tez162003

yes they are indeed 4 pots. I know i know, i'm swapping 4 pot brembos for 4 pot brembos... but I saw them cheap and wanted something to do. After all, if you wanted a 355mm Brembo GT kit for a 350z new you would need to spend £3000. http://www.larkspeed.com/index.pl?c=BREMBOGTNISS&s=category Yes I assumed they'd need a fair amount of work. You can make as little or as much work as you like, depends how thorough you want to be. I wanted to do a good job on them, all down to my painting skills now... I know they wont be perfect but I'm hoping they will look reasonable. I will be leaving the seals for now, just going to clean up around the scratch seal/ dust seal. The pistons are bloody tight so they have a good seal still. I will also be using the old pads and discs for now, see if I like the brakes before buying new parts. To be honest, I'm not actaully a fast driver so have no need for bigger brakes, I just fancied a mini project, and I've always wished I had slightly bigger brakes to fill the front wheels. however 380mm kit would have been so much better for behind 19s. Oh well..

who's big redd? and is that person/company in the uk?

so you know how to spell boobs but not learn

I got bored last week so randomly searched ebay, put a bid in on some brakes, got outbid and snipped it at the last second. Guessed the other persons bid spot on and put 50p onto haha. Anyway, I now had a pair of Brembo Gran Turismo Calipers with AP Bells and disks, 350z braided lines and mounts. No doubt I got them cheap as they need a bit of a spruce up. Discs and pads are used but have a little bit of life left yet. Little bit of heat crazing on the discs but nothing anywhere near that 1mm mark (thats when skimming or replacements are required) So time to start minting them up. Split the discs into 2, and went about getting the rust off the bells. Air tolls are awesome... They're now off getting powder coated. So onto those calipers, split them down, pads, spring clips, bleed nipples, brake line from front to back, brake hoses, mounts etc etc. I then set about striping the coating off them and some of it was worn off/chipped or still there. Using a trye fitting machine to hold the caliper... after then i set about getting new parts etc, as Brembo don't supply individual components as they got used to often on other makes apparently. That and Brembo are Italian so they shut for the whole of August.. :o I had to search elsewhere. local engineering shops, motor factors etc, new bleed nipples, new dust cover (on the way) new brake lines for front to rear of caliper, new brembo stickers (in the post from RT) new bolts to fix the 2 parts together, new disc bolts (although i may use the originals here). The colour I have decided to paint them is a custom 3 stage colour, an ice white with a pearl and metallic, so thats primer, base coat, pearl coat, sticker the clear. :o this is where Im up too. just a bit more prep needed then ready to make and paint. will keep updated if anyone's interesting.

i tried to do a quick search to see what it looked like. But nothing.

Cool, will keep that in mind later on when I pop to the paint shop.

No doubt operated by a 16 year old kid who isn't even trained to mix paints. I have been there and had them mix up paint for me before, cocked it up 2 or 3 times in a row, had enough of Halfords, everything they do or sell is crap (except the professional range of tools, they're okay) I will only ever use Halfords as a very last resort.

Because that's Halfords...... enough said.

I found a local(ish) paint shop now, so I will go browse their colour book and get one made up there and then. What has happened to all the paint shops nowadays? I knew of several, went to a couple yesterday and they are gone. Recession is hitting paint shops I'm guessing.

Mixture of shouldn't use a pressure washer very close to paintwork, its not there to remove the dirt for you, you do that with a washing mitt. The reason that has done that is most probably down to it being resprayed at some point or another. Aftermarket respraying is never the quality of OEM.

I'm going to paint my new Brembo Calipers this weekend hopefully, so I need to go buy the paint, however I don't know what colour to get. I am after a really good bright white metallic paint. Do you guys know of any cars, be it Nissan, Ford, Vauxhall etc etc that has a bright white highly metallic paint colour that is not some special 3 stage paint like Aston Martin Morning Frost White. I want to simply do white primer, white metallic, brembo sticker and clear.

Need skills like this guy if you want to fend off those bears. I am so jealous, that all looks amazing, is this just a year out sort of thing or have you moved to Canada permanently?

If you like the neo-chrome/polarized buts, I recommend the TPI ones. These have a floating seating unlike all the others I have seen around. http://www.taperpro.co.uk/2012/polarised.htm#

forget that, I want this. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2009-Mk7-Ford-Fiesta-3dr-Cosworth-Modified-Track-Race-Car-/290748549984?_trksid=p4340.m1982&_trkparms=aid%3D555001%26algo%3DPW.CURRENT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D37%26meid%3D1197227215283086545%26pid%3D100009%26prg%3D1025%26rk%3D1%26#ht_1384wt_1397 this too is silly money but you can see where the money has gone.

Internal drive is not advised unless its a last resort. Not as good an engagement with the socket piece and more likely to round off.

Yes they would fit, however with them being quite long in length, they would stick out of your wheels miles. Look at image 3 of the listing. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&_trksid=p4340.l2557&item=110926698508&nma=true&rt=nc&si=bRMiM%252FJd%252BmjiX2aKdoqGWe6qy9o%253D&sspagename=STRK%3AMEDWX%3AIT&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc#ht_1736wt_1397 If thats the look you want, then those nuts are fine. If not something like this is better. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/20-BLUE-TPI-ALLOY-WHEEL-NUTS-FOR-NISSAN-X-TRAIL-/180526745013?pt=UK_Cars_Parts_Vehicles_Wheels_tyres_Trim_Nuts_ET&hash=item2a083b85b5#ht_602wt_1397 It says Xtrail on that specific listing but its the correct nut. 12 x 1.25 tapered.

you dont want tuner nuts on those wheels. They will look tiny and stupid. You will most probably just need a standard 17/19mm Hex Tapered nut, (most common nuts going). Just check the bolt seating is flat and not curved, (tapered or radius seating) I am 99% sure they will be tapered. I have a set of brand new 19mm closed black ones if you wanted black. Exactly the same as these.

Did you not bid £900 for a set on eBay and said they were too much money for you? The ones you bought were £1650 in the for sale thread?

I've done white calipers before. Considering I am a neat freak/part time detailer its not an issue having white. I don't see the difference from standard gold to white anyway, they both show the dirt on them. Anyway, I like white...

Snot green instead Yuk, not thanks. I will have to go for my other option of metallic white.

Fecking feck feckidy feck! I was literally about to paint my new brembos that colour this weekend!

shame he exhausts are wonky, otherwise a proper minter i'd say.

I wash cars in the rain all the time. dont try dry it though. What i do is rinse still using a hose. then wash, then rinse again then leave the rain to rinse the hose water off. leaving no water marks then.

it may be a completely pointless car in the respect it is a 'replica' but you have to give the original kit builder credit. That looks like a hell of a lot of work to get all those panels right, and fit to a 350z.

whats wrong with black wheels? better than bright luminous yellow, green or pink that some chavs do (even worse when they do one colour on each wheel), and black is a bit different to 99% of cars that have silver wheels. Silver wheels =