Brembo Caliper - Overhaul Guide

:thumbupNow i know this is for my Evo....but hopefully will give guys an insight into doing it for Aprilia Brembos any overhaul or colour change.

This may not be the ideal or perfect way to do it, but its the way i decided to do it..

got bored today so decided to get them off my new car and get them cleaned up:inlove

Removed the front calipers from the car, this is how they looked




Removed the pins and spring clip, allowing the pads to be slid out of the caliper




The 4 bolts were removed and the calipers split into two



The inside of each half of the calipers, you can see the dust seals arent in brilliant shape


Using my compressor and blow gun i carefully applied compressed air into the caliper to push the pistons out, using one hand to stop the pistons being blown right out of the caliper


Pulled out the pistons from each caliper


Using a small flat screwdriver, i carefully popped out the dust seals



Then being even more careful the small o-ring seals inside the calipers were removed



With everything removed they looked like this




Blanked off any openings to protet the calipers internals and then shot blasted them to remove any loose paint



Couple of layers of paint later they looked like this irate



While the misses was out in went the calipers :doug



Bought a set of Brembo caliper stickers from a vinyl company who is a friend.:thumbup



Lacquered the calipers with 2 pack lacquer using a compressor and spray gun


Once dry they looked like this


So good luck hope this helps, i will soon be doing my Milles ones so will do another thread about exactly how to do them for the bike.

But hopefully a how to guide for some of ya :thumbup

good luck.

ps mods if you wanna move this to 'How To' feel free:thumbup

:lol: TBH mate i am thinking of doing it for people for some extra money for mods

just going to do mine first then depending upon results will maybe do it for others

ive done it for a lot of the evo owners which paid for mods on my car...now its the bikes turn.

i used plastikote hot paint

will stand up to the abuse and heat they get :lol

just go down to a shop and get a few tester cans....get a bit of matching surface i.e metal or something spray allow to dry and you will see roughly your final colour :thumbup

Gasboy said:

Nice !! Can u paint my front room ? :thumbup

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as soon as i actually get round to doing mine after 2 years :lol ill be round:devious:thumbup

garvey2003 said:

Stupid question but why did you bake them? and what paint is. Looks the nuts.

Got to do my front as some person tried to pain them gold but its not good!

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the Paint is Plastikote high temp paint.

I baked them in the oven to make

1)The paint had dried on the inside aswell as out
2) no patience and it speeds up the process
3) to test the paint up to 150 degrees
4) make sure it had bonded properly

good luck when you decide to do them :thumbup

i only left them a short while mate think it was 30 mins. depends on what temp your paint is....i did 150 degrees purely as these are probably the highest temp it will get up to :thumbup

in my opinion i would get a chair sit there and watch them back....just incase :thumbup