New Calipers
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St. Jude Donor '08-'09-'10
New Calipers
If I buy new front calipers for my Vette, do they come with the pistons, bleed valve, etc.? Or, are they JUST the caliper in its bare form? Just curious, since mine are all dingy and I can't clean them up nice enough to be happy. My efforts to refinish them did not go too well. Thanks!
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I bought a set of new Z06 ones a few years back from one of the dealers here on the forum. Just had to swap them out with the stock ones, switch over the pads, and bleed them and they were good to go!
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great! The Z06 ones are what I need. Hopefully I can get them up here within a week or two... Winter hibernation should be ending in early April and I wanna be ready to go!
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I figured that was the only difference; however I discovered... at the expense of my current calipers... that I SUCK at painting anything. At this point it's easier to ditch the ones I screwed up and buy new ones. They had become faded and stained black from years of brake dust; I was trying to bring them back to life. It didn't end well. Besides, I already have new rotors and pads... may as well make everything new!
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I figured that was the only difference; however I discovered... at the expense of my current calipers... that I SUCK at painting anything. At this point it's easier to ditch the ones I screwed up and buy new ones. They had become faded and stained black from years of brake dust; I was trying to bring them back to life. It didn't end well. Besides, I already have new rotors and pads... may as well make everything new!
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St. Jude Donor '08-'09
This isn't a bad option, or just paint them yourself. The duplicolor kit worked fine for me. Clean them well, and REMEMBER, it takes several coats of paint before they look good. The first three coats looked like crap. FINALLY, it looked good with the last one. Get a better brush(at a hardware store) than the one that comes with the kit, mask off the areas you don't want to paint, and do it on a warm, but not hot day. The paint dries so fast, that it is easy to put one coat of paint on right after another.
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http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c6-c...dercoater.html
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edit: Thanks for that link! Just sent him an email. Now I just need to decide if I should go with gloss black for the brackets, or have them red to match the calipers!
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