Wanted: Callipers

[ottostreet]

Hi everyone,

I have callipers than I crudely painted three years ago, and they look fairly terrible. The rear ones have seized too while the car was in the body shop, and as a result, Im looking at options to fix them up. I have ordered EBC Yellowstuff all round, and am going to get EBC Ultimax brake rotors all round, but will still need to sort the callipers. If anyone has a GPX/GPvR that they are breaking and know the callipers are all fine, please let me know prices. Otherwise, I will end up refurbing the ones I have, but they will still look crap!

Thanks!

[mivecrx]

If your refurbishing them you could easily clean and repaint them, silver makes them look like a new set. If buying a set ask brrcrx, he might have a set and maybe a refurbished set.

Yellowstuff

[ottostreet]

Any ideas on how to get the caked on 2 year old paint off? Would immersing them in something strip the paint off? I'd refurb them no problem if I could get them cleaned up properly!

[mivecrx]

Any ideas on how to get the caked on 2 year old paint off? Would immersing them in something strip the paint off? I'd refurb them no problem if I could get them cleaned up properly!

Wire wheel attachment on a drill will do it, right back to he metal.

[mivecrx]

Like this http://www.halfords.ie/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_storeId_11101_catalogId_15551_productId_190936_langId_-1_categoryId_212396

get them in any motor factor or hardware store.

[ottostreet]

I don't think that would do all of it, as I did a terrible job and it's kinda all over the calliper and hard to access in places. To get it truly back to metal, I'd have to dissolve the paint somehow as well as clean.

[mivecrx]

I don't think that would do all of it, as I did a terrible job and it's kinda all over the calliper and hard to access in places. To get it truly back to metal, I'd have to dissolve the paint somehow as well as clean.

That would definitely remove the paint, hard to reach areas are a pain. I don't know if there's any really good paint remover you could get, the new NitroMors is nothing like the old stuff.

[ottostreet]

Think I might throw them all into a bucket of brake cleaner for a few hours and go at them with a wire brush then to get them good and clean. Not worried about the rubber seals, as I'd get a refurb kit for each one. If all fails, then buy new callipers. Car would be off the road for this so not a particular disaster if it doesn't work out. Is there any flaws to trying that with brake cleaner?

[jayod12b]

Get them sand blasted, like new in 5 minutes