With the help of a friend this past weekend, I completely replaced all four rotors with cross-drilled ones, new ceramic pads and I painted the calipers. Went pretty well, took about 4 hours total (and a 12-pack of Sam Adams) to get it done, but we weren't rushing at all. Pics below....

 

 

Looks good!! I have red brakes as well, but I have bronze lettering on them. Did u consider lettering on ur brakes? How bout pics with rims on?

 

OOps, u beat me to it. Looks great!!!

 

Looks good. Which rotors did you go with?

 

rotors are from rotorpros.com got 'em off ebay... I'll report back in a few months to see how they are doing, if I have any problems with them!

 

Rotors are looking good. Did you have them Zinc coated? Warren

 

i like the red, looks real good!

 

Absolutely beautiful job...

 

yah, the rotors are zinced. A little groany right now as they break in, but other than that they work perfect. I don't have an ebrake either at the moment, since we had to loosen the star wheel that adjusts the ebrake to get the rotor off, and we weren't able to re-tighten it... so I'll have to take it in to get that fixed... unless someone has a trick that will get that little thing to turn back to tighten up!

 

Nice!! Definitely keep us posted, I was debating on buying those or waiting until automax got back in Sept.
Looks good though!!!

 

that looks nice

 

PM chernmax, he might know. We had no problems with the e-brake when we did the install. Good luck Warren

 

The rear brake rotor should of come with a hole that lines up with the adjustment screw, once mine where put on, we hand turned it for alignment and used a small flat tip screwdriver to tighten / tension.

We also went a little snug so that the ebrake inner rotor would smoothen also with movement and the Ebrake handle came to a complete hold with less than half the lift.

If your rotors did not come with an alignment hole, have the rears removed and drilled out on a drill press. If you park on hills or inclines, you want to apply your Ebrake, not us your transmission as a kick stand. Good Luck...

 

grab the parking brake handle and wear that sucker out... pull, release, pull, release..

is there not a hole in the front of the new rotors to turn it?


you mean that block of wood I leave in my driveway isn't acceptable?

 

What type of primer and paint did you use? My calipers are rusted a little. I wanted to paint mine silver. BTW they look great.

 

Yes they came with the hole, the problem we encountered was the little star wheel that you tighten with the screwdriver just wouldn't turn, and I didnt want to put too much force as to break it. Anyways, I dont have to worry about hills on a normal basis, and I'll get it checked out in the next couple days.

 

the paint was G2 brand caliper paint... used 3 coats and it looks great now... its a lot easier to paint them with the calipers completely off, but that's also more work if the only thing you're doing is painting.

 

There are lots on the market (check Autozone), my preference was G-2 caliper paint (ordered it on the internet), used 3 coats and is rated at 900 degrees...

After every car wash, I wipe them clean with Windex and a paper towel and they still look like I just painted them. ZERO fading... Gook Luck

 

When you get back to it, remove the rear disc's and try and work the stars back and forth with some WD-40 to loosen them up, once they spin better, try it again...

 

hey how did u put the NISSAN letters on the caliper? does the caliper already come with the letters hacked into it?

i just got my g2 red caliper paint and was goint to paint them on monday. please let me know about the letters, its amazing !

 

Looks good man but damn...you need to clean those wheel wells out

 

alot of us have used this site here..

http://www.xenonmods.com/newallcaliperdecals.htm

 

U can get different colors, check out my gold letters

 

Really sharp! Nice job

 

I painted mine black bc of the rust on the rotors...im not going to change rotors till they start vibrating or squeeling....but when I do Id like to get ones that are just drilled...I dont see that too often.

 

oh wow? are those stickers u just slap on the caliper? if so, do they come off easily or what??

 

I would love to paint mine but I have no place to do them myself.

 

I've seen someone do this,

paint the calipers, then put the stickers on, after just hit it with a few coats of clear lacquer and it should hold...

I haven't heard of any falling off so far..

 

After I painted my calipers, I roughed up the area where the stickers were going to go and I applied them with no problem. They stuck really well. Then I sprayed them with clear coat. They arent going anywhere and look great.

 

Nice....!!

 

Damn I need to put a coat of clear on mine, hopefully they're still on when I get back home...
Mine in silver with blk letters:
http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?t=430511

 

or put a white (or whatever color you want the lettering to be) base coat, then put the stickers on and paint over those, then afterwards just peel off the stickers to reveal the white paint underneath...that way, you'll never have to worry about the stickers peeling or curling...

 

I tried this and it does not work. Go with the decals. They are high temp and work great. I get soooo many compliments on them.

 

what type of clear coats u guys used? i already ordered the stickers and g2 kit is sittin here !

 

Are there any "how to's" that deal with painting the calipers? It doens't look like it would be a hard job but I wouldn't want to take a chance of messing up their function.

@jsmithsole: I like the silver you used. I've got a liquid silver '04 and may do the calipers silver too.

 

I have detailed pics of my brake painting. Ill make a sticky for it and have Nismo post it.

 

if you go to the caliper paint section of a auto shop, it should be there along with the other colors, but its clear.. high temp clear lacquer...

 

thanks a lot tek niq. i was lookin for a brush on clear coat since its a lot easier. i guess ill give the spray a try and mask other areas.....

i will be doin this today