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Adz2332 Grand Master

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Hey all,

Pulled off my wheels to re-paint the brembos on my 33 GTR and the front driver has a a couple cracks in it.

Wasnt until i started spraying them red that i noticed the cracks. The black covered it up.

Has any one had this happen before?

Whats the chances of getting a single caliper?

Anyone know where to start looking?

Are any other models or different cars even that run the same brembos??

Is it just heat that causes it??

Thanks

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As above, looks like it has a fair few layers of paint on it. And usually it's the old paint that shows cracks like that.

The second pic is where the two halves of the caliper are joined together, not a crack :)

Ronin 09 Grand Master

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not a good result.

i suggest that alarm bells should have been ringing when the bleed nipples, pistons and piston seals were all covered in that shit red paint.

bin.

Edit: did they come on the car or did you buy them. There's a fair amount of meat removed - i personally wouldn't be confident continuing to use these calipers.

Adz2332 Grand Master

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Oh no they were black. I didn't notice until I started rubbing back. Again didn't take any notice. I sprayed it red and because of the colour saw the cracking lines. So rubbed it back to metal to find body filler. Got out the hammer and screw driver. Gave it a hit and out popped body filler.

Have since finished the other 3 and they are fine.

Very weird.

Now I have to find just one!

Ronin 09 Grand Master

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yeah bummer - that's really weird that only one of the front pair is like this.

don't know how you'd go with getting a single; you might need to get a pair and keep the other one for parts if necessary.

plus if you are going to repaint then you don't need something that looks great - maybe you can save some coin there.

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