Brake Discs Painted

[Spirit]

Front wheel off.....glad I am bothering to do this:

http://www.p.honey.btinternet.co.uk/photogallery/photo26003/BP1.jpg

[Spirit]

Sharon starts to clean it up......sporting a Club VR4 tshirt of course for interested passers-by to see :D

http://www.p.honey.btinternet.co.uk/photogallery/photo26003/BP2.jpg

[Spirit]

Fronts are looking better already:

http://www.p.honey.btinternet.co.uk/photogallery/photo26003/BP3.jpg

[Spirit]

Bloody knackered taking these wheels on and off :D

http://www.p.honey.btinternet.co.uk/photogallery/photo26003/BP4.jpg

[Spirit]

Backs were just as bad !

http://www.p.honey.btinternet.co.uk/photogallery/photo26003/BP5.jpg

[Spirit]

Job done ! Looks much better ! Here's a pic of a front and back wheel fully completed:

http://www.p.honey.btinternet.co.uk/photogallery/photo26003/BP6.jpg

http://www.p.honey.btinternet.co.uk/photogallery/photo26003/BP7.jpg

[Nick VR4]

Cant see any pics mate :INSERT INTO post VALUES (

I dont think Yahoo lets you view on another site
We had this issue a while ago didnt we

[SGHOM]

cant see owt !!! I'm still doing mine. wife keeps taking car to go shopping !!

[Spirit]

Sorry guys, now all sorted hopefully

Pete

[BraindG]

looks good pete :)

[Nick VR4]

Wow looks good M8
I'm going to have to do mine now .Well sometime soon I hope ;)

[SGHOM]

thats all mine done, thank god !!:D

[Brind]

Looks very smart Pete, I take it you went for the black caliper paint then?

Since I still haven't had chance to do mine I had a thought.. how did you do the part of the 'disc' that the caliper was hiding? did you put the wheel back on and then roll her back and then take wheel off again and then paint? :Ponder:

[Kieran]

:cool1:

:idea: YES! INSERT INTO post VALUES (Gets out "Cunning, but also cheap plans for GLS" book and starts making notes)

Think I'll need a day or two off before Santa Pod:D

[Spirit]

Originally posted by Brind
Looks very smart Pete, I take it you went for the black caliper paint then?

Since I still haven't had chance to do mine I had a thought.. how did you do the part of the 'disc' that the caliper was hiding? did you put the wheel back on and then roll her back and then take wheel off again and then paint? :Ponder:

Mark - not painted the calipers mate, just the discs. The calipers looks a nasty job so I thought I would see the results of others at Pod before attempting it.

With regards to the disc part hidden by the calipers, well you probably arn't supposed to do this but had both wheels jacked up at the same time INSERT INTO post VALUES (front then back) and was able to turn the hub by hand to do those bits :D

[Brind]

Originally posted by spirit979
Mark - not painted the calipers mate, just the discs. The calipers looks a nasty job so I thought I would see the results of others at Pod before attempting it.

With regards to the disc part hidden by the calipers, well you probably arn't supposed to do this but had both wheels jacked up at the same time INSERT INTO post VALUES (front then back) and was able to turn the hub by hand to do those bits :D

Your calipers aren't painted?? :eek: :eek: they are bloody clean then! mine look really cack!
Black may be the best colour for yours mate IMO.


As per your second comments, YOU NUTTER! :D

[Spirit]

Originally posted by Brind



As per your second comments, YOU NUTTER! :D

Moi ? A nutter, never ! hehehehe

[Ultra VR-4]

what did u clean the discs with?

[KiwiTT]

It's all in the detail.

And I thought I liked my car. There is lot more I need to do to show it though.

Well done

[Spirit]

Originally posted by Ultra VR-4
what did u clean the discs with?

Just hard graft mate, a wire brush mainly !

[-LegnumVR4-]

I did a friends VR-4's rotors and calipers, just cleaned them with a water based degreaser. Roughing them up a bit with a wire brush then washing off the dust before I painted them. Painted the calipers Satin black, makes the car look a lot cleaner.