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Dec 30, 2007 | 10:16 AM

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Red_Rabbit86

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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.

Dec 30, 2007 | 12:03 PM

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Dec 30, 2007 | 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...

Dec 30, 2007 | 01:44 PM

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I'm painting em black today, stay tuned for pics.

Dec 30, 2007 | 04:55 PM

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As promised...

Dec 30, 2007 | 04:58 PM

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Wow, nice!

Dec 30, 2007 | 05:05 PM

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that is PERFECT! not ricey...not wannabee...just clean and simple! great job!

Dec 30, 2007 | 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.

Dec 30, 2007 | 07:42 PM

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are thoes the 2 piston calipers?

Dec 30, 2007 | 07:47 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...

Rusty?

Dec 30, 2007 | 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.