with some calipers & noticed that the bolt pattern of these actually matched my original TA-22 Celica strut, it wasn't a straight bolt up though as the positioning / offest didn't work... but I thought that was kinda neat... the only problem at the time was I had already modified the front suspension & was using modified struts mounted with adjustable coil-overs from another vehicle, & these didn't match the RX7 pattern at all.
Anyway, I hope this helps.
Cheers, 3T-GTE
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Re: Mazda RX7 series 5 year model?
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Fri, 12 March 2004 02:20
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I thought the Ser IV calipers were much smaller (and had some external finning), whilst the Ser V and VI were MUCH bigger and were a totally different shape and size ?
Just my experience from cct racing
Cheers
Michael B
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Re: Mazda RX7 series 5 year model?
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Fri, 12 March 2004 03:10
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Hi bbaacchhyy,
Yes, there are minor cosmetic differences like an extra fin here, or bit there, but I still found them to be essentially all the same.
Out of the 10 RX7s I have prepared for various customers, comparing 3 different customer's FC1031 (RX7 Series 4s) I worked on to the 7 customers with FC1032 (RX7 Series 5) the calipers had very little difference & were certainly not any bigger / better / stronger than the S4.
I can recall one time having to get a new right hand caliper to replace a badly damaged one off a S5, & we ended up looking into this & discovered that they were interchangeable.
The S6 calipers have a slightly different offset, but the bolt pattern, pads, etc is the same.
My memory is a bit rusty on this, as it was almost a decade ago, & I haven't worked on Mazdas for some time.. so please let me know if I am wrong, as I like to think I have a good memory 
I'm not sure about the S6 SP model though, I believe these are different, but not exactly easy to find, so I probably wouldn't be looking at them anyway.
Another thought, Cool 1... have you looked into any other calipers, like Wilwoods, etc? It has been a while since I looked into any of this, but last I looked they had some pretty good quality / priced calipers that would be as good or better than the Mazda calipers...
Might be worth a look:
http://www.wilwood.com/
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Fri, 12 March 2004 03:49
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Yeah I looked seriously into the Willwoods but the problem is I cannot get a definite answer weather they are street legal or not
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Fri, 12 March 2004 15:54
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Try here http://www.vsiimports.com.au/catalog.htm they import hawk stuff but have a listing by pad shape only unfortunately. May still find what you need.
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Fri, 12 March 2004 22:50
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Thanks
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