What Did You Do To Your Car Today?

[bandblightfoot]

Guages finally arrived from the states through amazon heaps cheaper than local.

[XtRmn8]

Christmas came early for me and my FG XR6T, the new brake package is all together finally

4 pot Brembo fronts with DBA T3 355mm rotors and PBR upgraded rear calipers (Territory and FPV) with DBA T3 328mm rotors and a set of Safebrake braided brake lines.

Picked up the brake lines for AusPost earlier today and got stuck into doing the rears straight away.

The whole package.

Factory FG rear brakes look ridiculous with big wheels.

Factory rears with the wheel off.

Factory FG rear caliper next to the bigger rear Territory caliper. I bought the rear Territory calipers from a wrecker, cleaned them up and gave them a few coats of caliper paint.

Factory FG rear solid rotor next to DBA T3 vented 328mm rotor.

For anyone doing this upgrade, you will need to trim the backing dust plate that sits behind the rotors to accommodate the bigger calipers. I cut approx 15mm away from each side.

New rotors and caliper all fitted up and brakes bled. I forgot to take the little magnet of the rotor from the one man brake bleed kit in this photo.

Both sides done and wheels back on. Took thge opotunity to wash the inside of the wheel while they were off. The 20's still make the new brakes look small.

I have a few more pictures, if anyone is interested ask away and I will try and answer any questions.

Will do the fronts early on Boxing day I think and update with pictures.

[Jstplyn]

Gave it a good clean and polish, filled in the scratches from where someone took the badges off with a screwdriver before I brought it, looks good with no badges

Edited 24/12/13 08:03 AM by Jstplyn

[arronm]

Did you remember to clean the disc surface to remove transport anti corrosion coating. Interesting you had to cut the backing plate. I didnt need to with 4 piston brembo

[SuckSqueezeBangBlow]

Very roughly,

$350 per amp x2

$100 per set of speakers x2

$150 for sub

$80 for LC2i (stupid thing popped)

And the part that always builds up quickly.... About $300 on various bits and pieces and around 25M of speaker wire, 6M of 4ag power, 2M of 4ag ground, fuses, terminals, mdf, connectors, etc etc.

Never really tallied it. But approx $1500

For me, its better than power mods.

no sound deadener? I always put some on the door skins.

Edited 24/12/13 09:03 AM by SuckSqueezeBangBlow

[XtRmn8]

Did you remember to clean the disc surface to remove transport anti corrosion coating. Interesting you had to cut the backing plate. I didnt need to with 4 piston brembo

Hey Aaron, one photo I did not take was me holding the bigger caliper in place to show how they hit the backing plate (wish I did now). The Territory caliper is a lot wider, you can see in the photo of the two calipers, from the two mounding holes the body is a lot wider at that point. If I did not trim the backing plate it would have pushed the plate against the inner disk face. I am pretty sure it is only necessary to trim the backing plate when going from the small caliper to the Territory or Brembo. Your F6 would have had the bigger Territory caliper from the start?

Here is a better picture of the original rear caliper.

I priced up a set of FG F6 rear backing plates from Covs, but at close to $100 a side I decided to just trim mine.

Got a couple of cans of Bendix brake cleaner (awesome stuff) and cleaned the disks a couple of times, both the brake surface and also the inner handbrake section. Brake cleaner came is handy at the end also to clean everything down so there is no brake fluid anywhere and everything was clean and dry before the wheel went back on.

Also cleaned the hubs with wire brush drill fittings, but they were pretty clean to start. I got a few more photos on my phone with the in-between steps but did not put them all up

Edited 24/12/13 09:34 AM by XtRmn8

[Rab]

Now you've given your car a complex about its arse.

"Do my rears look big in these rotors?"

or, if it's a bloke turbo you've given it a complex about the size of it's (caliper) piston

"I bought the right size rubbers and they swim on me"

add in some witty comments about pads and bedding in and it will refuse to leave the garage.

[arronm]

Brembo are 330mm but the caliper must be shorter. Brembo 330 x 28mm. PBR 328mm x 26mm

Edited 24/12/13 09:44 AM by arronm

[SuckSqueezeBangBlow]

The 20's still make the new brakes look small.

same size brakes with a 17" rim

[discostig]

I found out the hard way about the backing plate going from the small PBR to the larger FPV/Terri size. Was tight to get on and I couldn't hear it rubbing until I cracked the windows a day later. Took it to local brake shop and they cut it away for me after finding my boo-boo! Cost me about $100 I think as well.