Painted Calipers *pics* - Page 2

pdxhak · 2007-02-22 00:53:56

this has to be the best bang for your buck aesthetic mod you can do to the RX-8. I did painted mine red on my Ti and have actually gotten the comment "Those red brakes just make it look so fast" three different times. My mom even commented on them when she was driving next to me on the highway. I was thinking about going red with my Ti - how does it look? do you have a pic?

11-06-2007, 11:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Proxi

Yup, 2006's come with silver'd calipers (my 8 is an 06). But I still hate that the rotors get rusty when they get wet or when the brakes squeek after being left out in the rain or cold. Those problems been bothering me a bit so my next upgrade for my 8 with be a new set of rotors and brake pads. Just upgraded my exhaust with the MazdaSpeed dual exhaust last weekend so it'll be a few months before I can pony up a new set of brake rotors and pads.

Awesome job on the calipers by the way.

Just pull the pads out and apply anti-squeal compound liberally to both sides of the backing plate (not the friction surface, obviously). Most of the squealing is actually the pad and backing plate rubbing back and forth and very high frequency. Unfortunately, you wont get rid of all of it, no matter what you do. Since they're not allowed to use asbestos in brake pads any more, the new compounds and composites they're dreaming up aren't quite as smooth. One of the unique properties of asbestos, and the reason it was used so heavily in brake pads, is that it's sliding friction increases very progressively. Most modern composites either have lots of friction, or they don't, so your pad grabs and releases at VERY high frequencies, causing it to slide against the backing plate and caliper, creating the squealing. The 8 is simply worse about it because our brakes provide TREMENDOUS stopping power.

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