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So I wasn't a big fan of the "Gay equals sign blue and yellow" calipers my car came with, so I decided to change their look. First I sandblasted all four (after taping off all sensitive areas and plugging the hard line fitting, 1/8" NPT BTW) to get about 80% of the paint off. I then used a steel wire brush and a DeWalt drill to get the remainder off. The picture below is what I got to after about two and a half hours of wire brush whoopin... 
Lets see, 2.5 hours per rear caliper, probably 3 each for the fronts to get to a mid-way polishing point? No thanks... So I decided to scrap my original plan to polish the calipers, and picked up some gloss black caliper paint. It will match my (eventual) Stoptechs anyway. So I hit them with 4 coats of paint, Dremeled off the Nissan for some bling bling and here are the results (sorry for the shitty picture quality, freeware image resizer can only get you so far): Before 
After 
Its tough to tell here, but I polished the crap out of the retainer clip, spring and spring loaded bolts. For everyones future reference, this only looks impressive if the wheel is off, as the only part of any of that you can see with the wheel on is the bolt heads. 
I'm quite satisfied with the end result. Classier, less ricey look to them, not to mention the performance increase.
New rotors, lines, pads and fluids courtesy of Coz at Concept Z Performance. Very noticable difference compared to stock, and I think it improves the look a little too, though they are still not 14", but I don't quite need those yet. I also installed my 300 degree camber kit at the same time. Installation was a lot easier than I had first expected, with removing the BMC and all. I had to bleed the lines anyway, so this was the perfect time. I have an alignment scheduled tomorrow, so I should be in good shape after that.
"...Downpipes own. They own everything...anything...all there ever was and will be...they should be stock on all cars. Screw the environment, emissions, noise! I love them...I shall name my first-born after them with glee..." - SeedyRom 05:13:20 10/03/02 "Ricers are idiots" - RezidentEvil "i love the cock" - genic 22:20:47 09/25/03 "a hair brush does make a nice didlo, but it fixes your hair even better" -Nixit 6/2/2003 |
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Finally got my calipers repainted. - 
