Brake Adventure Part 1
So I made the determination a LONG time ago that I was going with the 97+ brake caliper set up. Was originally going to do black and then decided nope I'm doing OEM gold calipers. Found a set of used calipers that needed to be stripped and rebuilt, and after helping [USER=18194]@Honcho[/USER] with his I figured slam dunk let's do it. Thanks to [USER=30095]@JohnWayne[/USER] setting me up with a used setup I figured I was ready to go. They weren't the best calipers ever, someone had painted OVER the OEM Gold with some kind of Red paint, well shoddy prep work means that the paint not only didn't stick but they also didn't mask certain areas. No big deal because I was going to strip them down anyways.
Well time was of the essence as I thought maybe I could find a way to still make it to NSXPO this year, I was going to sell this set and just buy brand new OEM ones, selling the 91 set and this set would net me almost enough money for a new set. Well 2 years ago when I was considering that route my logic was sound. Imagine the sticker shock when you haven't checked part prices in 2 years. So nope not gonna work, time to go to Plan C. There is a local powder coating shop here that does amazing work and I've talked to them in the past about this and they were always on board. I took a ride over there today and of course a few things have changed...
They no longer chemically strip the calipers (hooray!) they now use aluminum oxide blasting material to clean the parts. BUT they no longer disassemble calipers with the integrated parking brake. Too high of a liability, and the moment he rolled the caliper over and say "NSX" he immediately said, NOPE sorry, not touching that. I asked him if his hesitance was simply the disassembly and reassembly and he said yes. So I told him that I will disassemble all 4 calipers and bring him just the calipers and brackets if he'll do the job for half price. I've sent a lot of business his way so he agreed. Having worked with Paul on his and having bought every piece to fully rebuild the calipers I feel good about this.
These things are a PITA! The bracket bolts are torqued WAY TOO HIGH and then of course it started raining on me so I didn't make much progress but here's what I have so far...
All dirty and soaked in brake cleaner
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Cleaning them up a bit...
[Hold for Pictures tomorrow]
Not that I'm in a rush, but hopefully these will get to them this week. I need to re-read the manual and remind myself how to disassemble the rears all the way down.
