Brembo refurbishing

You should be fine with either or them mate. Depends on how much you want to do to them i.e. sanding them down or just cleaning and painting them?

If your sanding them down you will get a better finish with the spray.

Ive just done my standard calipers with hammerite and they look miles better.

J3RV X said:

Have you got any pics?

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I did mine in June with Hammerite paint, i toyed with the idea of hiring a spray gun and filling it with the Hammerite stuff and applying it that way, but i think its too thick to do that, so applied two coats with a brush.

If you're going to do your Brembos, you might as well do your rears as well and having them all matching, but i assume you'd thought of that anyway?

Anyway, here's my pictures...

Did mine last year.

Yeh i did mine exactly the same way as Big_Lad we have identical cars pretty much, i stripped the calipers off tho and did they fully inside and out the refitted them and bled the brakes, the flei-pipes were seized on my car so when you do yours use lots of wd40 and dont snap the flexis on the brembos they are a fortune for the little metal bits.

You can just disconnect them but it will drip out brake fluid them you will need to bleed your brakes once you have fitted them, so i would check that the bleed nipples will slacken off the calipers first, also use lots of wd40 as if they snap you will have to drill them out and possibly need a new caliper so be very carful, if your not 100% confident get a garage to do it as thenm you have piece of mind as your brakes are very important(not to state the obvious or anything but)....

Yeh you will have got the new flexis with the brembos because they were the ones i said to the bloke i would have if he sent me all the brackets and bolts etc... and then wen i checked the next day he sed yes if they come off but wen i went to buy them they had gone lol however anyways lol yeh just before hand spray them with wd40 to make it easier, release the caliper from the retaining bracket on the hub then undo the flei-pipe at the join where it goes to solid metal brake pipes, this connection should be the same as the standard ones. If your using nitromorse them have you fully stripped and removed all the seals out of the caliper as that will melt them?

no you will probs knack the seals best get them refurbed propperly now and have all new seals fitted, its possible but if your going that far then why not.

Just rub them down alittle, mask off the opening or plug them mask all the bits u dont want painting then use hammerite spray paint, couple of coats of that, then high temp laqure then new stickers.

Looks good.

How did you get rid of the old paint. Scrape or did you use the powerhose?