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The Inevitable Domino Effect
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<blockquote data-quote="Afterimage" data-source="post: 268247" data-attributes="member: 7676"><p>I vote for getting new calipers in the colour of your choice and pulling off and selling your Gray ones.</p><p></p><p>I did a reply on another message board about PC brake calipers, I wasn't too thrilled with my experience so if you decide to go that route pick a person or shop that will do it PROPERLY. Below is my post on the other MB.</p><p></p><p>"Some things to consider if you decide to PC your yellow calipers to blue or any other colour:</p><p></p><p>Does the shop have a set of the correct calipers done in the colour you want then it's a quick re&re. If you have to send in your calipers for PC they will be rebuilt with new seals and stuff nothing wrong with that but it means your car is out of commission till you get the calipers back. You can plug up the brake line connections but most cases your fluid will leak out and it will be a PITA to rebleed the whole system.</p><p></p><p>I would make sure the shop doing the PC and rebuild does it correctly. That means they get all the sand blast material out of the calipers and clean up all the threads properly and plug up all open ports properly when doing the powder coat.</p><p></p><p>Now in my case, I had a 13 GT500 and they came with Black Brembo calipers, since my car was gray I wanted to change the caliper colour to brighten up the car a bit and for some bling behind my new at the time Forgeline wheels.</p><p></p><p>I picked a local shop to do the powdercoat, since they didn't have caliper cores for my car I had no choice but to pull the calipers and plug up the open brake lines. Well, no matter what I did I could not plug them well enough so the fluid wouldn't leak out. All my brake fluid drained out eventually over the day or 2 I had the car in the air (I planned to do this during the fall when I was storing the car so I wasn't in a rush to get them back). It took the shop about a few weeks to do them, I picked them up and installed them over the winter then had a hell of a time getting the brake fluid through the whole system when I added fluid back in.</p><p></p><p>Once I got everything going for the following spring it seemed to work ok but in the back of my head I always felt that the pedal wasn't like before I did all the work. I even took it to Ford for them to redo the bleeding (always thinking maybe there was air in the ABS unit or something and they can use their equipment to activate the pumps or whatever to get the air out). It felt better afterwards but still not what I remembered.</p><p></p><p>I did a track day with the car and while I didn't have any issue shortly after I noticed a wet spot inside the barrel of my Forgeline wheels, it wasn't water but brake fluid. I quickly pulled the wheels and the pads and sure enough 1 front caliper was seeping brake fluid through the piston seal. I bought 2 caliper rebuilt kits, yanked the front calipers and took them to my friend for him to rebuild them. What I found out after he pulled them apart was that inside the cavities of the caliper where the fluid goes he blew out sand material from the shop sand blasting but didn't totally clean out the caliper properly. My friend got all the crap out, rebuild the calipers for me and I installed them back on and all was well afterwards.</p><p></p><p>So, as you can tell from my experience I wasn't too happy about this happening. The colour looked great after they were done but I was pissed at the sub par job during the process to PC them. I most definitely will not do this again on any car's brake calipers.</p><p></p><p>I wouldn't have a problem PC a bracket or solid item but if the part carries fluid or have cavities for things to go through it I personally would think twice.</p><p></p><p>Tony"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Afterimage, post: 268247, member: 7676"] I vote for getting new calipers in the colour of your choice and pulling off and selling your Gray ones. I did a reply on another message board about PC brake calipers, I wasn't too thrilled with my experience so if you decide to go that route pick a person or shop that will do it PROPERLY. Below is my post on the other MB. "Some things to consider if you decide to PC your yellow calipers to blue or any other colour: Does the shop have a set of the correct calipers done in the colour you want then it's a quick re&re. If you have to send in your calipers for PC they will be rebuilt with new seals and stuff nothing wrong with that but it means your car is out of commission till you get the calipers back. You can plug up the brake line connections but most cases your fluid will leak out and it will be a PITA to rebleed the whole system. I would make sure the shop doing the PC and rebuild does it correctly. That means they get all the sand blast material out of the calipers and clean up all the threads properly and plug up all open ports properly when doing the powder coat. Now in my case, I had a 13 GT500 and they came with Black Brembo calipers, since my car was gray I wanted to change the caliper colour to brighten up the car a bit and for some bling behind my new at the time Forgeline wheels. I picked a local shop to do the powdercoat, since they didn't have caliper cores for my car I had no choice but to pull the calipers and plug up the open brake lines. Well, no matter what I did I could not plug them well enough so the fluid wouldn't leak out. All my brake fluid drained out eventually over the day or 2 I had the car in the air (I planned to do this during the fall when I was storing the car so I wasn't in a rush to get them back). It took the shop about a few weeks to do them, I picked them up and installed them over the winter then had a hell of a time getting the brake fluid through the whole system when I added fluid back in. Once I got everything going for the following spring it seemed to work ok but in the back of my head I always felt that the pedal wasn't like before I did all the work. I even took it to Ford for them to redo the bleeding (always thinking maybe there was air in the ABS unit or something and they can use their equipment to activate the pumps or whatever to get the air out). It felt better afterwards but still not what I remembered. I did a track day with the car and while I didn't have any issue shortly after I noticed a wet spot inside the barrel of my Forgeline wheels, it wasn't water but brake fluid. I quickly pulled the wheels and the pads and sure enough 1 front caliper was seeping brake fluid through the piston seal. I bought 2 caliper rebuilt kits, yanked the front calipers and took them to my friend for him to rebuild them. What I found out after he pulled them apart was that inside the cavities of the caliper where the fluid goes he blew out sand material from the shop sand blasting but didn't totally clean out the caliper properly. My friend got all the crap out, rebuild the calipers for me and I installed them back on and all was well afterwards. So, as you can tell from my experience I wasn't too happy about this happening. The colour looked great after they were done but I was pissed at the sub par job during the process to PC them. I most definitely will not do this again on any car's brake calipers. I wouldn't have a problem PC a bracket or solid item but if the part carries fluid or have cavities for things to go through it I personally would think twice. Tony" [/QUOTE]
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