Wednesday 10 January 2007

Brakes painted and ready to go

Just a small update...

With the Variettas only coming stock with 2 pot fronts and single pot rear brakes, an upgrade was needed now that the engien conversion was done. So I hunted round the wreckers and scored some R33 GTS-T front and rear brake calipers nice and cheap for $250 the lot :)

The guy who had owned the car they were ripped off had done a dodgy spray-can red job - everything was red, clips and all.. peeling, overspray, underspray, runs, dirt... but they were cheap so meh

I spent a while deciding between black or brembo gold for repainting them, but with the new rims having a gold centre cap, thought id see how the brembo gold looks behind the rims.

So cheers to AFM Enterprises in Osborne Park for an incredible job removing every spec of dodgy red paint and then applying a nice 2 pac paintjob in brembo gold to them.

These will be fitted/converted early next week along with new pads and DBA rotors, and the fitting my turbo timer and my E-01 EBC and a few other bits and pieces... as well as dialling up the boost to get the disco potato cooking! :)

I've also got a few goodies (carbon strut brace, heat sink cover, and Nismo Power Brace) on the way over from Japan, plus a few other plans in the works that will hopefully see some bigger updates soon...