Hi All,

Some advice please, I am going to recon my Brembos and want to know your adive on whether to paint or powder-coat. If powder coat is there a high temp powder? (I will have to out source it). If paint I know you would use Ultra high temp then bake the calliper.
Budget isnt a huge issue I am going for a quality job and then not have to re-do (basically I want the longest lasting option).
From what I have researched powder seems to be the badger, here is my vid or them;
Any advice would be great, thanks in advance.

 

Used powder on mine / obv once back from painters you will have prep work to do around the bleed nipples ( removing excess paint etc but solid job / I was goin to do wet paint initially but went with this once sourced the paint from Germany .

 

Ok cool looks great, did you say you had to clean up bolt holes from powder coaters, dont they plug the holes etc?

 

Sure but your always goin to get overlap esp if you have had ferrous corrosion from the nipples eating at the thread top./just burring with a dremel did the job for me .

 

Dude, I have been using this paint stripper and was going to sand the corrosion around the fasteners etc . The paint stripper I used it unreal, burns like all sorts of hell but destroys the paint in seconds and eats the corrosion (pure poison).
Did you recon yours yourself, or did you buy paint and someone else did it?

 

I put the calipers in a acid pickle , then light shot blasted them myself at my mates workshop , then he painted them as he does all my paint jobs . I then refurbed then myself with all the gubbins & had another friend zinc plate the bolts . Finished the job off with speed bleeders instead of stock bleed nipples .they are better than new now & will outlast the car most prob

 

I’ve just watched your vid
You do know that I stripped my calipers down in half’s don’t you ?
Pistons out / seals out / pad retain plate s out etc etc ( thanks to Ian at Godspeed for the little screws for those / if your not up to that job then I would advise you to pass them onto someone like Ian to refurbish them for you
Good luck
Regards mic

 

 

@@jazzyjembreaze, im currently stripping them whilst they are together, my thought process was that I didnt want to get the stripper and crap in the brake fluid lines. I will buy some speed blenders too, did you get your rebuild kit off Godspeed too?
I will take them apart thou, need to use a compressor to pop out the pistons (is that how you got them out?)
@@Hawkins 1995 they look sweet dude, were did you get your Brembo stickers?

 

 

I will definitely wait for it too dry, would be soul destroying. Basically I aint stripping these again manual style, so satisfying but so time consuming.
I will make a video of me taking the paint off of them and hopefully get some footage of them painted too.

 

Managed to source oem kits both front & back from a Ebay seller .
My pistons were not seized so they came out with soft jaw mole grips .

 

Awesome will need to get me some of them.