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shadoquad 06-04-2012 09:46 AM

looks good :tup:

b1adesofcha0s 06-04-2012 09:47 AM

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Originally Posted by shadoquad (Post 1752987)
looks good :tup:

Thanks Al. Hope your dinner survived in the car yesterday :tup:

370ZDatsun 06-05-2012 04:38 AM

May I make a suggestion. Cut the white piece of the tinted tail light. It'll give it a better look and you will be able to see the white light when backing up better. I do have a question. When lowering did you do simply springs, and if so do the tires wear on the inside/outside in even?

b1adesofcha0s 06-05-2012 07:51 AM

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Originally Posted by 370ZDatsun (Post 1754451)
May I make a suggestion. Cut the white piece of the tinted tail light. It'll give it a better look and you will be able to see the white light when backing up better. I do have a question. When lowering did you do simply springs, and if so do the tires wear on the inside/outside in even?

Well the tail lights are painted so I can't really cut anything out. I thought about doing it like that at first, but I like this look better. The led lights in the tail lights are bright enough that there is absolutely no problem seeing them through the paint. They are actually brighter with the paint than most other cars that don't have led tail lights.

For lowering, I just did the Swift springs. Haven't really checked the tire wear in a while, but that should depend on the camber settings for your alignment. With negative camber, I think the inside of the tires should wear faster than the outside, but how much different they are depends how far out your camber is. Some one please correct me if I'm wrong about this.

b1adesofcha0s 06-05-2012 11:29 AM

These pics didn't come out that good. I'll try to get some better ones at some point. Also I updated my first post and added the brake mods to the list.

http://i1203.photobucket.com/albums/...z/IMAG1312.jpg

http://i1203.photobucket.com/albums/...z/IMAG1313.jpg

ZCarMan 06-05-2012 05:15 PM

Nice job Shahid!

sixpax 06-05-2012 05:39 PM

Calipers look great man ! I bought the stuff to do mine, when you coming over ? :tup:

b1adesofcha0s 06-05-2012 05:48 PM

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Originally Posted by ZCarMan (Post 1755613)
Nice job Shahid!

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Originally Posted by sixpax (Post 1755652)
Calipers look great man ! I bought the stuff to do mine, when you coming over ? :tup:

Thanks guys!

Just a heads up Craig, you'll need 2 cans each of the paint and the brake cleaner. Have fun :tup:

The red brakes really stand out from far away, especially with the dark colored wheels.

sixpax 06-05-2012 07:05 PM

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Originally Posted by b1adesofcha0s (Post 1755670)
Thanks guys!

Just a heads up Craig, you'll need 2 cans each of the paint and the brake cleaner. Have fun :tup:

The red brakes really stand out from far away, especially with the dark colored wheels.

I'm never one to mess with superior experience and technical skills. I figured you might be cool doing mine. I could watch and learn. :tup:

b1adesofcha0s 06-05-2012 07:16 PM

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Originally Posted by sixpax (Post 1755745)
I'm never one to mess with superior experience and technical skills. I figured you might be cool doing mine. I could watch and learn. :tup:

You might want to talk to Rob about that. I did essentially the same thing. He taught me how to take off one caliper then I took off the rest myself. If I ran into any issues I just asked him for help. I want to learn how to do all of this work on my car on my own and both Rob and Kirk have been amazingly helpful with that. Thanks a lot guys :tiphat:

sixpax 06-05-2012 07:18 PM

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Originally Posted by b1adesofcha0s (Post 1755760)
You might want to talk to Rob about that. I did essentially the same thing. He taught me how to take off one caliper then I took off the rest myself. If I ran into any issues I just asked him for help. I want to learn how to do all of this work on my car on my own and both Rob and Kirk have been amazingly helpful with that. Thanks a lot guys :tiphat:

Well that's me too. I have never taken a caliper off a car in my life, much less paint it. First time for everything I guess ... really looks good dude. Kudo's to those guys for helping out and teaching you stuff. :tup:

b1adesofcha0s 06-07-2012 01:27 PM

Here are some better pics, but I still can't seem to get good lighting for a decent side shot.

http://i1203.photobucket.com/albums/...z/IMAG1316.jpg

http://i1203.photobucket.com/albums/...z/IMAG1317.jpg

http://i1203.photobucket.com/albums/...z/IMAG1318.jpg

http://i1203.photobucket.com/albums/...z/IMAG1319.jpg

http://i1203.photobucket.com/albums/...z/IMAG1320.jpg

b1adesofcha0s 06-07-2012 10:29 PM

Finally got my brakes working properly. The new brake setup has WAY more stopping power than before. My car's stopping power is now limited by my tires and not my brakes. Any hard braking and the ABS kicks in. They are louder and a lot more dusty, but I can teal with that even as my DD. HIGHLY recommend this to everyone with the stock pads. A great way to upgrade your braking power without having to pay $1k-2k for a sport package upgrade.

b1adesofcha0s 06-07-2012 10:47 PM

Also if you want to consider it a "mod", I pulled the steering lock fuse from my car today. No more worrying about the steering lock failing :woot:

Alchemy 06-08-2012 07:18 AM

Nice work, Shahid. Car is looking good:tup: Id really love to get my calipers powdercoated. Your paint job came out looking pretty nice though. I actually did the same thing to the calipers on my 1990 300zx. Also, congrats on the improved stopping power!


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