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Old 12-30-07, 10:16 AM
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Have a set of 4 piston calipers I'm swapping on soon so I decided to clean them up and sand em down and polish them before I rebuild them. Its below freezing now and my hands and feet went numb, so I didn't get much done so far unfortunately..





I'll prolly just end up doing the front face and the top since those will be the only parts you'll see anyways. Anyone else done this before?




are thoes fc or fd cali's? thoes are bad *** looking i only have the single pot cali. anywho those are some bad *** calipers.
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Old 12-30-07, 12:03 PM
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Old 12-30-07, 12:25 PM
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If you polish them, they're probably going to be dirty/rusty again in a matter of weeks.

Personally I'd paint them black...
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Old 12-30-07, 01:44 PM
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I'm painting em black today, stay tuned for pics.
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Old 12-30-07, 04:55 PM
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Old 12-30-07, 04:58 PM
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Wow, nice!
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that is PERFECT! not ricey...not wannabee...just clean and simple! great job!
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Old 12-30-07, 05:27 PM
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I'm gonna have to do something like this with my calipers, I eventually need to do the calipers on my evo too since the brembos are fading and the clear coat peeled off.
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are thoes the 2 piston calipers?
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Old 12-30-07, 07:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Valkyrie
If you polish them, they're probably going to be dirty/rusty again in a matter of weeks.

Personally I'd paint them black...
Rusty?
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Old 12-30-07, 07:56 PM
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Well, not rusty per say.

But aluminum corrodes just the same. You'd really need to clear coat it to keep them looking good, but IMO it looks better in black with silver details.
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i don't think the surface of the FC 4pots will allow it look good polished
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Old 12-30-07, 08:43 PM
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i don't think the surface of the FC 4pots will allow it look good polished
The polishing removes the cast finish.
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Should have kept up with the polishing.I still have to hit them up one more time and will turn out nice.

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Should have kept up with the polishing.I still have to hit them up one more time and will turn out nice.

Did you use a wire wheel?
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