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3000GT SL to VR4 Brake Caliper Upgrade

This isn;t really a tutorial, but a sort of photo prograssion. Just the basics.

Today i finally got some braking power, and went from the anemic SL brakes from my NA Spyder to 1st Gen VR4 brakes. I don;t believe 1st gen are as big as second, but these were free and avaialble, so i went ahead and did it :)

My first impressions are WHAT A DIFFERENCE!!! Now, I went from very very worn pads to brand new all the way around, and VR4 calipers from SL, so it's a huge difference anyways... but wow. Before I'd have to really brake hard... now I have to be careful when I brake. I'm loving it.

Here we go.

First, here are the new stainless steel aircraft grade braided hose lines I will be using for my brakes. i will be selling these through deftracing.com, and they are top quality.

Here's what my cars calipers used to look like. i went for a honey bee look before to match the side lights, but the yellow was really hurting, and I wanted to go red.

Looking worn...turning whitish from the old darker yellow.



haggard.



I did do some prep on the new calipers though. First, i shaved the Mitsubishi name off with a grinder, and smoothed it out very nicely. I then used high temp caliper paint to lay several layers of red on it.

I also had something in store for the new caliper to see how it looked... and to match perfectly the rear logo on my car =)

Here's the VR4 knuckle installed. There's probably a real name for this part, but I don;t know it if there is =)

You can see the old caliper hanging there too. This backing looks horrible. It doesnt matter, you dont see it at all behind the rotor.

here's my new red caliper and the install of the new stainless braided line. Perfect fit :)

Oh snap... JDM logo! Woot. Came out nice!



Fitting the caliper on the installed rotor.

Think i needed new pads? Decided to change out the rears too when I saw this. Doh!

The brake pads install through the back of the caliper.

Uninstalling the knuckle on the other side.



See how easily it comes out? It didn't, this is after some hammering.

There's the new stainless line installed. Yum. I didn't replace the other line, although I should have. I needed to make another though, and I did not have time. next time!

Did a brake line flush and fill... good times.

And here is a pic finished. I didn;t have time/light enough to take a good pic, but soon! The GTO logo looks great behind the wheel... and I wish I could see it with the wheel spinning ont he freeway, when you can see it well/read it.

A little closer.


 


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