Broke down my Akebono's and cleaned them up prior to powder coating. I ruined 4 pistons because I shot them out of the caliper ... which I found completely hilarious
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02-09-2021, 12:03 AM | #646 (permalink) |
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Broke down my Akebono's and cleaned them up prior to powder coating. I ruined 4 pistons because I shot them out of the caliper ... which I found completely hilarious at the time. It's not terrible funny now. Oh no. there it is. I'm laughing again.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CLDgjUaH..._web_copy_link They 100% needed to be gone through. I'm glad I did. They had a lot of grime and brake dust. The boots were hashed. |
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Hey dumb chit. You damage the pistons. You're SOL! You CAN'T buy just the pistons. You HAVE to buy the WHOLE caliper.
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I see that Z1 has them. When I did mine. I needed them NOW, not later. I didn't have time to check with Z1. https://www.z1motorsports.com/front-...caAlXuEALw_wcB
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Oh man I totally got lost in the moment having fun. I only had a few hours of sleep and was running on fumes. RIGHT after I blasted them out I had a moment of clarity and face palmed hard. .... I laughed at how stupid it was... Nay.. how stupid I was.
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Haven’t even put any thoughts on the brakes
As I’m sure it wouldn’t hurt to freshen these up a bit
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02-12-2021, 05:04 PM | #657 (permalink) |
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You have a right hand drive car?
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Found my lost Stillen cooler! YES! That tidbit of metal is WAY too expensive.
My buddies thought it would be funny to put a dead winged rat on my engine. It was indeed funny. My 2 piece rotors were disassembled. I used a rubber hammer to get the inserts out, with the exception of 3 of them. I should have used a punch because I ended up mushrooming the head a bit with a claw hammer. That set me back an hour trying to grind it out. I have all new centric pistons coming in for my calipers. Also, I ordered ACDelco rubber seals. I thought that was made in America... Apparently not. All the bolts were cleaned up for my brake caliper. I used a wire wheel to gently go over the surface which knocked off all the corrosion. I also primed the heads on the bolts and then painted them black. Might as well go full re-tard. The 2 piece rotor hats were scuffed and primed. Later (next day) I was was chatting up Bryan Settle and he noticed the Epoxy Primer was not high temp. SOooooOooooOOooo I went to the parts store to purchase 40 dollars with of paint. After that I sent a message off to the powder coater and asked him how much for cermic coating. He quoted me 50 bucks... SOLD! Lastly, I now have the push rod measurements for my engine. I'm happy to say that's the last internal component I needed for my engine to run. I'm chipping away at this elephant. It feels like I have some tail wind on this project right now. A question for you guys. Have the videos been getting easier to watch? Or... don't quit your day job? Or... you simply haven't watched/cared. Not going to hurt my feelings. just looking for a bit of feedback. Reason I'm doing it is to give a bit more depth to the build here, have some video documentation for myself and most importantly... nerd out a bit with video editing/graphic software. |
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Where did you get the brakes seals and pistons from? Does the seal kit have the o-ring for between the caliper halves?
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