Godspeed Brakes

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Just had some front and rear calipers in off an Evo for a strip and rebuild to colour change them , I don't know what mileage the car had done but its a show car and they wanted the caliper colour changed to red. The anodising had faded quite a bit on the outside face and didn't look that good through his wheels
The calipers were the original orange colour , so we started stripping them down , they like using plenty of thread lock in the factory so were tight coming apart , one of the bolts holding the pad plates in snapped so we had to machine it out
There was some road muck and dust in the bores when we removed the pistons , but it all came out quite easily with no damage to the bores at all.







The pistons are machined with grooves that the seals are fitted into , so the bore in the calipers need to be perfect to hold the seal , the calipers are anodised , which is also in the piston bore , so we wanted to leave the bores untouched , so covered them up and bead blasted the calipers , which were then primed and sprayed bright red







We had some stickers made up locally to finish them off , I thiink they came out quite good







If anyone wants the same doing , we can respray them any colour you want for £65 per caliper

Cheers Ian
01656 723060

dave_garrett

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Nice Job Ian, how much would you charge to refurb a full set of brembos in red with decals (thats fronts and rears) .

Dave

-shane-

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There look brilliant, when mine get tatty I'll def book mine in

JonMc

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They look spot on Ian. I have heard that the orange anodised finish was quite poor and that's why some sellers will only supply the black finish. If I can find a cheap second-hand set they will be coming your way

Godspeed Brakes

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Cheers guys .

Dave
We charge the same to do the brembos , £65 per caliper , we can chemically clean the seals and re use them , if they have any damage at all we would replace them , seals are £40 per front caliper and £30 per rear caliper.
Again you can have them any colour.
Cheers Ian

Rice Rocket

iTrader: (23)

Nice job!
I have the black K Sports and they have faded really bad, i'll be sending mine to you in the new year at some point! Still to decide what colour...

Ricey

dave_garrett

iTrader: (24)

Thanks Ian, will be in contact soon, I fancy a refurb when I take calipers off to fit braided lines .

Dave

Chrispyd

Hi Ian
I have K Sport 8-pot calipers and the bolts have all oxidised - just wondering if you think I can remove them and clean them up / paint them easily myself, or are they likely to be mullered with thread lock as you have indicated previously?

Any advice gratefully received.

stityper1

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Do you replace the bolts as part of the refresh as they tend to have rusted?

Godspeed Brakes

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Try and undo them , if they are tight you could go out for a hard drive to get the calipers hot them just crack each one loose while they are hot , then change 1 bolt at a time

No we don't as we bead blast the rust off , if the bolts are damaged we would change them and charge extra , they are not expensive though

Cheers Ian

Chrispyd

Thanks Ian - they are not fitted to the car yet, so I can't get them hot that way unfortunately. Sorry for the 20 questions but If I can remove them to clean, how tight are they torqued when I replace em?
Is it possible to buy replacement sets for these calipers, as the bolts are several different sizes? Cheers

beef-on-the-bone

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could you replace the caliper bolts and bleed nipples with stainless??

Godspeed Brakes

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I'm sure the bolts were standard pitch M8 bolts so will be available from any good bolt suppliers , can remember the exact size as we haven't done any for a while now

Godspeed Brakes

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yes you could