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04-13-2012, 08:37 AM
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CaBS
Zilvia Junkie
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The brakes I had on the car were chewing through pads really quickly so I jumped on the sale of front and rear 33GTR brembos that popped up pretty cheap.
The first step was to strip out the crappy pads they came with and all the hardware involved in holding them in.
After about an hours worth of kero bath scrubbing they came up like this.
Another few hours picking off the flaking clear coat and sanding them back with wet and dry.
Came out like this.
The black turned out better than I had hoped
Stenciled them up with some ebay purchased stick on stencils.
Then bagged the rest of the calipers to avoid over spray.
Trimmed back the front rotor stone guards to let out more heat.
After ripping the stencils off the capilers came up looking sweet. I was really happy with them!
I moved to the drum handbrake rear setup. Removing the stone guards neatly while the assembly was still off. There is actually a hole in the standard knuckle to locate these on. Just needed to give it a quick run over with sandpaper and slot them in.
I was able to get them quite neat also without slicing my hand open which is easily done on the razor sharp edges!
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