Painted calipers

[montreal ponies]

I can't find those "GT350" decals on amazon.
Got a link?

type brembo decals , you'll see them, sorry having trouble copying.

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[krt22]

Is there a writeup on properly removing the calipers and bleeding the brakes for the GT350? Looking to attempt replacing the calipers with the R calipers.

Its honestly pretty straight forward. All torque values are on TMO

-Jack up car (MCarsfan has a thread on this)
-Remove wheels
-loosen e-brake cable tension (a lot, you need to back off the nut almost all the way, its in the drive shaft tunnel next to the tranny)
-remove calipers. The rear is the pita because you need to move the ebrake actuator out of the way to get to the bolt, hence loosening the tension in the cable as much as you can. The front caliper bolts require a T60
-swap over pads (some may suggest banging out the pad pins while calipers still attached, or at least getting it started)
-replace calipers (replace caliper bolts or add anti-seize at your discretion)
-bleed brakes in the same fashion as any car (Back to front, starting farthest from the MC)
-The calipers each have two bleeders, you bleed in to out at each wheel
-replace wheels/lower car
-enjoy the bling

 

[live2ride90]

Its honestly pretty straight forward. All torque values are on TMO

-Jack up car (MCarsfan has a thread on this)
-Remove wheels
-loosen e-brake cable tension (a lot, you need to back off the nut almost all the way, its in the drive shaft tunnel next to the tranny)
-remove calipers. The rear is the pita because you need to move the ebrake actuator out of the way to get to the bolt, hence loosening the tension in the cable as much as you can. The front caliper bolts require a T60
-swap over pads (some may suggest banging out the pad pins while calipers still attached, or at least getting it started)
-replace calipers (replace caliper bolts or add anti-seize at your discretion)
-bleed brakes in the same fashion as any car (Back to front, starting farthest from the MC)
-The calipers each have two bleeders, you bleed in to out at each wheel
-replace wheels/lower car
-enjoy the bling

Dude, can I pay you to paint my calipers sounds like you got it down :cheers:

I am not going standard red like everyone else though, I will buy the paint and pay in beer? Haha!

 

[krt22]

Sorry I did not paint mine, so no experience with that aspect. I swapped them for the OEM R calipers. I do have my spare OEM calipers to paint however if someone wants to go that route with minimal down time.

 

[Bossing]

I think Ford's blue painted caliper like on the FoRS would have looked good (or will) on a GT350...

IMO Ford should have at least made this an optional item for the 350.

 

[krt22]

Agreed, biggest production brakes you can buy and ford hides them with a flat anodized finish.

 

[live2ride90]

I think Ford's blue like on the FoRS would have looked good (or will) on a GT350...

IMO Ford should have at least made this an optional item.

Exactly what I was thinking, well not GB but I am going DIB on mine. [MENTION=16067]krt22[/MENTION] let me know if maybe we can work something out, I can buy your old ones, replace them with mine or something like that might work for you? PM me when you get a chance.

 

[2000FormulaMan]

I see those, but I think we were asking where he got his particular set. His say "GT350".. instead of "Brembo"

type brembo decals , you'll see them, sorry having trouble copying.

 

[Next Phase]

Mine were already red... :shrug:





I've painted a number of calipers in my day. You get better coverage if you remove the calipers, but it's a whole lot more work to bleed the brakes, remove the calipers, etc. I've also painted some calipers by removing them, but keeping the brake lines attached.

My most recent caliper job was when I painted some Gen 4 Viper brakes when I did the BBK on the Gen 2 car. Moved the fronts to the rear. They sell the brake caliper paint at the auto parts store. Put 3 to 4 coats on and used some vinyl Viper stickers from a custom print shop. They held up reallt well even with some track days.

Thought I had a better picture, but here is what I had on Photobucket

 

[2000FormulaMan]

Hey Rimox, could you let us know where you got the "GT 350" caliper decals? Are they high temp?

How are the decals and painted calipers holding up?

Thanks!

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