I'll be painting my calipers next weekend. I invested in a black G2 caliper kit. It came with some cleaner for the calipers but mine are lookin prety rusty. I'm not to positive that just the cleaner is going to do the trick. I was thinking maybe sandpaper? If so i really wasnt sure what grit to use to be safe. Anyone know? or got any better ideas than sandpaper?
go down to a pawnshop and buy a used dremel, preferably if it comes with the wire brush tip. if not get the tip from your local hard ware store. You can polish them up quickly and they'll look sweeeeeet. i bought the same kit but blue. sucks you have to take the wheels off to do it. I plan on using the excess on parts of my engine. throttle body probably.
ya, does suck having to take the wheels off but i'm replacing rotors with silver drilled/slotted ones, painting the calipers, and puting some motegi ff7 rims on at the same time. So it works out I'm going to go buy a drill or dremel today one or the other. In a few weeks i'm going to be doing the struts/springs to, should be fun.
ya, does suck having to take the wheels off but i'm replacing rotors with silver drilled/slotted ones, painting the calipers, and puting some motegi ff7 rims on at the same time. So it works out I'm going to go buy a drill or dremel today one or the other. In a few weeks i'm going to be doing the struts/springs to, should be fun.
Well i bought the dremel today for about 60 bucks. It's prety nice, ended up buying a seperate carbon mini wheel. I been sanding the calipers down with the small sandpaper attachment first, and then cleanin em up with the carbon wheel. The rotors are really rough and rusty. The sandpapers really smoothing it out and geting rid of the horrible bumps. This way when i get down to it and paint it, it wont look so lumpy. I'm prety much taking em to bare mettal at the moment. Theres still a bit of either paint (what it was stock) or alittle rust down in small dimples on the caliper even after i run over it with the wheel. I dont think its a big deal though. I think the paint should stick just fine as long as its been gone over. When i go to paint i will end up removing the calipers completely, but i'm going to need to bleed the lines. I havnt done this before so let me throw a guess. Do i basicaly just rehook the line back up, then have someone pump the brakes and hold it, then i loosen the screw lookin thing on the caliper itself, let the air out, retighten, rinse and repeat? Is that right?
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I'm going to go buy a drill or dremel today one or the other. In a few weeks i'm going to be doing the struts/springs to, should be fun. 
