Spent the weekend going over the car in preparation, some general maintenance, and a couple of upgrades.
The car was serviced before I bought it, but just to make sure I gave it a serviced it again, fresh oil and filters, but the plugs were long life platinums, and looked practically new, so left them.
Then the bit I looked forward to, new brakes...
Got a set of drilled and grooved discs, vented on the front.
Carbone Lorraine RC5+ pads for the front.
AP Racing Formula DOT 5.1 Brake Fluid
Extra High Temp Paint
and to finish it off, a couple set of Decals off ebay..
Most of it was straight forward, just time consuming (though I did have the advantage of my dads garage, tools and car lift). The calipers were the one thing which took a bit of figuring out. I know there are guides here, but this is the way I did it. The fact that I was replacing the discs meant the caliper had to come off anyway. Once the disc was off, I put to old rags over the rest of the wheel assembly, and the wing of the car. Masked off the brake line and any other parts of the caliper I didn't want to paint, and then went at it with the spray can. This way you can get a nice even coating, and cover all the difficult to reach parts. After letting it dry properly, I reassembles the disc and caliper. Even with my best attempts, the paint got dirty and grubby during this, so once everything was in place, I cleaned the painted area lightly, and then applied some more paint with a brush. The spray had still covered the majority of area including all the difficult to reach areas, so this was really only a touch up, but really made a great job. Finally, let it dry again, and then placed the (heat resistant) decals. I had considered applying a lacquer, but couldn't find a heat resistant one, so fingers crossed it will last as is.
Anyway, the results...
Have to say, very happy with the results, will have to wait will Tuesday to see how the brakes perform, but I'm delighted with the look of the new discs and painted calipers anyway.
