e39 rear calipers
 

do e39 rear brake calipers fit the e36 compact ?


Im after some buigger rear dia calipers, 38mm would be nice..

just saw another rear brake question. Our only choice is to upgrade our entire rear trailing arm/hub/rotor/caliper from a donor Z3m or z3m coupe

E34 rear brakes and carriers are a direct bolt on for the Ti rear. Larger piston than stock. Nice match up with a 325/328 Front vented setup. Bias stay balanced.

All assuming you are using good quality pads. :cool:

Wow. I've researched this quite a bit and found nothing about the 5/7 series rear swap till now.
Thank you so much for correcting my misinformation.
So this swap provides bigger pistons, and we can use the stock size rotor?

Yup. Running it now on my 97ti

Credit where credit is due, Ed at BimmerBum turned me on to this a few years ago. Ed's another great source of cool and practical things to do on our TI's. He has a website as well if you're needing BMW parts.

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i know ive seen some older 5 series in the junkyard. I'll have to see if any 525 or 530 have the rear calipers still. I know i saw an old 535

are there vented rotors that fit with these calipers or do we have to maintain the stock solids?

Just curious because they have rear vented rotors available for the e34 a 1990 535i on Rockauto..but it may be a typo?

This is the model i may be sourcing mine from.

I'm running the stock solids which is what I believe was on the E34 I pulled mine from. It would be interesting to see if the rear vented and it's calipers/carriers fit our cars.

Ed may know... :cool:

i have 2 e34 calipers, but one of them has the bleed nipple snapped off, and i put a torques bit into it and that snapped off, so i cant drill it out ! So i was now wonering if i could use a e39 caliper in a e34 carrier...

there arnt any n/s e34/32 calipers on ebay atm, they only seem to be o/s ones!

btw some of my friends are using ford fieta/ka front calipers ont eh back with solid disks, 40mm pistons, but i dont want to start welding eh arm jsut yet!


I have 996 front calipers, now also, i hope the brake balance will be better but the handbrake is hydrolioc and struggles to lock some times, so bigger pistons would be welcome.

So i source rear calipers from a 89/90 525, and the piston is noticeably larger.
However, I bought brand new rotors and pads for the 318ti, and the pads won't fit into the caliper even after I pushed the piston in all the way, the pads are just too thick. they fit one at a time

Does the 525 caliper call for different size pads? Or do I need to sand my new ones down a bit?

Ah, I had been lucky enough to find E34 rear calipers with lightly used pads I used, so I have not replaced them yet.

Looking at RealOEM, the pads are different part numbers. :cool:

I think I'm going to try and salvage the pads, the were Pagid. I'm going to try a few other techniques to load the caliper when I get home.

since posting this, ive got a set of e46 330d calipers, im wondering about if they will fit the non vented carrier and put a spacer in there...


These are 42mm pistons, factory compact is 36 and the e34 is 38...

when i did my 330 fronts, I used the 330 caliper and carrier. When i did the e34 rear brakes, the e34 carrier wasn't a bolt on, i had to reuse my stock one.